[B-Greek] -OTERAN or - WTERAN?
Eric Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 14 10:01:18 EDT 2007
In a Theotokion (prayer to the Theotokos), there is a phrase:
THN TIMIWTERAN TWN CEROUBEIM
KAI ENDOXOTERAN ASUGKRITWS TWN SERAFEIM
"[the] More honorable than the Cherubim
And more glorious without compare than the Seraphim"
My all-Greek The Synechdemos spells the second comparative as above - i.e.,
ENDOXOTERAN. However, a Greek-English prayer book that abridges The Synechdemos
spells it as ENDOXWTERAN. The word is ENDOXOS. I can't tell from Smyth or my lexicons
which would be the correct spelling.
Since I have discovered misspellings in both the abridged version and the full Synechdemos
- though far fewer in The Synechdemos, and the abridged one seems to have several
punctuation discrepancies, too - I can't be sure which of the two is correct.
Eric S. Weiss
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