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by cwconrad
June 13th, 2011, 4:49 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Double Negatives (was John 14:30)
Replies: 19
Views: 5785

Re: Double Negatives (was John 14:30)

Regarding the spacing of words from their modifiers, what about this from the Anabasis? ἀναβαίνει οὖν ὁ Κῦρος λαβὼν Τισσαφέρνην ὡς φίλον, καὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἔχων ὁπλίτας ἀνέβη τριακοσίους , ἄρχοντα δὲ αὐτῶν Ξενίαν Παρράσιον. (Anabasis 1.1.2) Here we don't have an adverbial or any type of modifier of t...
by cwconrad
June 12th, 2011, 9:24 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: ὅτου
Replies: 1
Views: 1707

Re: ὅτου

Funk in section 271 says the following about ὅστις: 271. The indefinite relative is ὅστις, ἥτις, ὅ τι, whoever, whatever. It is compounded from ὅς and τις, both of which are declined. It appears, however, only in the following forms: Singular M F N N ὅστις ἥτις ὅ τι A ὅ τι Plural M F N N οἵτινες αἵ...
by cwconrad
June 10th, 2011, 7:42 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Mark 10:36 Τί θέλετέ [με] ποιήσω ὑμῖν;
Replies: 34
Views: 29438

Re: Mark 10:36 Τί θέλετέ [με] ποιήσω ὑμῖν;

There's a good deal of talk (I've done my share) about Mark's "oddball" Greek; nobody talks about solecisms, so far as I know, but there are several passages that are similar to this one in that they are perfectly intelligible Greek -- there's really no missing or added meaning, I think w...
by cwconrad
June 9th, 2011, 9:41 am
Forum: Seen on the Web
Topic: Beginning to Think in Greek
Replies: 1
Views: 1033

Beginning to Think in Greek

I'm not sure that Michael Gilleland's blog entitled "Laudator Temporis Acti" has been mentioned among blogs with frequent Greek (sometimes Biblical Greek) content: http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/ -- the title is from Horace's (Ars Poetica) phrase describing the typical aged man -...
by cwconrad
June 9th, 2011, 7:05 am
Forum: Other
Topic: More Greek Manuscripts Digitised by the British Library
Replies: 1
Views: 13020

More Greek Manuscripts Digitised by the British Library

The following announcement was posted this morning to the old B-Greek mailing list by Sophie Arp at the British Library: Phase two of the British Library’s project to digitise all of its ca. 1,000 Greek manuscripts is now well under way. This phase (also generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Fou...
by cwconrad
June 9th, 2011, 6:59 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Mark 10:36 Τί θέλετέ [με] ποιήσω ὑμῖν;
Replies: 34
Views: 29438

Re: Mark 10:36 Τί θέλετέ [με] ποιήσω ὑμῖν;

No, I think the intent is rather, "You want - me - I should do what thing for you?" That is, it's the equivalent of τί θέλετέ με ποιῆσαι ὑμῖν; The subjunctive clause is indeed a ἵνα clause with the ἵνα omitted as it often is in what I previously referred to as "substantive result clau...
by cwconrad
June 8th, 2011, 10:45 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Double Negatives (was John 14:30)
Replies: 19
Views: 5785

Re: Double Negatives (was John 14:30)

Rightly or wrongly, I have always thought of adjectives in what old-fashioned grammarians called the alternative predicate position (e.g. ὁ ἀνὴρ ὁ ἀγαθός) as a sort of appositive addition: "the man, i.e. the good one"; some prefer to describe this as a kind of relative clause: "the m...
by cwconrad
June 8th, 2011, 10:12 am
Forum: Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
Topic: Chrysostom on Interpretation
Replies: 1
Views: 1390

Re: Chrysostom on Interpretation

This bit comes from Chrysostom's commentary on Galatians . I thought it might interest some readers. Below I have a few questions and comments. Τοῦτο τοίνυν ποιῶμεν. Οὐδὲ γὰρ δεῖ τὰ ῥήματα γυμνὰ ἐξετάζειν, ἐπεὶ πολλὰ ἕψεται τὰ ἁμαρτήματα· οὐδὲ τὴν λέξιν καθ' ἑαυτὴν βασανίζειν, ἀλλὰ τῇ διανοίᾳ προσέ...
by cwconrad
June 8th, 2011, 6:48 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Mark 10:36 Τί θέλετέ [με] ποιήσω ὑμῖν;
Replies: 34
Views: 29438

Re: Mark 10:36 Τί θέλετέ [με] ποιήσω ὑμῖν;

There's a consensus, I think, that the bracketed enclitic με is the problem, not the construction τί θέλετε ποιήσω ὑμῖν; There's a good deal of talk (I've done my share) about Mark's "oddball" Greek; nobody talks about solecisms, so far as I know, but there are several passages that are si...
by cwconrad
June 7th, 2011, 7:58 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Passive Imperative
Replies: 12
Views: 21322

Re: Passive Imperative

Two (sets of) questions. First, Carl, did you mean that all m/p imperatives are really middle, or just the ones I listed? I would say that imperatives as such must express an urgency for someone or something to happen; I think that has to mean that the imperative to act must rest upon the subject o...

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