two finite verbs in single sentence w/o subordination
Posted: November 14th, 2015, 4:26 pm
One subject, two finite verbs back to back, no conjunction and no subordination. A single sentence? Does this work? Shouldn't we rather assume that a conjunction was withheld to facilitate meter or some other reason? If we are simply talking about a compound sentence there is no problem whatsoever.
It has been recently suggested by a papyroligist that the following from Soph. Ajax might be a single sentence:
It has been recently suggested by a papyroligist that the following from Soph. Ajax might be a single sentence:
Soph. Ajax 59-60
ἐγὼ δὲ φοιτῶντ᾿ ἄνδρα μανιάσιν νόσοις
ὤτρυνον, εἰσέβαλλον εἰς ἕρκη κακά.
And as the man wandered in the madness that afflicted him, I urged him on and drove him into a cruel trap.
Lloyd-Jones 1994
#1 "And as the man ranged to and fro, I urged him with maddening frenzy, and drave him into the evil net."
construing μανιάσιν νόσοις with φοιτῶντα
or
#2 "As he bounded to and fro in frenzy, I urged him and drave him ... "
In the latter case the expression is proleptic.
Lewis Campbell - 1881 (who works from the same text as Lloyd-Jones)