[B-Greek] "gnomic" masculine
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 27 18:11:44 EDT 2008
On Jun 26, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Carl Conrad wrote:
> A nameless sage has called my attention to a reason why this usage
> of the masculine adjective/participle might almost as well be termed
> a "sententious" masculine:
> " τίκτω (TIKTW)can be used for either parent. So the assertion
> that the referent must be "women, exclusively" is not quite right.
> It's not necessarily the child that one has borne, but one that one
> has produced/engendered."
Thank you Carl and nameless sage,
I took one more look at Cooper and perhaps I have once again missed
his intent. I suspect he was just pointing out that the referent in
this particular case was obviously a woman not that the language used
restricted the possible reference to women only.
Elizabeth Kline
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