[B-Greek] Tense of participles

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Thu May 31 13:05:37 EDT 2007


On May 30, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Bert de Haan wrote:

> There I found a comment about two participles in Iliad 1:331.  I  
> will quote
> lines 331 and 332;
> TW MEN TARBHSANTE KAI AIDOMENW BASILHA
> STHTHN, OUDE TI MIN PROSEQWNEON OUD' EREONTO
> Pharr added a footnote about the aorist participle TARBHSANTE and the
> present participle AIDOMENW.  He wrote; "Observe the difference in  
> tense of
> the two participles; the first denotes the confusion into which  
> they were
> thrown (1081) at the sight of Achilles; the other indicates their  
> customary
> feeling of reverence toward him."
> The (1081) refers to a paragraph in this book about the ingressive  
> aorist.
> Is this a valid observation ...

Phar's observation is valid within his framework.

The two participles provide background for the finite verb STHTHN and  
what follows. The background has more than one layer. The aorist  
participle TARBHSANTE is in the immediate background whereas AIDOMENW  
is the general background.

Elizabeth Kline







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