[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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