SULLAMBANW active w/dative?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jun 7 13:41:54 EDT 1999
At 10:04 AM -0700 6/7/99, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
>Is SULLAMBANW active (not middle) ever found with a substantive in the
>dative case where it means seize or arrest?
>
>I am trying to make sense out of one of the "obvious errors" in Codex
>Bezae, Acts 17:18 which replaces SUNEBALLON with SUNELABON. I know that
>making sense out of "obvious errors" is a dubious exercise but then
>reading Codex Bezae is a dubious exercise as well.
>
Seems possible, at least:
PERSEUS LSJ: s.v. SULLAMBANW VI. c. dat. pers., take pert with another,
assist him, ou tois athumois hê tuchê x. S.Fr.927, cf. Eur. Med. 813, Hdt.
6.125, etc.; ta dunata têi polei x. Aristoph. Eccl. 861; s. tisi ti take
part with or assist them in a thing, IDEM=Aristoph. Lys. 540 (lyr.), Xen.
Cyrop. 7.5.49, etc.; s. tini tinos Eur. Med. 946, Aristoph. Wasps 734
(lyr.); s. tini tini Dem. 18.20: with a Prep., sunelabe gar alla . . es to
peithesthai contributed towards persuading, Hdt. 7.6, cf. Xen. Mem. 2.6.28:
abs., assist, Aesch. Lib. 812 (lyr.), Soph. Trach. 1019 (lyr.), Aristoph.
Kn. 229, Thuc. 1.118; dei de xullambanonta tous theous epikaleesthai while
invoking the gods one must help oneself, Hp.Insomn.87.
>There is another "obvious error" which is hard to read in this verse,
>the replacement of hOI DE with OIDEN. I didn't find anyway to make sense
>out of that one, but the SUNELABON reading seemed to hover on the
>boundary of intelligibility with the exception of the dative pronoun
>AUTWi.
Perhaps hOI DEN for "they didn't/don't ..." (I don't know when DEN became
the standard Greek negative particle that it is today (from OUDEN). NO, I
frankly don't think that's where it came from.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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