[B-Greek] imperatives, optatives, etc.

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Wed Nov 16 09:00:37 EST 2005


On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:28:10 -0500 (EST) "Chet A. Creider"
<creider at uwo.ca> writes:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, George F Somsel wrote:
> 
> > 18: "KELOMAI D' hEUDE BREFOS,
> > 18 is a second-person imperative, addressed to the infant
> >
> > It looks like 1 sg pres mid ind to me even if the sense is "urge" 
> or
> > "exhort."
> 
> Sorry, I should have indicated the word.  The imperative is hEUDe 
> from hEUDW 
> 'I sleep', not KELOMAI, which I translated as 'I bid (you)', not as 
> an
> imperative.
> 
> Chet Creider
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Ah, yes.  I should have looked further.  I saw the KELOMAI and
immediately assumed that was your reference.  Since I don't like working
with transliterated Greek, I went no further.  My apologies.

red-faced,
george
gfsomsel
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