[B-Greek] Re: Predicate as topic
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at juno.com
Sun Jun 26 18:35:43 EDT 2005
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:56:02 -0400 Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
writes:
>
> On Jun 26, 2005, at 5:32 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
>
> > On 6/26/05 2:30 PM, "Elizabeth Kline" <kline-
> > dekoning at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Would you or Ivar Larsen could interact directly with Helma Dik's
>
> >> statements :
> >>
> >
> > Would you or Ivar Larsen like to interact directly with Helma
> Dik's
> > statements?
>
> Ahhh ..., so I misunderstood the original! It never occurred to me
>
> that it was a mis-statement. I had thought this was the archaizing
>
> equivalent of "I wish that you or Ivar Larsen could ..." as in the
>
> old version of the opening line of Euripides' Medea: "Would that an
>
> embargo had kept in port the good ship Argo!"
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad at ioa.com or cwconrad2 at mac.com
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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Is this like "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
george
gfsomsel
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