[B-Greek] hOPHi in Basil?
craig
newsgroupstuff at swiftdsl.com.au
Sun Jun 20 17:45:32 EDT 2004
> >Here is the clause (it is from the 2nd chapter of PROS TOUS
> NEOUS OMWS
> >AN EX ALLHNIKWN WFELOINTO LOGWN):
> >
> >TIS DH OUN HOUTOS hO BIOS KAI hOPHi KAI hOPWS AUTON BOWSOMEQA ...
> >
> >So can someone tell me what hOPHi is?
>
> I'm sort of assuming that the title is actually PROS TOUS
> NEOUS hOMWS AN EX hELLHNIKWN WFELOINTO LOGWN.
Yes, sorry. I was a bit hasty in transcribing! (actually I got OMWS doubly
wrong, should be hOPWS!)
> hOPHi is a relative-interrogative adverb meaning "in what
> way"; in origin it's a relative-interrogative adjective
> qualifying an implicit dative sg. noun hODWi ('way'). Here it
> looks pretty much synonymous with hOPWS, so that the
> combination becomes, "in what way and how ..."
Is it very common? I couldn't find it in BAGD or at perseus site (but maybe
I couldn't get the right transcription..?)
Thanks!
Craig Johnson
Brisbane, Australia
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