Ghost of Christmas Future Imperfect Conditional
Posted: December 17th, 2015, 12:49 pm
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Are we to assume that you got this directly from the volume, Greek Grammar So Far Beyond the Basics that You'd Never Have Guessed It in Your Wildest Imagination?Jonathan Robie wrote:
I'm somewhat confused about the syntactical function of ἄν here; Is it intended to imply, "I would have told you ... "? or "those who would never have repented"? I take it does not refer to the final phrase and mean "things things that would have happened." I suspect we have a case here of the fallacy of the inclusive ἁν.Stephen Hughes wrote:How about this for a translation?
- Ἰδοὺ εἶπον ἡμῖν τοῖς μὴ μετανοήσασι ἄν τὰ ἐπιγενησόμενα.
That's the funniest thing I've read on B-Greek for a long time ...cwconrad wrote:Are we to assume that you got this directly from the volume, Greek Grammar So Far Beyond the Basics that You'd Never Have Guessed It in Your Wildest Imagination?
Perhaps we should take this further in the composition sub-forum. The fate of ἄν in syntactic transforms from conditional sentences to articular participles?cwconrad wrote:I'm somewhat confused about the syntactical function of ἄν here; Is it intended to imply, "I would have told you ... "? or "those who would never have repented"? I take it does not refer to the final phrase and mean "things things that would have happened." I suspect we have a case here of the fallacy of the inclusive ἁν.Stephen Hughes wrote:How about this for a translation?
- Ἰδοὺ εἶπον ἡμῖν τοῖς μὴ μετανοήσασι ἄν τὰ ἐπιγενησόμενα.
cwconrad wrote:Are we to assume that you got this directly from the volume, Greek Grammar So Far Beyond the Basics that You'd Never Have Guessed It in Your Wildest Imagination?