[B-Greek] DHMOSIAi -- always adverbial? or sometimes adjectival?

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 1 15:51:56 EST 2007


On Dec 31, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> Insofar as this topic seems to involve little more than claim and  
> counter-claim regarding whether or not the dative singular form  
> DHMOSIAi is 'always' adverbial in Hellenistic Greek or whether it  
> is sometimes -- and perhaps in Acts 5.18 (EN THRHSEI DHMOSIAi)  
> adjectival, it's getting somewhat tedious. I don't know that either  
> contention can really be PROVEN, but it might be facilitated to  
> some degree if anyone with access to the TLG corpus can do a search  
> for instances of DHMOSIAi in texts of the 2nd c. BCE thru 3rd c. CE  
> where DHMO;SIAi arguably qualifies a dative feminine singular noun.

Carl,

This looks like a adjective EPI THi DHMOSIAi SFRAGIDI

Strabo Geogr., Geographica, Book 9, chapter 3, section 1, line 23,

  20
EPI TON KRISAION KOLPON, hH D EK TOU PROS hEW TELEUTWSA
EPI THN PROS EUBOIAi QALATTAN. KALOUNTAI D hOI
MEN hESPERIOI LOKROI KAI OZOLAI, ECOUSI TE EPI THi DHMOSIAi SFRAGIDI
TON hESPERON ASTERA EGKECARAGMENON:
hOI D hETEROI DICA PWS KAI AUTOI DIHiRHMENOI, hOI MEN

Elizabeth Kline







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