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As I see it, it's the difference between "another" and "somebody else" -- not so much a semantic distinction as a matter of emphasis in ἑτέρου τινός on the particularity of the other person, between "anyone else" and "someone else."
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
Oh, I get it now. The first τινός is τίς, the second τινός is τις. After reading περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; I was stuck on τίς ... I could have just looked that up.
Jonathan Robie wrote:Oh, I get it now. The first τινός is τίς, the second τινός is τις. After reading περὶ τίνος ὁ προφήτης λέγει τοῦτο; I was stuck on τίς ... I could have just looked that up.
The first one is actually τίνος, not τινός (note the accent).