[B-Greek] wife woman etc
Elizabeth Kline
kline-dekoning at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 24 17:25:19 EDT 2005
In my current reading on word order in Herodotus this sample text is used:
Herodotus Hist. 5.6.1
TWN DE DH ALLWN QRHIKWN ESTI hODE NOMOS: PWLEOUSI TA 2 TEKNA EP' EXAGWGHi.
TAS DE PARQENOUS OU FULASSOUSI, ALL' 3 EWSI TOISI AUTAI BOULONTAI ANDRASI
MISGESQAI, TAS DE 4 GUNAIKAS ISCURWS FULASSOUSI: KAI WNEONTAI TAS GUNAIKAS 5
PARA TWN GONEWN CRHMATWN MEGALWN. KAI TO MEN ESTICQAI 6 EUGENES KEKRITAI, TO
DE ASTIKTON AGENNES: ARGON EINAI 7 KALLISTON, GHS DE ERGATHN ATIMOTATON: TO
ZWEIN APO POLEMOU 8 KAI LHISTUOS KALLISTON. hOUTOI MEN SFEWN hOI
EPIFANESTATOI
This passage from Herodotus sheds some light on the question. The jealous
treatment of TAS GUNAIKAS is contrasted with TAS PARQENOUS who are allowed
to have illicit relations with ANDRASI.
Elizabeth Kline
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