[B-Greek] Short vowel subjunctives
bertdehaan at sympatico.ca
bertdehaan at sympatico.ca
Wed Aug 17 18:35:37 EDT 2005
Hi all.
In a thread dealing with the benefits of learning Classical Greek, Carl Conrad wrote a list of "peculiarities" of Classical compared to Koine.
One of them was: short-vowel aorist subjunctives functioning as futures.
I've seen lots of short vowel aorist subjunctives in Homer but I assumed that they were short vowel to make them work in the metre of the poem.
Is the distinction in meaning between short and long vowel subjunctives that you hinted at, a concrete distinction or is it vague?
Ps. Thank you Carl for that message you quoted.
I am still learning Homeric Greek (and I plan to go on to other authors) in order to help me with Koine, but it is not the only reason any more. For me, learning Greek has taken on a life of its own.
Bert de Haan.
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