PROS

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun May 23 13:56:06 EDT 1999


Evidently a misunderstanding here,

At 8:00 AM -0400 5/23/99, Jim West wrote:
>At 06:21 AM 5/23/99 -0400, CWC wrote:
>
>>I've looked at other answers to this, and although none is really wrong,
>>there's a dimension of PROS that, in my opinion, throws the differences
>>into a context:
>
>[very informative info snipped]
>
>true, of course, that pros has a range of meanings.  Properly speaking,
>though, it is a directional preposition rather than a symbiotic one.  So,
>what use does "sun" serve if "pros" means "with"?  Mere synonym?

Sorry, Jim. Since you cited me, I somehow had the impression that you were
taking EXCEPTION to what I had written. I don't think that I suggested
either that PROS was synonymous with SUN. SUN doesn't have the ambiguity of
PROS, and SUN is used with only one case, the instrumental-comitative with
precisely the sense of accompaniment.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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