What is the opposite of a deponent?

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Mon Dec 6 09:52:57 EST 1999


To: Carl W. Conrad,

Thank you for your very learned reply, I greatly appreciate it. And yes, 
"reponent" was more tongue-in-cheek than serious. When I'm reading the 
Greek text these issues don't stick out like they do when I'm reading a 
lexicon.

I have a follow up question. For NT uses of AGALLIAW, we have the aorist 
HGALLIASA and aorist passive HGALLIAQHN (and I think I've seen somewhere 
also the form HGALLIASQHN, but off hand I'm not for sure). But my question 
is this. In the LXX we also have the (deponent) future: AGALLIASOMAI. If 
someone was preparing a chart of the principal parts of irregular or 
important verbs covering both the NT and the LXX, should the future be 
listed as AGALLIASW or AGALLIASOMAI? After all, some active verbs have only 
middle futures, yes? Does anyone know if AGALLIASW was used in Byzantine 
Greek and whether or not it ever developed an active future?

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Disclaimer: "I'm just a simple house-husband (with no post-grad degree), 
what do I know?"




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