Re: Another 2 Clement gem

From: Bart Ehrman (behrman@email.unc.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 19 1999 - 11:27:16 EST


   It's an interesting solution that Carl proposes and Mary likes. I
think I like it too. Can anyone think of examples in Greek texts of this
typical kind of English slippage (a bane of copy-editors everywhere!)?

-- Bart

Bart D. Ehrman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

> >
> >A bit more awkward, I think, but conceivable, is to understand ANQRWPON as
> >an acc. sg. subject of hEUREIN, and then, since it can be understood as a
> >generic human being, make the following clause a generic plural, as we do
> >in careless colloquial English, e.g.: "No one can do this, if they try to
> >do something else at the same time."
>
> I incline to Carl's second way of understanding this--it is awkward, but
> the style throughout the text is not particularly elegant.
> Now, you could fix the problem by emending to ANQRWPOUS, but I'd be hard
> pressed to explain why any scribe with that before him would write the
> singular.
>
> Mary
>
>
> Mary Pendergraft
> Associate Professor of Classical Languages
> Wake Forest University
> Winston-Salem NC 27109-7343
> 336-758-5331 (NOTE: this is a new number) pender@wfu.edu
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