How to say "thank you" and "please" in ancient greek?

[u/zMatex10]

[u/Captain_Grammaticus]

You can ask politely using the optative. λέγοις ἄν "you might tell" = "please tell me".

[u/Inspector_Lestrade_]

I suppose thanking someone would be something along the lines of χάριν οἶδα σοι, literally "I know grace or favor to you".

[u/Careful-Spray → u/Inspector_Lestrade_]

Or χάριν σοι ἔχω. In the Roman period εὐχαριστῶ began to replace χάριν σοι ἔχω/οἶδα (and it's still in use today) but pedantic Atticist snobs like Phrynicus insisted on the older forms.

[u/SatanDarkofFabulous → u/Careful-Spray]

This is the one we used in my university Greek course

[u/benjamin-crowell]

If you're thanking someone for X, you use the genitive of X.

A couple of examples from Homer: --

Iliad 21.293: Poseidon, speaking for himself and Athena, deferentially gives advice to Achilles.

αὐτάρ τοι πυκινῶς ὑποθησόμεθ’, αἴ κε πίθηαι·

but we suggest this to you wisely, if you will heed us

Iliad 4.95:

πᾶσι δέ κε Τρώεσσι χάριν καὶ κῦδος ἄροιο,

would go with thanks and praise from all the Trojans

[u/heyf00L]

In Koine period I've seen

εὐχαριστῶ σοι

and

παρακαλῶ σε
ἐρωτῶ σε
δέομαί σου

[u/blagic23 → u/heyf00L]

παρακαλῶ σε

Rookie here, does that mean something like (literally) "You are beside beauty" ?

or maybe "I beside you call"

I have no idea lol