Mark 1:6a
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Dec 7 07:00:59 EST 2002
At 7:41 PM -0800 12/6/02, B. D. Colt wrote:
>Mark 1:6a
>KAI HN hO IWANNHS ENDEDUMENOS TRICAS
>KAMHLOU KAI ZWNHN DERMATINHN PERI THN
>OSFUN AUTOU . . .
>
>The morphological information in Logos indicates that ENDEDUMENOS is
>a passive participle. If the participle is passive, why are TRICAS
>and ZWNEN DERMATINEN is the accusative?
I have read through all the responses up to this time to this query and
would simply affirm what Iver, who has accepted my designations of
MAI/SAI/TAI;MHN/SO/TO and -QH- morphoparadigms as MP1 AND MP2 respectively,
that we ought not to consider ENDEDUMENOS HN as passive at all but rather
as a periphrasatic pluperfect middle, the participle taking the MP1 form;
an inelegant English version would be something like, "and John had put
upon himself camel's hair(s) and a leather belt about his waist." This
usage of an accusative direct object of a middle verb is by no means
uncommon, and it is the explanation for all those Latin so-called "Greek
accusatives" such as
manus juvenem ... post terga revinctum (Vergil, Aen. 2.57)
"a young man having had his hands bound behind his back"
I discuss this construction §3.4 "Direct objects of passive verbs?" in my
_New Observations on Ancient Greek Voice_:
http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/Docs/NewObsAncGrkVc.pdf
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Carl W. Conrad
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