[B-Greek] DECOISQE in Basil

James Ernest jdemail at charter.net
Sat Jun 5 07:43:10 EDT 2004


Title of the Wilson book seems to be slightly different:

Author :  Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379.  
Title :  Address to young men  
Title :  Saint Basil on the value of Greek literature / edited by N. G.
Wilson.  
Published :  London : Duckworth, 1975.  
Description :  7-75 p. : 1 ill. ; 22 cm.  
Notes :  Text in Greek of his Ad adolescentes de legendis gentilium libris.

ISBN :  071560872X.  

If you find an extra one, let me know...

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James D. Ernest, Ph.D., Editor
Baker Academic
jernest at BakerAcademic.com.com
http://www.BakerAcademic.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of D Jongkind
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 6:36 AM
> To: B-Greek
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] DECOISQE in Basil
> 
> 
> Hi Craig,
> 
> DEXOISQE is an optative. If you want to have an excellent 
> tutor while you are reading this work of Basil, try to get a 
> copy of "Saint Basil on Greek Literature" by N.G. Wilson 
> (published by Duckworth, London 1975), who provides an 
> excellent grammatical commentary on the text. And indeed, 
> Basil tends to be quite a bit more complicated than the NT, 
> though well worth the effort.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dirk Jongkind
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
> To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Cc: "Craig Johnson" <allthejs at swiftdsl.com.au>
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 11:09 AM
> Subject: [B-Greek] DECOISQE in Basil
> 
> 
> > From: "Craig Johnson" <allthejs at swiftdsl.com.au>
> > To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Subject: DECOISQE in Basil
> > Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:13:38 +1000
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Also, as a general question, is Basil supposed to be 
> easy/same/harder 
> > than general NT texts?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Craig Johnson
> >
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