[B-Greek] Need help!!

nebarry nebarry at verizon.net
Fri Mar 11 11:52:47 EST 2011


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From: "nebarry" <nebarry at verizon.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Need help!!

Typo correction and transliteration...

> Carl is right, as he often is...  :)  However, let me also point out that 
> it is not uncommon in post-classical authors, such as Josephus or Lucian, 
> even those Atticizing tendencies, to use a perphrastic form of the perfect 
> middle-passive in the indicative, which would be λελυτρωμένα εἰμί, and so 
> you can sneak in a feminine form.  Of course, these forms are rare even in 
> the Classical period.

That should be λελυτρωμένη εἰμί (I think I've been doing too much Latin 
lately), and I forgot the transliteration, LELUTRWMENH EIMI.

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Classics and Bible @ TAA
http://www.theamericanacademy.net





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