[B-Greek] Chiasmus
Mario Trinchero
mariotrinchero at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 18:04:50 EST 2011
*
Hi
This is also a chiasmus
Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno* is a
Latin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin> phrase
that means "*One for all, all for one*" in
English<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language>.
It is known as being the motto <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motto> of
Alexandre
Dumas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas,_p%C3%A8re>' Three
Musketeers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers> and is also
the traditional motto of Switzerland<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland>
.
How could translate into biblical greek ?
Thanks
Mario Trinchero
2011/2/24 Edgar Foster <edgarfoster2003 at yahoo.com>
> I'm by no means being dogmatic or taking a staunch position on this issue.
> I've studied ancient literary devices like chiasmus and have written on the
> five canons of rhetoric. Heinrich Lausberg comments on the source from LSJ.
> The following quote is found in sec. 723, note 2 of Lausberg's work Handbook
> of Literary Rhetoric:
>
> "In [Hermog.] Inv. 4.3 the term XIASMOS relates only to the crosswise
> exchange (without change of meaning of the whole period) of the cola in
> their totality in a period consisting of four cola (cf. sec. 933), not to
> the position of the clause elements within the cola. Similarly Schol. Isoc.
> 12.51 (47) SUPERASMA XIASMON MH ANASTREFON THN DIANOIAN TOU LOGOU. -Cf.
> secs. 796, 800; 1244, VICISSIM; 1246, CHIASME."
>
> Lausberg contends that the term "chiasm" is "more modern terminology" (see
> aforementioned note).
>
> Regards,
>
> Edgar
>
> --- On Wed, 2/23/11, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
> > Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Chiasmus
> > To: "Stephen and Amanda" <stephenandamanda at gmail.com>
> > Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 6:11 AM
> >
> > On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:41 AM, Stephen and Amanda wrote:
> >
> > > Does anybody know where any discussion of chiasmus
> > occurs in ancient
> > > rhetorical literature?
> > >
> > > To be clear, I'm not asking for examples of chiasmus
> > but for ancient's
> > > discussing the "device".
> > >
> > > I once read that there is little to no discussion of
> > it in rhetorical
> > > literature (can't remember where I read that).
> > > Nonetheless, my own reading of rhetorical literature
> > confirms this. I am yet
> > > to come across any discussion of it.
> > >
> > > Is there any discussion in rhetorical lit.? If so,
> > where?
> >
> > LSJ s.v. χιασμός:
> > χι-ασμός, ὁ,
> > placing crosswise, diagonal arrangement, esp. of the
> > clauses of a period, so that the 1st corresponds with the
> > 4th, and the 2nd with the 3rd, Hermog.Inv.4.3; κατὰ
> > χιασμόν Sch.Isoc.12.47.
> >
> > That's Hermogenes of Tarsus, evidently -- a 2nd-century AD
> > rhetorician -- and the treatise would probably be De
> > Inventione. See:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermogenes_of_Tarsus
> >
> > There's a 19th century edition of the Opera Hermogenis and
> > a relatively complete French version of the whole, M.
> > Patillon, Hermogène. L'art rhétorique. Paris: L'Age
> > d'Homme, 1997.
> >
> >
> > Carl W. Conrad
> > Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
> >
> >
> >
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