[B-Greek] Movable *sigma*?!

George F. Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Wed Jun 16 19:31:47 EDT 2004


On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:49:40 -0400 bgreek at ntresources.com writes:
> Perhaps to my shame, I have never heard of a "movable sigma." But in 
> 
> reading tonight from the Introduction to the Editio Critica Maior of 
> James 
> (v. 4, pt. 1, text vol., p. 17*) I find the statement, "all 
> orthographica 
> are recorded except for the movable sigma and the movable nu." I 
> know about 
> movable nu (that's basic first-year info), but in more than 30 years 
> of 
> working with Greek, I don't remember any reference to movable sigma. 
> 
> (Perhaps that's more an indication of my memory than anything else! 
> :) Can 
> someone enlighten me as to the situations in which a sigma may be 
> movable?
> 
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You're not the Lone Ranger here.  I didn't recall this either.  See Smyth
§136/

gfsomsel



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