[B-Greek] GINOMAI - Aorist and Aorist Passive
Eric Weiss
eweiss at gte.net
Wed Dec 10 11:11:49 EST 2003
Thanks, Carl. I've read part of your paper and filed it away for future reference when I decide the best way(s) to explain to my class the current way-too-late-but-much-needed discussion on "deponent" verbs.
My upcoming midterm has a parsing/translation exercise which has both EGENOMHN and EGENHQEN, and in a way it will be kind of a "trick" question for them, because they'll have to wrack their brains a bit to conclude that the translation is the same -- so I wanted to make sure that my conclusion that they WERE the same in translation was correct.
From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
At 7:47 AM -0600 12/10/03, Eric Weiss wrote:
>Is there any translation or meaning difference between GINOMAI
>in the aorist and in the aorist passive? I.e., does
In a word: NO!
In the appendix to my paper of last November, "New Observations on Ancient
Greek Voice," pp. 16-21 I have attempted to demonstrate precisely that
proposition; using BDAG's catalog of meanings and derivative sub-senses for
GINOMAI, I examined aorist middles in EGENOMHN, etc. and aorist "passives"
in EGENHQHN and found that there is no discernible difference in usage
between the middle and "passive" morphoparadigm. The simple fact is that
EGENOMHN remained in such common everyday use that it is one of the last
Greek verbs to develop a -QH- morphoparadigm. There is no difference in
meaning between the two; rather EGENHQHN came slowly to supplant EGENOMHN
in the aorist; that process is underway in the GNT and LXX but hasn't
reached its end-point. EGENOMHN and EGENHQHN are concurrent forms of the
aorist middle-passive. My paper is accessible at:
http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/Docs/NewObsAncGrkVc.pdf
or:
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/docs/NewObsAncGrkVc.pdf
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
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