[B-Greek] little problem
jerry
gerald_davis at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 19 09:08:21 EDT 2009
Hey, y'all,
No one is doing Mastronarde Unit Seven right now, and I have a problem.
>From Exercise II., 6. ἡ παρὰ τὸν ποταμὸν ὁδος χαλεπή.
The answer key says, "The road along the river is difficult," and I am sure they thought that was easy for us beginners, especially since they gave us the "along the river" example, earlier.
But I had a problem with τὸν ποταμὸν being accusative, so I thought, in context, "The difficult journey is beyond the river," would be a good translation as a nice little metaphor; or, "The road is hard beyond the river."
So I guess that their suggestion has a couple implied verbs, "The road -[which is]- along the river -[is]- difficult." I can live with that, except when there seems to be good alternatives.
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jerry davis
φλόριδα, USA
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