[B-Greek] hESTANAI, hISTAMAI and hISTHMI
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 18:54:30 EDT 2007
Thank you, Jeffrey.
Glad to hear that Carl's form is attested. I, too, am not surprised
and it raises two questions:
1. Are many of your occurrences transitive? 'to have made something stand' ?
2. However question 1 is answered, this may also be a historical
regularization taking place where the intransitive ESTHKA indicative
is extended into a neo-infinitive. (Origen is 3rd century CE., scholia
are difficult to date unless papyri.)
And bottom line is that one would still want to say ESTANAI when
referring to 'standing', just lilke in Acts 12:14 k.t.l., if aspiring
for the PRWTH EKATONAETIA.
APHGGEILEN ESTANAI TON PETRON PRO TOU PULWNOS
ERRWSO
IWANHS
On 8/7/07, Jeffrey B. Gibson <jgibson000 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> "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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