[B-Greek] enclitic question

Randy Leedy Rleedy at bju.edu
Thu Mar 10 16:18:13 EST 2005


James Ernest wrote [Hello, James]

>>>In this phrase from an edition of a catena on Matthew:

LOGIKWTA/TH TI/S FU/SIS

the enclitic TIS retains its accent because it follows a paroxytone.
But why
is that accent acute rather than grave? Cf. Smyth 154.a.
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I don't see a reply to this message yet in the archives, so, James, if
you haven't gotten it worked out already, I'll take a crack at it. Are
you sure the word is TI\S indefinite, as opposed to TI/S interrogative?
(You didn't give much context: could it read "What creature [is] most
rational?") If TI/S is interrogative, then its accent is acute because
the interrogative nature of TI/S causes it to keep the rising tone, and
the accent on the interrogative never changes to grave. I can't
reference Smyth for you, since I don't own that one.

If it is in fact indefinite, then I wonder whether you're looking at a
misprint of some sort.

Blessings in Christ! (Acts 3:26),

Randy Leedy
Bob Jones University Seminary
Greenville, SC



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