[B-Greek] Acts 22,6
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Apr 9 06:35:43 EDT 2004
At 7:40 PM -0700 4/8/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>EGENETO DE MOI POREUOMENWi KAI EGGIZONTI THi DAMASKWi
>PERI MESHMBRIAN EXAIFNHS EK TOU OURANOU PERIASTRAYAI
>FWS hIKANON PERI EME
>
>Culy/Parsons note that the two participles,
>POREUOMENWi KAI EGGIZONTI, cannot be adverbial since
>they have no verb to modify (EGENETO and PERIASTRAYAI
>have different subjects), although they do give them a
>"temporal" translation. Any suggestions as to how
>these function syntactically?
They are certainly adverbial participials, that is to say circumstantial
participles: "It happened to me when I was traveling and nearing Damascus
...".
I suppose this could be a quibble, but participles always agree with a
substantive or pronoun; participles could be classified in terms of their
function as substantival (hO TRECWN, "the one who runs"), adjectival (TOUS
DOULOUS TOUS APODIDRASKONTAS, "the slaves who are running away") or
adverbial (hOI DOULOI hEALWSAN APODIDRAASKONTES, "the slaves were
apprehended as they were running away"). Adverbial participles may also be
called "circumstantial" participles. So POREUOMENWi and EGGIZONTI are
certainly not adverbs, but how it could be said that they are not
"adverbial" I don't understand.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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