Stirling Bartholomew wrote:Yes I understand the problem. It isn't easy to make this work as a predicate genitive. This is a common experience with Cooper's citations. A lot of them leave me wondering what on earth he is trying to demonstrate with this text. Happens all the time with Cooper.
Well, since Cooper is a revision of Kühner-Gerth and Smyth is also based on it, I though it would be helpful to see what K-G say. Under predicate genitives, they say this:
Kühner-Gerth 2.1 § 418, p. 373 wrote:(Ohne εἶναι Th. 3, 70 οἱ δέ τινες τῆς αὐτῆς γνώμης τῷ Πειθίᾳ κατέφυγον).
Two things are clear from the quote in the way they read this:
First, they don't see ὀλίγοι as part of the noun phrase. So it must be in apposition, just like Carl said.
Second, they consider this a case of a predicate genitive without an expressed form of the verb
to be. I'm guessing they read it as if οἱ δέ τινες
ὄντες τῆς αὐτῆς γνώμης τῷ Πειθίᾳ κατέφυγον.
Stirling Bartholomew wrote:How do you read the article οἱ, with οἱ ... ὀλίγοι ? and what about τινες placed between the article and the noun?
In light of Carl, and K-G, you can forget that comment of mine.
Stephen
Stephen C. Carlson, Ph.D.
Melbourne, Australia