[B-Greek] John 11:43 dativus

Beata Urbanek baurbanek at op.pl
Tue Mar 22 04:55:31 EST 2005



> At 10:06 PM +0100 3/21/05, Beata Urbanek wrote:
> >Text:
> >
> >FWNHi MEGALHi EKRAUGASEN
> >
> >Is dativus here modi/manner or instrumentalis/means? Does it function as
> >an adverb?
>
> It probably doesn't matter a great deal whether it's deemed one rather
than
> the other, but inasmuch as the key word here is MEGALHi I guess I'd prefer
> to call it a dative of manner: ("he cried out loudly").
> -- 
>
> Carl W. Conrad

Thanks. Could we say that it is a typical way of expressing idea of "loudly"
in B-Greek? I do not know any adverb with that meaning. of cource, there are
examples of expressing this idea with other words (like MEGAS), but they are
still general. Am I right?

Beata Urbanek




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