[B-Greek] PLHRHS

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Apr 30 12:01:59 EDT 2004


At 8:42 AM -0700 4/30/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>Dr. Conrad:
>
>Sorry again. I misunderstood Iver's question. I
>thought he was asking you IF we take PLHRHS as
>INDECLINABLE, could it modify DOXAN. To which I
>thought you said "Hardly." I think I just
>misunderstood Iver's question and therefore I took
>your response wrong.
>
>Now I understand you to say that if we take PLHRHS as
>a two-termination adjective, then the acc. sing. form
>would not be PLHRHS (as Iver was asking), but PLHRH.

Mitch, it's probably just as well to be perfectly clear about this; you've
cited me and understood me correctly in these paragraphs just above. Iver
originally wrote:

>It appears that the masculine and feminine forms are the same for this
>adjective, and we seem to have an accusative PLHRHS in
>Acts 6:5 KAI EXELEXANTO STEFANON, ANDRA PLHRHS PISTEWS...
>
>The accusative in 2 John 1:8 is PLHRH, but in Mark 4:28 both PLHRH and
>PLHRHS are well attested. Is this an example of the language in flux or
>PLHRHS just a special case? BAGD says that "In some of the passages already
>mentioned PLHRHS is indecl."
>
>Could PLHRHS in John 1:14 possibly be an accusative (feminine), and
>therefore relate to DOXAN?

Note that Iver said nothing about PLHRHS as an indeclinable adjective; he
may have meant to say that, but I took his meaning to be that PLHRHS was a
two-termination adjective; my initial response was that PLHRHS as a
qualifier of ANDRA or DOXAN could not possibly be understood as an
accusative form of a 2-termination adjective but ONLY as an indeclinable
adjective.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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