Temporal Adj in nominative

Richard Ghilardi qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Mon Aug 12 02:09:32 EDT 2002


Dear B-greekers,

On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:25:18 -0700 c stirling bartholomew
<cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net> writes:
> Temporal Adj.  in nominative
> 
> Homer (Monro #162) and Classical Greek (Smyth #1042) both use an 
> idiom which
> sounds strange to native speakers of English. It is an adjective 
> which
> appears to limit the predicate like an adverb (e.g. temporal)  but 
> it agrees
> in case, and number with the subject.
> 
> There are a few cases of this in the NT (see A.T. Robertson p. 657).
> 

Isn't the old Greek saying,

hON hOI QEOI FILOUSIN, APOQNHiSKEI NEOS

also an example of this? NEOS is an adverbial (of manner?) in agreement
with the implied subject of APOQNHiSKEI. Have I misunderstood you, Clay?

Yours in His grace,

Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
New Haven, CT USA




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