[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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