[B-Greek] hESTANAI, hISTAMAI and hISTHMI

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Tue Aug 7 16:58:14 EDT 2007



"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:

> There is no perfect infinitive form hESTHKENAI attested
> in any ancient Greek text of which I know, although I wouldn't be
> surprised to see it.

Searching up to the 3rd cent. C.E. and in the varia and incertum section of
the TLG E,  I see that hESTHKENAI appears in Theopompus Hist Fragmenta
2b,115;   Plotinus Enneades 3.6.4.35 and some 26 times in Origen.

It also appears in Anonymi in Aristotelis sophisticos elenchos paraphrasis
10.17; 11.2; &`Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium Argonautica 41.2; and &`
Scholia in Homerum Scholia in Iliadem 24.759b.

There are also compound forms -- SUNESTHKENAI and AFESTHKENAI extant.

Jeffrey
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