[B-Greek] hESTANAI, hISTAMAI and hISTHMI
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Aug 8 05:19:35 EDT 2007
On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:19 PM, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
> Randall Buth wrote:
>
>> 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' ?
It looks to me like these three instances of hESTHKENAI
(ἑστηκέναι) are all intransitive, which is to say that this
is a matter of "regularization" of the form of the infinitive to
match the indicative hESTHKA; the infinitive is not transitive in
these instances.
Carl W. Conrad
>
> I don't have the time right now to copy and paste all of the Origen
> references.
> But here is the one from Theopompus
>
> Fragmenta 2b,115,F.75c.
> du/o de\ potamou\j peri\ tou=ton to\n to/pon r(ei=n, kai\
> to\n me\n (Hdonh=j kalei=sqai to\n de\ Lu/phj, kai\ par' e(ka/
> teron tou/twn
> e(sthke/nai de/ndra to\ me/geqoj plata/nou mega/lhj.
δύο δὲ ποταμοὺς περὶ τοῦτον τὸν
τόπον ῥεῖν, καὶ
τὸν μὲν (ηδονῆς καλεῖσθαι τὸν δὲ
λύπης, καὶ παρ' ἑκάτερον τούτων
ἑστηκέναι δένδρα τὸ μέγεθος
πλατάνου μεγάλης.
> from Aelianus Soph VH 3.18.51
> du/o de\ potamou\j peri\ tou=ton to\n to/pon
> r(ei=n, kai\ to\n me\n (Hdonh=j kalei=sqai to\n de\ Lu/phj:
> kai\ par' e(ka/teron tou/twn e(sthke/nai de/ndra to\ me/-
> geqoj plata/nou mega/lhj.
δύο δὲ ποταμοὺς περὶ τοῦτον τὸν
τόπον
ῥεῖν, καὶ τὸν μὲν (ηδονῆς
καλεῖσθαι τὸν δὲ λύπης:
καὶ παρ' ἑκάτερον τούτων ἑστηκέναι
δένδρα τὸ μέ-
γεθος πλατάνου μεγάλης.
>
> Which is a duplicate of the above!
>
> And here is the Plotinus text:
>
> &` Enneades 3.6.4.34 to Enneades 3.6.4.38$`
> Ei)/dei de\ ou)-
> deni\ dei= parei=nai taraxh\n h)\ o(/lwj pa/qoj, a)ll' e(sth-
> ke/nai me\n au)to/, th\n de\ u(/lhn au)tou= e)n t%= pa/qei
> gi/gnesqai, o(/tan gi/gnhtai, e)kei/nou tv= parousi/# ki-
> nou=ntoj.
εἴδει δὲ οὐ-
δενὶ δεῖ παρεῖναι ταραχὴν ἢ ὅλως
πάθος, ἀλλ' ἑστη-
κέναι μὲν αὐτό, τὴν δὲ ὕλην αὐτοῦ
ἐν τῷ πάθει
γίγνεσθαι, ὅταν γίγνηται, ἐκείνου
τοῦ παρουσί# κι-
νοῦντος
>
> I apologize that they are in beta code. It's the way they transfer
> from the TLG.
>
> Jeffrey
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