[B-Greek] Correct reading of Philo text.......

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Oct 15 19:01:58 EDT 2003


At 3:02 PM -0500 10/15/03, Palm, David wrote:
>Dr. Conrad,
>
>One last question if I may:
>
>hEWS OU PEPRESBEUMEQA,...
>
>The passive surprises me.  You translated "we have NOT presented our
>representation" which seems active.  Why a passive verb here (bracing myself
>for something I should remember......;o)?

Yes, you probably should remember: the form PEPRESBEUMEQA is perfect
middle-passive; in this instance it is pretty clearly MIDDLE in sense.
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Carl W. Conrad
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