hendiadys

From: Brian E. Wilson (brian@twonh.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 01 1997 - 14:32:00 EDT


Carl wrote:

>I think "thoughts and imaginations" is a nice little hendiadys, or
>synonymous pair, or redundant expression (you pick the right term for
>it). It is not an economical expression, to be sure, but it has a nice
>ring to it, seems to round out to thoroughness the simple notion that
>the two words together point to.

The Gospel of Mark contains dozens of instances of a hendiadys -

1:42 APHLQEN AP AUTOU hH LEPRA KAI EKAQERISQH
2:25 XREIAN ESXEN KAI EPEINASEN
3:26 OU DUNATAI STHNAI ALLA TELOJ EXEI
4:5 TO PETRWDEJ hOPOU KAI OUK EIXEN GHN POLLHN
5:15 TON DAIMONIZOMENON ...TON ESXHKOTA TON LEGIWNA
5:19 EIJ TON OIKON SOU PROJ TOUJ SOUS - and so on, and so on.

The explanation I have for the above is apparently deemed not
appropriate for discussion on this list :(

Perhaps someone else knows a non-controversial reason which can be
posted ;)

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