[B-Greek] Question on Strabo
Kevin W. Woodruff
cierpke at prodigy.net
Tue Aug 3 17:21:57 EDT 2004
Only Books 6-14 of Strabo's Geography are available at
the Perseus site. Ed's query has to do with Book 16
Kevin
--- "George F. Somsel" <gfsomsel at juno.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:22:21 -0500 "Ed Garcia"
> <Ed.Garcia at FHLBTopeka.com>
> writes:
> > To enhance our understanding of Koine, a group of
> friends and I are
> > reading selections from "The Hellenistic Greek
> Reader" by Colwell
> > and
> > Mantey. We came across this passage while reading
> the selection
> > from
> > Strabo.
> >
> > EFH GAR EKEINOS KAI EDIDASKEN hWS OUK ORQWS
> FRONEIN Hoi
> > AIGUPTOI QHRIOIS EIKAZONTES KAI BOSKHMSAI TO
> QEION,
> >
> > Our questions is, why is Hoi AIGUPTOI in the
> nominative? Is
> > this
> > some sort of indirect discourse?
> >
> > In the passage quoted above Strabo is discussing
> what Moses taught
> > though about the Egyptian religion--according to
> his understanding
> > of
> > Moses.
> >
> > According to the Reader this section is taken from
> The Loeb
> > Library,
> > Vol. VII 2. 34-37, 1930.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Ed Garcia
> > Kansas
> >
> > ---
>
> Since I don't have this particular work, I attempted
> to find it on
> Perseus. Either this is not from Strabo's Geography
> (I think it is
> supposed to be), the passage is not quoted
> correctly, or there is a
> problem with Perseus' search facility (a distinct
> pRossibility [yes, I
> intended the "R" as indicating a combination of
> "possible" and
> "probable"]). I really would like to see the entire
> passage before
> attempting any comment. It does, however, appear to
> be indirect
> discourse. See Smyth §2016 ff.
>
> george
> gfsomsel
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