Quote Originally Posted by Боб Уайтман View Post
This is not dative. "С голоду" = "с голода", this is somewhat archaic form of Genitive (с чего?). Not so archaic, we can still see some traces of it in the modern language.
I can recall just now several constructions of that type. I think they are semantically close to the adverbs (or maybe the are adverbs?)
Выпалить (сказать) с ходу (нельзя "с хода") - но "уйти с прохода" и "не давать проходу"
С пылу с жару - ну это выражение
С разбегу, с лёту