[B-Greek] Greek for "brother-in-law"?
Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000 at comcast.net
Thu Jun 30 18:15:32 EDT 2005
Carl Conrad wrote:
>
> One perfectly good word for "relation by marriage" that does appear
> in older Greek literature is GAMBROS, attested by LSJ as having the
> sense "brother-in-law" in Homer and Herodotus. You can discern the
> association with GAMOS in the word. I don't know, however, if the
> word was still in use in Hellenistic Greek.
>
Using GAMBRO and GAMBRW as my search terms, there appear to at least 101
instances of the use of GAMBROS in literature composed between the 4th cent
BCE and up through the 1st cent. CE. It's found in Philo, Plutarch, and
Josephus among others.
Jeffrey
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