[B-Greek] ELASH
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Sep 7 18:05:47 EDT 2009
On Sep 7, 2009, at 3:49 PM, jlitteral5 at roadrunner.com wrote:
> I was curious about this, it is found in a commentary of John of
> Damascus, here it is in context
> καν εις εσχατην ελαση κακιαν
>
> Any thoughts on how that should be translated would be of great help
> to me.
That's not much of a context, but here's a stab.
ELASHi is aoarist subjunctive 3 sg. of ELAUNW, which means,
essentially, "push forward." It is used of marching, rowing, pushing
forward methodically. Here the sense must be something like, "even if
he/she/it presses on to the uttermost wickedness ... " (assuming that
ELASHi here is intransitive).
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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