[B-Greek] Danker Festschrift: Deponency and -QH- forms

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Tue May 11 15:46:56 EDT 2004


Dr. Conrad:

Can I ask for two insignificant points of
clarification on this excellent thread you have
posted?

First...

 Dionysius Thrax (2nd c. BCE in
> Grammaticus 638.8) says of
> these forms: EISI TREIS, ENERGEIA, PAQOS, MESOTHS
> ('there are three,
> activity, passivity, medial character'); Apollonius
> Dyscolus (2nd c. CE in
> De Syntaxi, 210.19, 226.10) speaks of DIAQESIS
> ('dispositions') as
> PAQHTIKH, MESH ('passive,' 'middle.')


Was Apollonius writing about the Greek of his day or
that of the 4th c. BCE Atticists? (Can we use the
statements from Thrax and Apollonius as temporal "book
ends" on either side of the GNT, or must we take both
as pre-GNT observations regarding Voice?)

Last...
 
>  In Greek the aorist stem is generally
> prior to the present
> stem which is a modification of the aorist stem. 


Is this an observation regarding pre-Homeric Greek or
even further back to the IE ancestors of Greek? (Was
the Present tense in "full force" during Homer's day?)


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Eddie Mishoe
Pastor


	
		
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