[B-Greek] Adj separation

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Fri Jun 3 17:21:45 EDT 2005


On Jun 3, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> Someone a while back was getting excited about the separation of the
> adjective from the head noun. This is so common that it hardly merits
> comment but here is an example that I ran across today.
>
> LEUKHN ... DERHN
>
> Eur. I.Au. 875
>
> FASGANWI LEUKHN FONEUWN THS TALAIPWROU DERHN.

Indeed it is common; this was the topic of my own doctoral  
dissertation several decades ago; it is especially common
in verse, where an adjective (or noun) appears immediately preceding  
one of the caesurae of a line, the noun (or adjective)
at the end of the line--and there are many variants. This is common  
in Homer and becomes a standard feature of all
Greek poetry in antiquity and was imitated in Latin poetry as well.  
And of course it is to be found in all rhetorical Greek
prose.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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