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Some style/usage notes for chapter 4 #28

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Mallioch opened this issue Sep 2, 2019 · 2 comments
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Some style/usage notes for chapter 4 #28

Mallioch opened this issue Sep 2, 2019 · 2 comments

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@Mallioch
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Mallioch commented Sep 2, 2019

I didn't put these as a part of the pull request because I'm not as sure of these.

  1. From ἡ πρώτη σκηνή, I would expect the genitives in "ὀλίγοι ἀμφορῆς εἰσιν" and "πόσοι ἀμφορῆς οἴνου εἰσιν" to be plural. The same for ἕνδεκα ἀμφορῆς οἰνοῦ in ἡ δεύτερα σκηνή.

  2. On the subject of δεύτερα, the lexical form is δεύτερος, so you probably shouldn't have δευτερά as you do in chapters 3 and 4. I would have fixed this, but I noticed it after the pull request.

  3. Back to plurality, ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ σκηνῇ, while one servant is present, the question is asked ποῦ εἰσιν οἱ ἄλλοι; Ol' Greg does have lots of servants, but since only one shows up, I wonder if it would be better to switch that to singular.

  4. καὶ ἐγὼ ἀγαθός εἰμι δοῦλος - I am a terrible judge of Greek style, but putting ἀγαθός before εἰμί seems a bit strange since is (logically) in an attributive position to δοῦλος. I assume you're moving it forward for emphasis, but maybe that's wrong. Or maybe this is fine (or even common) and I shouldn't think it's odd.

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On 1, ἀμφορῆς is nom pl.

On 2, I'll fix those.

On 3 and 4, I'll have a think and get back to you

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Mallioch commented Sep 2, 2019

[...looks up forms for ἀμφορεύς...]

Well, I guess that clears that up :)

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