Redup. in aorist

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Mar 5 10:05:18 EST 2000


At 4:35 AM -0500 3/5/00, Jason Hare wrote:
>On 03/04/00, ""Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros at iol.ie>" wrote:
>« 1 P. 3:18 has the verb PROSAGW in a reduplicated aorist subjunctive
>PROSAGAGHi. »
>
>AGW takes a secondary root for the aorist.  Therefore, AGW is present,
>HGAGON is aorist.  That is why it is a _second_ aorist.  It does not really
>have to do wit reduplication (like the perfect), but with secondary roots.

In fact, there were others in older, particularly Homeric Greek. Here's the
Perseus Smyth ad rem:

448. Reduplication in the Second Aorist.--agô lead forms the second aorist
êg-agon, ag-agô, ag-agoimi, ag-agein, middle êg-agomên. So also ên-enka and
ên-enkon from pherô.

448 D. Hom. has many reduplicated second aorists, as pe-pithon from peithô
(pith-) persuade, keklomên, ke-klomenos from kelomai command, le-lathesthai
from lanthanô (lath-) escape the notice of, pe-phidesthai from pheidomai
(phid-) spare, êr-aron from arariskô (ar-) join, ôr-oron from ornu_mi
arouse. The indicative forms may take the syllabic augment, as in
e-pe-phradon from phrazô (phrad-) tell. From eniptô chide and eru_kô check
come êni_papon and eneni_pon, and êru_kakon.

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