A greek defintion of ERCOMAI
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Jul 10 23:02:59 EDT 2002
Further to Mike Sangrey's question:
At 2:38 PM -0400 7/10/02, Mike Sangrey wrote:
>I just thought of something fun.
>
>How would you define ERCOMAI by using Koine Greek? No English allowed.
>I'm thinking of something like an entry in a 1st century dictionary of
>Koine.
>
>The term `koine' is a poor choice, but I'm thinking primarily about
>limiting the vocabulary to that cited in NT lexicons.
>
>Synonyms and antonyms are allowed, even encouraged, though I suppose we
>would have to borrow terms for `synonym' and `antonym' from
>extra-Biblical vocabulary.
My apologies to Mike and to the list for misunderstanding the nature of his
proposal (I honestly thought that he was trying to find out or help us all
find out something about the meaning or usage of ERCOMAI, which is why I
responded to his question so obtusely and uselessly). I will cite, without
attribution, a message I received from a lurker on the list:
>Well, Mike's expressed agenda is the exercise of defining ERCOMAI in
>Greek. Why not leave it at that? Sounds like a fun exercise for a
>motivated Greek student. Even highly used words in English like "come" and
>"go" have definitions in English dictionaries. What I would like to see is
>Mike's Greek definition of ERCOMAI!
Who goes first? (I've taken my shot and it misfired.)
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Carl W. Conrad
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
Most months:: 1647 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu OR cwconrad at ioa.com
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