[B-Greek] Acts 1,13A

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Mar 20 09:32:54 EST 2004


At 4:54 AM -0800 3/20/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
>wrote:
>
>> At 6:25 PM -0800 3/19/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>> >KAI hOTE EISHLQON, EIS TO hUPERWiON ANEBHSAN hOU
>> HSAN KATAMENONTES,
>
>> hOU in this instance is the relative ADVERB,
>> identical in form with the
>> genitive sg. m/n relative pronoun but to be
>> distinguished from it; it is
>> correlative with POU and hOPOU; in this instance TO
>> hUPERWiON is the
>> antecedent of hOU: "they went above to the upper
>> chamber where they were
>> staying ..."
>
>When you say that TO hUPERWiON is the "antecedent" of
>the ADVERB hOU, does this mean that the "relative"
>ADVERB functions somewhat like a relative PRONOUN in
>that you are giving it an antecedent, whereas most
>ADVERBS "modify" some other unit?

I think what's involved here is that TO hUPERWiON is a PLACE; hOU as a
relative adverb refers back to that place; we translate hOU as "where"--the
relative clause hOU HSAN KATAMENONTES characterizes TO hUPERWiON: hOU = EN
hWi.
-- 

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