From: snooker (snooker1@cwnet.com)
Date: Sun Jun 18 2000 - 22:38:05 EDT
Carl W Conrad said:
>Surely the AUTOS attached to hOUTOS sets "He HIMSELF apart from hOI EGGONOI
AUTOU, doesn't it? I >would understand PENTEKAIDEKA SUNAPANTES as
appositional ONLY to hOI EGGONOI AUTOU. Moreover the >verb LAMBANEI is
singular, which suggests that KAI hOI EGGONOI AUTOU PENTEKAIDEKA SUNAPANTES
is >an appended subject. "He himself--and his kinsmen numbering fifteen
altogether--continually held >(the office) until the kingship of Antiochus
Eupator."
>Whiston's translation at Perseus seems to me to be making this distinction:
"Now he and his posterity, who were in all fifteen, until king Antiochus
Eupator, ..."
Thank you very much,
Daniel E. Barnes
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