[B-Greek] Could I have some help (corrected)

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Sep 9 07:21:39 EDT 2009


On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Carl Conrad wrote:

>
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 12:25 PM, jlitteral5 at roadrunner.com wrote:
>
>> I am working on translating this, could someone take a shot at this
>> for me?
>>
>> ει γαρ συμβαινει γυναικα πιστην
>> απιστω συνοικουσαν, μη ειναι
>> εναρετον, η βλασφημια επι τον θεον
>> διαβαινειν ειωθεν.
>
> Do you really intend this translation endeavor to be an interactive
> collaborative effort by discussion list? It would appear that if
> that's the case, you'll encounter a lot of guess-work.
>
> Εἰ γὰρ συμβαίνει γυναῖκα πιστὴν
> ἀπιίστῳ συνοικοῦσαν, μὴ εἶναι
> ἐνάρετον, ἡ βλασφημία ἐπὶ τὸν θεὸν
> διαβαίνειν εἴωθεν.
>
> [EI GAR SUMBAINEI GUNAIKA PISTHN APIISTWi SUNOIKOUSAN, MH EINAI
> ENARETON, hH BLASFHMIA EPI TON QEON DIABAINEIN EIWQEN.]
>
> If a believing woman living with an unbeliever is not actually
> virtuous, the sacrilege ordinarily becomes an offense against God.

	[Mor] following upon "sacrilege" deleted
>
>
> More literally: "For if a woman believer living with (a man who is) an
> unbeliever happens not to be virtuous, the sacrilege (of this
> cohabitation) ordinarily carries over to (an offense) against God."
>
>  The construction turns on a couple irregular impersonal verbs, both
> of which are fairly common in expository prose. SUMBAINEI is a third-
> person impersonal verb indicating a contingency and construed with an
> accusative + infinitive complement. EIWQEN is the third-person
> singular of an irregular (second) perfect-tense verb EIWQA construed
> with a complementary infinitive and having the sense “be accustomed
> (to do X)” or “habitually do” – it works like Latin  
> “solet”
> with an infinitive.
>
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>
>
>
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