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The Demonstrative Adjectives in Herodotus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2015

A.P. Treweek*
Affiliation:
University of Sydney

Extract

The year 1960 was something of a vintage for Greek word order; at least four relevant books appeared, the most specific being that of Jonas Palm, the most general that of Dover. Dover in his opening chapter shrewdly points out the dangers in customary procedure for the examination of the topic. Heeding his warning, I hope that I have steered a safe course between the Scylla of the particular and the Charybdis of the general, and that I have not been sailing in circles.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australasian Society for Classical Studies 1981

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References

* The following special abbreviations and Sigla are used:

Bergson = Bergson, Leif, Zur Stellung des Adjektivs in der älteren griechischen Prosa (Stockholm 1960), 60–1Google Scholar, 98-103, 167-8

Brunei = Brunei, Jean, La construction de l’adjectifdans lesgroupes nominaux du grec (Paris 1963), 102–12Google Scholar

Denniston = Denniston, J.D., Greek Prose Style (Oxford 1960)Google Scholar, Chap. 3

Dover = Dover, K.J., Greek Word Order (Cambridge 1960)Google Scholar, Chap. 4

Hude = Herodoti Historiae, ed. Hude, Carolus (O.C.T.) (Oxford 1940)Google Scholar

Palm = Palm, Jonas, ZurFunktion und Stellung des attributiven Demonstrativums in griechischen (Lund 1960)Google Scholar

Powell = Powell, J. Enoch, A Lexicon to Herodotus (Cambridge 1938)Google Scholar

1 Dover 35 n. 5; Bergson 11; Palm 4.

2 Harry, J.E., ‘The Omission of the Article with Substantives after ούτος, δδε, εκείνος in Prose’. TAPA 29 (1898), 4864.Google Scholar

3 Powell s.v. ό A II 2, 3.

4 There are 82 examples of relationship words anarthrous, mostly in speeches, and 63 of βασιλεύς. This use is not a matter of familiar speech, as Schwyzer suggests. With the possessive adjective NoK:oNoK 21:3.

5 Powell s.v. όστις 2. a b c e needs some re-examination. Brunei 103: ‘Quant à son absence éventuelle, elle ne peut répondre en aucun cas à une valeur proprement indéfinie.’

6 This suggests a preference for the anarthrous instrumental; semantically it is a very short list: χερσί ώμοισι δυνάμι φύσι, τρόπω νόμω νόμοισι, όλεθρωψυχτ\σι, 'όχω νηοσι. ΝοΑ31:οΝοΑ2.

7 Deictic δδε. All in speeches except the epigram. Add to Powell's list 5.49.5* bis before: 5.49.5*, 6* bis after, all proper names. NP 1.206.2; 3.21.3; 4.118.4; 5.49.6; 5.77.5s epigram: 7.8a.2, 35.2s; 8.65.5, 140ß.2; 9.27.1. NP 1.9.1, 108.5; 4.9.4; 5.49.6.

8 Emphasis is always relative, and is indicated here only crudely; to mark the varying degrees of emphasis in a sentence would need something as elaborate as anopera score.

9 referring forward. Hude anarthrous, rightly: 1.31.2*; 3.3.1; 5.6.1; 7.167.1; 8.135.5::2.43.1, 131.1.

10 PN 2.169.2; 3.21.3*; 4.139.1, 179.1. PQN 2.166.1; 3.100.

11 Internal object NP 2.65.4; 3.137.2, 160.1; 4.148.4; 7.8a.l*; 8.111.2. NqP 2.115.4, 156.4;6.56. NsP2.177.2;5.45.1;7.5.3;8.137.4;9.120.3*. With . 1.16.2. Internal subject NqP 2.48.3. NsP 1.132.1; 2.17.5, 38.3; 4.?23.3; 6.23.3. Existence NP 3.128.4, 153.1. NsP 2.168.1; 7.123.3. Have opinion NP 2.56.1. Use NP 2.147.3. Prep. pNqP 2.164.2. pNAMP 1.70.2. Postp. NqP 4.135.2. Acc. respectNP1.99.1;2.41.1 θεούς μούνους?^??4.59.1. PsTN5.7. HAP7.109.1 bis.

12 Proper names NP 4.150.2; 6.127.4. Common all* 1.31.5,35.4; 2.39.3,114.3,115.6; 4.9.3, 97.3; 5.19.2, 20.1, 2; 7.49.1, 130.1, 209.2. 1.160.5 refers back rather (deictic arthrous Powell).

13 The examples with numbers are preceded by lists of proper names. 1.102.2 probably δύο ταύτα εθνεα κα'ι αμφότερα ισχυρά 4.37 asyndeton! ταύτα τέσσερα εθνεα 6.98. 2 τριών τοοτεων επεζίις χενέων really a weak central demonstrative.

14 For9.11.2* see note 4.

15 See Denniston, Chap. 3; Dover, Chap. 4; Bergson 101–8 passim.

16 Palm 24.

17 Central 3 οδε 27 ούτος (8.47 is not an example). Preceded by:

ώυτός(16) 1.44.2, 187.1, 185.2; 3.131.3; 4.35.1,38.2,145.1,147.1; 5.77.2; 6.27.2,

69.3*, 92J; 7.15.3*, 151; 8.15.1; 9.98.4 suspect,

participle (5) 2.212.2*; 9.60.3* (both όδε); 4.92; 7.127.2; 8.135.2.

number (1) 7.83.1.

proper adjective (5) 4.81.4; 6.22.2; 7.199; 9.14, 33.5.

proper noun genitive (1) 8.119.

common noun as adjective (1) 4.19.

But note the effect of separators in

7.160.1 τον τελευτάίόν σφι τόνδε έξέφαινε λόγον