[B-Greek] ERXOMAI = return

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 1 22:29:57 EST 2008


On Jan 1, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:

> In his entry in BDAG on ERXOMAI Danker notes that besides having the
> meaning "come", it was also used   "Hom.+"  (from Homer forward)
> "w[ith] the specif[ic]. m[eani]ng 'come back, return'".
>
>
>      Also w. the specif. mng. come back, return (Hom.+; Bar 4:37; 1
>      Esdr 5:8; Tob 2:3 BA) J 4:27; 9:7; Ro 9:9)
>
> Curiously, though, when I turn to LSJ, I find nothing there that
> indicates that Homer, let alone any post Homeric author,  used ERXOMAI
> to signify the "specific" meaning" that Danker says it bore.
>
> Is Danker wrong in this matter?  Or are there Homeric and post Homeric
> instances outside of the ones he actually cites of ERXOMAI meaning
> "return"?
>
> If so, what are they?
>
>
>

R.J.Cunliffe (p.161 #7) "to return, to come back or home" with a  
column inch of examples from Homer. I only had time to check a few  
examples Iliad 5:409, 8:12, 10:337,444?, 510, 14:504; Odyssey 1:168,  
3:188, 4:82,478, 5:40, 10:244.


Iliad 5:409

οὐδὲ τὸ οἶδε κατὰ φρένα Τυδέος  
υἱὸς 407 ὅττι μάλ’ οὐ δηναιὸς ὃς  
ἀθανάτοισι μάχηται, 408 οὐδέ τί μιν  
παῖδες ποτὶ γούνασι παππάζουσιν 409  
ἐλθόντ’ ἐκ πολέμοιο καὶ αἰνῆς  
δηϊοτῆτος.

OUDE TO OIDE KATA FRENA TUDEOS hUIOS
407 hOTTI MAL' OU DHNAIOS hOS AQANATOISI MACHTAI,
408 OUDE TI MIN PAIDES POTI GOUNASI PAPPAZOUSIN
409 ELQONT' EK POLEMOIO KAI AINHS DHIOTHTOS.

Odyssey 1:168

166 νῦν δ’ ὁ μὲν ὣς ἀπόλωλε κακὸν  
μόρον, οὐδέ τις ἥμιν 167 θαλπωρή, εἴ  
πέρ τις ἐπιχθονίων ἀνθρώπων 168  
φῇσιν ἐλεύσεσθαι· τοῦ δ’ ὤλετο  
νόστιμον ἦμαρ.

166 NUN D' hO MEN hWS APOLWLE KAKON MORON, OUDE TIS hHMIN
167 QALPWRH, EI PER TIS EPICQONIWN ANQRWPWN
168 FHiSIN ELEUSESQAI: TOU D' WLETO NOSTIMON HMAR.

Elizabeth Kline







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