[B-Greek] More basil questions.. AF hOU GEGONASIN ANQRWPOI TWi LOGWi
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Fri Jul 2 10:20:16 EDT 2004
I am having some difficulty with translating part of a sentence from the 2nd
chapter of PROS TOUS NEOUS hOPWS AN EX hELLHNIKWN WFELOINTO LOGWN:
.. hOTI PASAN hOMOU THN AF hOU GEGONASIN ANQRWPOI TWi LOGWi TIS SULLABWN KAI
EIS hEN AQROISAS EUDAIMONIAN ..
The particular difficulty is with AF hOU GEGONASIN ANQRWPOI TWi LOGWi.
Basicly I have this: "that anyone who collected together and gathered into
one all fortune from ???"
I couldn't really notice an antecedent for hOU, so best I can figure it is
neuter in a general sense (Liddel and Scott on perseus say this can happen
in Attic; also has EX hOU as 'from the time when', perhaps AF hOU is doing
the same thing?).
So if I have "from the time when men came into being", I am still not sure
what to do with Twi LOGWi.. Is it 'by the word'? In the two translations I
found on the net for this passage, there wasn't much hint as to what it did
with TWi LOGWi.
More help for this novice please?
:-)
Craig Johnson
Brisbane, Australia
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