[B-Greek] thanks

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Thu Apr 3 07:24:50 EDT 2008


On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:00 AM, lalboy haokip wrote:
> Thanks for an informations but not yet meeting what am asking for.  
> my question is : A brief of imperatives use in classical Greek,  
> Philo writings and in septuagint.

It is unclear what you are asking for now or what you think you may  
have asked for previously -- probably a problem expressing yourself in  
English. Let's try to be clear first. Are you seeking:

(1) a brief account of the imperative FORMS - morphology -- in ancient  
Greek use from Classical Attic through the era of the early church  
fathers?
(2) an account of the ways in which the imperative forms are USED  
within that broad time range? I'm assuming the latter is what you want.

I think that the resource you might best go to is Smyth's Greek  
Grammar. You can access the section on imperative usage online at:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0007&query=head%3D%23511
or
http://tinyurl.com/35gcrx

and the page immediately following that:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0007;query=subsection%3D%23121;layout=;loc=1845
or
http://tinyurl.com/3dkf93

There are other resources available on the internet that deal with  
imperatives. One of the simpler overviews of imperative forms is:

http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/project/funk-grammar/pre-alpha/lesson-30.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/2ucgx3

And a brief account of imperative usage in that same resource (Funk,  
Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek):

http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/project/funk-grammar/pre-alpha/lesson-56.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/2pklha


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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