[B-Greek] DOKEIS MOI +inf

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Feb 20 15:42:39 EST 2010


On Feb 20, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> Homer:
> 
> δοκέεις δέ μοι οὐκ ἀπινύσσειν Od.5.342
> DOKEEIS DE MOI OUK APINUSSEIN Od.5.342
> 
> Sophocles
> Ajax
> 594 {ΑΙ.} Μῶρά μοι δοκεῖς φρονεῖν,
> 595 εἰ τοὐμὸν ἦθος ἄρτι παιδεύειν νοεῖς. 
> 
> O.T.  
> 401 Κλαίων δοκεῖς μοι καὶ σὺ χὠ συνθεὶς τάδε
> ἁγηλατήσειν· εἰ δὲ μὴ 'δόκεις γέρων
> εἶναι, παθὼν ἔγνως ἂν οἷά περ φρονεῖς.   
> 
> The second person singular DOKEIS with MOI w/ :or: w/o infinitive doesn't seem to be a New Testament idiom, and for that reason I spent some time pondering it yesterday. It is common in Greek prior to Koine. 

It's not clear what you're trying to get at; I don't know how wide-ranging your search was, but it may be worth noting that all the examples you've cited are in verse; what's common in verse is often rare in prose.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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