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παίδιον τις - There is a difference in gender here.Wes Wood wrote:παίδιον τις καὶ ὁ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ βλέπουσιν ἀκρίδον καταβαίνοντα εἰς φραγμὸν. βλέψας, τὸ παιδίον τρέχει εἰς τὸν φραγμὸν καὶ ψηλαφῶν εὑρίσκει αὐτόν. εὑρὼν αἰρεῖ τὸν ἀκρίδον ὑπέρ τὴν κεφαλὴν συμβιβάζειν τῷ πατρὶ ὅτι εὗρεν αὐτόν.
Bwaaahahaha!Stephen Hughes wrote:Have you heard of concepts called "gender" and "the third declension"?![]()
Wouldn't this be correct since father is still the subject of the verb?Stephen Hughes wrote: ὁ πατρὸς - one of these is nominative, and the other genitive.
I was trying to say over his head, but perhaps the genitive is better suited to the task.Stephen Hughes wrote: ὑπέρ τὴν κεφαλὴν - are you trying to say "by the top of the head"?
Parse this, παρακαλῶ σε.Wes Wood wrote:πατρὸς
My bad. I thought you were talking about the critter's head. To be clearer, for dolts and dummies, perhaps you could add an αὐτοῦ.Wes Wood wrote:I was trying to say over his head, but perhaps the genitive is better suited to the task.Stephen Hughes" wrote: ὑπέρ τὴν κεφαλὴν - are you trying to say "by the top of the head"?
If you have both internal (your experience of what you have seen, written or heard about) and external (reference works) reasons for your confidence, you may more easily stick to your original choice.Wes Wood wrote:This another of those times where only the second question was enough to turn the wheel.
That would be the Saul Levin whose colleague I had hoped to be when I went to Washington University in the late summer of 1961; he was on his way to Binghamton where to this day he remains Distinguished Professor of Ancient Languages, Emeritus: https://www.binghamton.edu/cnes/people/ ... /saul.html; Phil DeLacy, who illuminated Stoic and Epicurean background and undercurrents in the NT, had already left, and Ed Krantz had recently finished a Ph.D. there. It was a considerably diminished Classcs Department to which I came; We did come into much better days later; today, fortunately, it is thriving (but I'm no longer there!)ed krentz wrote:When I took Greek Composition in Grad School under Prof. Saul Levin his rule was that I had to be able to cite an ancient author who used the vocabulary in the sense I used it or the construction in the way I used it. I paged LSJ extensively to validate my translation of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address into classical Greek.
But, but ... that would require reading all those authors ... !It got even more interesting when I had to compose in iambic trimeters, the basic meter of ancient drams.
t would be interesting if the people engaged in this exercise would have to validate their compositions from citations of the LXX, the NT, or other standard early Roman empire Greek authors, such as Epictetos, Arius Didymus, Plutarch, Ailius Aristides or Dio Chrysostom.
Just a thought.
I certainly wouldn't mind to do this, but my biggest constraint is time. Often, to have the time to post I am resigned to make a fool of myself for lack of research. But having said this, I do see your point. I will see if I can strike a balance moving forward.ed krentz wrote:When I took Greek Composition in Grad School under Prof. Saul Levin his rule was that I had to be able to cite an ancient author who used the vocabulary in the sense I used it or the construction in the way I used it. I paged LSJ extensively to validate my translation of Lincoln's Gettisburg Address into classical Greek.
It got even more interesting when I had to compose in iambic trimeters, the basic meter of ancient drams.
t would be interesting if the people engaged in this exercise would have to validate their compositions from citations of the LXX, the NT, or other standard early Roman empire Greek authors, such as Epictetos, Arius Didymus, Plutarch, Ailius Aristides or Dio Chrysostom.
Just a thiught.