[B-Greek] Hades in Descent

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 5 16:44:53 EST 2007


I wasn't going to say, "Me too", but that does make three of us that reach basically the same conclusion.

 
george
gfsomsel
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----- Original Message ----
From: Barry <nebarry at verizon.net>
To: Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>; Bart Ehrman <behrman at email.unc.edu>
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Monday, February 5, 2007 4:34:14 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Hades in Descent


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
To: "Bart Ehrman" <behrman at email.unc.edu>
Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Hades in Descent


> I'm assuming you mean CARITAS. Interesting that it's plural (never in
> the GNT), but LSJ indicates usage in the plural with EKTINEIN,
> APODIDONAI and ANTIDIDONAI in the sense of "repay" favors performed.
> It would appear then that the idea here is "mutual services performed
> on each other's behalf" -- a sort of "one hand washes the other" or
> "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" notion that is inherent
> in the concept of CARIS from the outset as reciprocal service and
> gratitude earned: "And so I adjure you both by yours and my own
> mutual good will not to bring him here."
>

Before I even checked the lexical data, I read it as "Therefore I adjure 
you, both to your advantage and to mine, do not bring him here!"

Now that was intuitive, and I was just headed to LSJ to confirm, but Quick 
Carl beat me to it...  :)

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Faculty Member, CUTS
http://www.cuts.edu
Classics Instructor, The American Academy
http://www.theamericanacademy.net
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