[B-Greek] DECOISQE in Basil

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Sat Jun 5 07:13:39 EDT 2004


At 08:14 05/06/2004, newsgroupstuff at swiftdsl.com.au wrote:

>Hi. Just joined!
>
>I am learning Greek and trying to translate some Basil (TO YOUNG MEN ON THE
>RIGHT USE OF GREEK LITERATURE). I'm struggling because my Greek is so rusty,
>plus the vocab or usage which is outside the NT.
>
>At the moment I have become stuck trying to parse one word in the first
>chapter: DECOISQE. Can someone help with the parsing of this? Is it from
>DECOMAI or something else? Ususally I have used perseus morphological
>analysis when I get stuck, but it doesn't seem to be working lately.

Craig:
If you've just joined, you would have missed a posting from Carl Conrad, 
and myself, on May 28 re:

 >> Forwarded for: Gonzalo "Diaz" <kalos_listas at yahoo.com>

Hi,

  We just wanted to notify that there is a new version
(2.12) of KALOS, the Greek verb conjugator,  available
at  http://www.conjugator.net . This version is smaller in
size, faster and better presented.
Please download it for free and send us your questions
or comments.
   Thanks

      Gonzalo and Mariana Diaz (the authors)

I had thought this is just the tool you need [ Perseus is rebuilding its 
databases these days, and is off line at certain times -- indeed, the 
Oxford mirror on which I sometimes have to rely, is off-line for several 
days ].

For a start, it's free <g>

However, on submitting DECOISQE to its morphological analysis, it returns:

Present Optative Middle 2 pp of both DECOMAI, as you surmised, _and_ of DEW.
Yet and also when it displays the full conjugation of DEW it rightly shows 
DEOISQE for the present optative middle.

Not perhaps the best recommendation for downloading a c.20 Mb file, I agree.

I'll send you some screengrabs, off-list, to let you see the general look 
of the program -- and, errors and omissions included you may well have use 
for it.







Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie





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