[B-Greek] ELASH

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 03:22:19 EDT 2009


>> 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).>

We use ELASAI / ELAYNEIN  AMAKSAN for 'to drive a car'
E.g. Josephus Ant 19:6
HLAYNEN EPI TH GEFYRA TO ARMA
he was driving his chariot over the bridge.

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