[B-Greek] PROSCWMEN and ORQOI
Carl W.Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Jun 15 06:25:44 EDT 2007
On Jun 15, 2007, at 5:56 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>
> On Jun 14, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Eric Weiss wrote:
>
>> Two words from John Chrysostom's Divine Liturgy:
>>
>> PROSCWMEN - Let us be attentive
>> ORQOI - (Let us?) Arise
>>
>> Does PROSCWMEN come from PROSECW?
>
> Unquestionably; one might expect two sigmas: PROS-SCWMEN -- it's
> aorist subj. 1 sg. in the hortatory sense;
Make that aor. subj. 1 pl. in the hortatory sense.
> this verb was originally
> used with the acc. object NOUN or plur. NOUS: "direct (one's) mind,"
> and very early came to be used without the object in the sense "pay
> attention (to)."
>
>> ORQOI seems to come from ORQOW.
>
> I think this is more likely the nom. pl. of ORQOS/H/ON used with an
> implicit hortatory subjunctive like ANASTWMEN (ANISTAMAI/ANESTHN).
> Compare Acts 14:10 EIPEN MEGALHi FWNHi: ANASTHQI EPI TOUS PODAS SOU
> ORQOS!
>
> Or you might compare the liturgical Latin phrase SURSUM CORDA, lit.
> "hearts upward" but usually in English it's "Lift up your hearts."
>
>> Are these subjunctives, imperatives, optatives, or what?
>>
>> What is the morphological explanation of these endings, and where
>> are they on
>> charts or in, e.g., Smyth?
>
> These are not Classical but ecclesiastical Greek expressions; the
> only thing, however, that strikes me as odd is the simplification of
> the double sigma into a single sigma; that's probably a matter of
> spelling reflecting pronunciation.
>
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
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