Greek employs an aorist active participle (ὑμνήσαντες, 'having sung a hymn') coordinated with the main verb; Syriac uses a finite verb in coordination (ܘܫܒܚܘ, 'and they praised/sang'); Latin uses an ablative absolute construction (hymno dicto, 'a hymn having been said'). All three express temporal anteriority but through different syntactic strategies.