From: Kevin W. Woodruff (cierpke@utc.campus.mci.net)
Date: Thu Sep 26 1996 - 19:52:09 EDT
Imperative indicative, 2nd person, singular (unless it's a tandem bicycle)
of STAMATW  (in least in Modern Greek) and most likely PAUW in Koine
At 08:59 AM 9/27/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Did everyone receive the "exegeting stop signs" posting from William Cox?  I
>thought it was very good but wondered about the connexion with Greek.  So I
>got to thinking which Greek word would we use for stop?  Would it be KWLUW,
>PAUW, KATALUW, hISTHMI, SIGAW, FRASSW or DIAKOPTW?  And then there is the
>other problem, which mood? imperative, subjunctive, infinitive or even
>indicative?  And which tense?  Would it be present, aorist, imperfect,
>perfect or even future?!  Can we differentiate between STOP and HALT?  What
>would a chariot STOP sign really have said in Hellenistic Greek?  I think
>this might make a good exercise for some Greek students!  
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>John
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Kevin W. Woodruff
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