[B-Greek] Philo vocabulary question

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Jul 2 08:19:43 EDT 2004


At 7:59 AM -0400 7/2/04, A. Philip Brown II wrote:
>Thanks, Carl.
>
>Of course, I'm aware of crasis, but had never seen it with an article and a
>noun. Does this happen anywhere in the NT?

Sure, although not as frequently as in Attic--and Philo writes a literary
Greek that is much closer to Attic, even if he writes a bit earlier than
the onset of the Atticist movement. You might want to check BDF §§18 (on
crasis specifically in the GNT) and 486 (avoidance of hiatus in Hebrews).
BDF notes TOUNANTION for TO ENANTION, TOUNOMA for TO ONOMA, the possibility
that KATA TAUTA in Lk should be understood as KATA TA AUTA; there's KAN for
KAI AN or KAI EAN, KAGW for KAI EGW, KAMOI for KAI EMOI, KAKEINOS for KAI
EKEINOS ...


>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Carl W. Conrad
>> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 9:06 PM
>> To: A. Philip Brown II
>> Cc: BGreek
>> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Philo vocabulary question
>>
>>
>> At 8:00 PM -0400 7/1/04, A. Philip Brown II wrote:
>> >Sorry to ask this here, but I couldn't figure out this word in Philo:
>> >TOUPIKRANON
>> >
>> >The sentence reads in part (from Loeb): O DE hIEREUS LABWN PROTEINETW TH
>> >GUNAIKI KAI TOUPIKRANON AFELWN, hIN' EPIKRINHTAI GEGUMNWMENH TH
>> KEFALH ...
>> >F. H. Colson's translation: The priest taking the offering hands
>> it to the
>> >woman and removes her kerchief, in order than she may be judged with her
>> >head bared ...
>> >
>> >Obviously, he is translating TOUPIKRANON as 'kerchief,' but I
>> can't find the
>> >word in LSJ. There is a smooth breathing mark over the U,
>> suggesting to me
>> >the possibility of a contraction, but that's all the farther I could get.
>> >
>> >Any help on the lexical form of this word would be appreciated.
>>
>> This is an instance of crasis: TOUPIKRANON = TO EPIKRANON, which LSJ
>> defines as "that which is put on the head, head-dress, cap"--and one can
>> readily recognize the elements of the compouns as EPI- and KERA/KRA from
>> KERAS 'head.' In crasis the final vowel of the first word fuses/mixes with
>> the initial vowel of the second word, usually resulting in a vowel or
>> diphthong comparable to that of ordinary contractions, so that O
>> + E --> OU.
>> --
>>
>> Carl W. Conrad
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Carl W. Conrad
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