mood of PLATUNAI in Gen 9.27 (corr.)
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Nov 18 15:50:38 EST 2002
At 3:32 PM -0500 11/18/02, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>At 10:33 AM -0500 11/18/02, Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:
>>In a message dated 11/18/02 1:23:26 AM, slovullo at mac.com writes:
>>
>>>In Gen 9.27 Accordance tags PLATUNAI as present active indicative. If
>>>memory serves me right, though, this is an aorist active optative. In
>>>this case PLATUNAI would be a voluntative optative and PLATUNAI hO QEOS
>>>
>>>TWi IAFEQ would mean something like, "May God make room for Japheth."
>>>Does this seem right?
>>
>>Steven, I agree with you. I encourage to send this to Gramcord as we have
>>discovered several such mis-locations for the LXX. They are making
>>corrections.
>>
>>This is one of those places where accents help. Normally when the last two
>>letters of a word are AI, it is considered short but not in this case. This
>>marks it as Aor. act. opt. 3rd sing. The accent distinguishes it from
>>PLA/TUNAI (mid. second sing) and PLATU=NAI (act inf). The loss of the Sigma
>>due to the liquid Nu creates the difficulties of location.
>
>Wouldn't the middle 2nd sg. aor. be PLATU/NW?
Er,... make that EPLATU/NW (assuming it's the indicative of which you're
speaking; the optative 2nd sg. mid. would, I think, be PLATU/NAIO --if
there were one--but in fact, this verb exemplifies the principle I've
discussed frequently here: the optative would in fact be PLATUNQEI'HS, if
it appeared at all; in this verb aorist EPLATUNQHN and future PLATUNQHSOMAI
have supplanted older middle aorist and future forms EPLANTUNAMHN and
PLATUNOUMAI.
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Carl W. Conrad
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