From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 09:58:10 EDT
At 8:46 AM -0500 9/13/01, Ed Garcia wrote:
>Some friends and I are reading the book of Galatians. But we are puzzled as
>to the function of UMAS in 4:11. It is an accusative but we are not sure how
>to translate it. What use of the accusative is this? Any guidance that
>anyone can offer would be most appreciated. Thank you.
TEXT: FOBOUMAI hUMAS MH PWS EIKHi KEKOPIAKA EIS hUMAS.
I don't think that initial hUMAS should be treated as a direct object of
FOBOUMAI but rather as anticipatory of EIS hUMAS, particularly as the
clause MH PWS ... KEKOPIAKA is a typical clause of anxiety, except that
it's in the indicative rather than expressing an anxiety about the future.
My inclination would be to see a sort of anacoluthon here--a break after
the hUMAS and then a resumption in the MH PWS clause. I think I would
either omit the hUMAS in translation or else try to reproduce the force of
the anacoluthon: "I'm afraid that you--that I've labored in vain upon you."
--Carl W. Conrad Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus) Most months: 1647 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243 cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cwconrad@ioa.com WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
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