[B-Greek] anaskolopisthenta vs.stauron

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Fri Dec 28 10:19:48 EST 2007



Anita Clerke wrote:

> Could someone tell me if there may be a grammatical pattern or reason
> as to why these two authors sometimes used ANASKOLOPISTHENTA, or
> inflections of it, and other times used STAURON? Perhaps there is
> another possible reason for the choice of words apart from those
> given by Meier.

As you'll see from the LSJ entry on anaskolop-izô

anaskolop-izô :--Pass., with fut. Med. -skolopioumai (in pass. sense)
Hdt.3.132, 4.43, but Pass.

      A. -skolopisthêsomai Luc.Prom.7 : aor. -eskolopisthên ib.2,10: pf.
-eskolopismai Id.Peregr.13 :--fix on a pole or stake, impale, Hdt.1.128,
3.159, al.; in 9.78 it is used convertibly with anastauroô, as in
Ph.1.237,687, Luc.Peregr.11.

the reason there might be alternating usage is that the terms are
synonymous.

Jeffrey
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