Antiquitates 15: 260
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Nov 8 08:30:05 EST 2002
At 1:13 PM +0000 11/8/02, jwest at highland.net wrote:
>> >taken with the preposition apo - i would render exousia here with
>"inabilit> y".
>> >apo = in + exousia = ability (power, might, etc).
>>
>> I don't understand how APO suddenly becomes negative here as if it were
>> CWRIS or KATA with genitive; I would think rather that it must mean
>> "deriving from."
>
>apo does indeed mean from. couple with exousia it takes on the literal
>meaning
>of "from power". this rather cumbersome phrase in english must then be
>rendered more felicitously by something like "inability". apo serves here
>much
>like an alpha privative.
I guess this is something like your erstwhile argument that META means
"above"; yet I could readily understand APO meaning "away from" with a verb
or adjective indicating separation; with NOMOS in such a phrase as TON AP'
EXOUSIAS NOMON I can't quite see it as "the law apart from authority."
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Carl W. Conrad
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