[B-Greek] Dative participial clauses
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 7 16:24:27 EDT 2007
On Jul 5, 2007, at 4:52 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> Preliminary unscientific foreword: Classical author Thucydides
> certainly is; prototypical he is anything but. On the other hand,
> these are from narrative rather than from speeches, and these texts
> are themselves readily intelligible enough.
Carl,
I selected G.Cooper's citations from Thucydides primarily because I
had the Harvard text of Thucydides at hand. Cooper also cites
Xenophon and the pattern is similar to what we saw in Thucydides.
X.A. 3.5.7-8
Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐπὶ τὰς σκηνὰς ἦλθον, οἱ
μὲν ἄλλοι περὶ τὰ 2 ἐπιτήδεια ἦσαν,
στρατηγοὶ δὲ καὶ λοχαγοὶ συνῇσαν.
καὶ 3 ἐνταῦθα πολλὴ ἀπορία ἦν.
ἔνθεν μὲν γὰρ ὄρη ἦν ὑπερύψηλα,
ἔνθεν δὲ ὁ ποταμὸς τοσοῦτος βάθος
ὡς μηδὲ τὰ δόρατα ὑπερέχειν
πειρωμένοις τοῦ βάθους.
ἀπορουμένοις 2 δ’ αὐτοῖς προσελθών
τις ἀνὴρ Ῥόδιος εἶπεν· Ἐγὼ θέλω, ὦ
3 ἄνδρες, διαβιβάσαι ὑμᾶς κατὰ
τετρακισχιλίους ὁπλίτας, ἂν 4 ἐμοὶ
ὧν δέομαι ὑπηρετήσητε καὶ
τάλαντον μισθὸν πορίσητε.
EPEI DE EPI TAS SKHNAS HLQON, hOI MEN ALLOI PERI TA 2 EPITHDEIA HSAN,
STRATHGOI DE KAI LOCAGOI SUNHiSAN. KAI 3 ENTAUQA POLLH APORIA HN.
ENQEN MEN GAR ORH HN hUPERUYHLA, ENQEN DE hO POTAMOS TOSOUTOS BAQOS
hWS MHDE TA DORATA hUPERECEIN PEIRWMENOIS TOU BAQOUS. APOROUMENOIS 2
D' AUTOIS PROSELQWN TIS ANHR hRODIOS EIPEN: EGW QELW, W 3 ANDRES,
DIABIBASAI hUMAS KATA TETRAKISCILIOUS hOPLITAS, AN 4 EMOI hWN DEOMAI
hUPHRETHSHTE KAI TALANTON MISQON PORISHTE.
Once again we have switched reference. The [referent of the] subject
of the pre-verbal dative participle APOROUMENOIS is STRATHGOI KAI
LOCAGOI. The subject of PROSELQWN and EIPEN is TIS ANHR hRODIOS. Once
again we have a pronoun AUTOIS to deal with but I think that is a
minor distraction. I wonder why Cooper selected this example to
illustrate a loosely connected pre-verbal dative participle? Perhaps
there is some reason I am not aware of that a dative would not
construe with the participle PROSELQWN.
X.A. 6.3.10
Χειρίσοφος δὲ ἀσφαλῶς πορευόμενος
παρὰ θάλατταν 2 ἀφικνεῖται εἰς
Κάλπης λιμένα. Ξενοφῶντι δὲ διὰ τῆς
3 μεσογείας πορευομένῳ οἱ ἱππεῖς
καταθέοντες ἐντυγχάνουσι 4
πρεσβύταις πορευομένοις ποι.
CEIRISOFOS DE ASFALWS POREUOMENOS PARA QALATTAN 2 AFIKNEITAI EIS
KALPHS LIMENA. XENOFWNTI DE DIA THS 3 MESOGEIAS POREUOMENWi hOI
hIPPEIS KATAQEONTES ENTUGCANOUSI 4 PRESBUTAIS POREUOMENOIS POI.
Here the subject of POREUOMENWi is XENOFWNTI. The subject of
ENTUGCANOUSI is hOI hIPPEIS. ENTUGCANOUSI takes a dative argument but
it is PRESBUTAIS not XENOFWNTI.
Elizabeth Kline
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