Analytical form in the Vita (Passio) Ionae et Barachisii
Posted: September 28th, 2013, 10:36 am
Dear all,
(I wasn't sure where to post this, feel free to move it to another section)
I am new in the forum and my main language is not Greek but Old (Church) Slavonic. I am currently working on passives & passive-like structures in early Slavonic texts and am trying to compare the structure of the Slavonic text to the one of the Greek prototype. I read your middle-passive discussions and was really pleased because the situation in early Slavonic texts seem to be quite similar.
Currently, I have a (probably) very basic question on the structure ἦσαν ἀνατραπέντες in the following sentence:
a. Καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ἔλεγον, ὅτι, οἱ ἐννέα ἄνδρες ἐκεῖνοι διὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἐπείσθησαν τῷ δόγματι, τὸν βασιλέως, ὅτι, ὑπὸ τούτων τῶν δύο ἦσαν ἀνατραπέντες .
Cf. http://www.suprasliensis.obdurodon.org/ ... r129r.html (lines 1-4)
I had the impression that ἀνατραπέντες is an aor. part.
First, I thought this would be some kind of analytical / periphrastic pluperfect – but this would be rendered by means of an imperfect verb to-be + a perfect participle, wouldn't it? The only solution I could currently think of is that the aor. part. has a meaning which is similar to a part. perf. Any suggestions?
Mirjam
(I wasn't sure where to post this, feel free to move it to another section)
I am new in the forum and my main language is not Greek but Old (Church) Slavonic. I am currently working on passives & passive-like structures in early Slavonic texts and am trying to compare the structure of the Slavonic text to the one of the Greek prototype. I read your middle-passive discussions and was really pleased because the situation in early Slavonic texts seem to be quite similar.
Currently, I have a (probably) very basic question on the structure ἦσαν ἀνατραπέντες in the following sentence:
a. Καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ἔλεγον, ὅτι, οἱ ἐννέα ἄνδρες ἐκεῖνοι διὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἐπείσθησαν τῷ δόγματι, τὸν βασιλέως, ὅτι, ὑπὸ τούτων τῶν δύο ἦσαν ἀνατραπέντες .
Cf. http://www.suprasliensis.obdurodon.org/ ... r129r.html (lines 1-4)
I had the impression that ἀνατραπέντες is an aor. part.
First, I thought this would be some kind of analytical / periphrastic pluperfect – but this would be rendered by means of an imperfect verb to-be + a perfect participle, wouldn't it? The only solution I could currently think of is that the aor. part. has a meaning which is similar to a part. perf. Any suggestions?
Mirjam