[] κοπιουσιν (β/03 in Mt 6:28) Jonathan Borland jborland at lwconline.com
Sun Dec 28 20:01:28 εστ 2003
[] Prepositions [] κοπιουσιν (β/03 in Mt 6:28) Hello List,According to NA27, Codex Vaticanus in Mt 6:28 has κοπιουσιν for κοπιωσιν. Is there a word κοπιοω in the Gr language, or is this an error or iticism? If the latter, why did NA27 include it? Was there a time when –αω verbs were allowed to be contracted as –οω verbs? Was there a time when –αω contract verbs used –ου– to distinguish present indicative from present subjunctive?Jonathan BorlandLakeland, φλ
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[] κοπιουσιν (β/03 in Mt 6:28) Stephen ξ. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Sun Dec 28 22:54:12 εστ 2003
[] κοπιουσιν (β/03 in Mt 6:28) [] κοπιουσιν (β/03 in Mt 6:28) At 08:01 πμ 12/28/03 -0500, Jonathan Borland wrote:>According to NA27, Codex Vaticanus in Mt 6:28 has κοπιουσιν for >κοπιωσιν. Is there a word κοπιοω in the Gr language, or is this an >error or iticism? If the latter, why did NA27 include it? Was there a >time when –αω verbs were allowed to be contracted as –οω verbs? Was >there a time when –αω contract verbs used –ου– to distinguish present >indicative from present subjunctive?This is discussed in Blass-Debrunner-Funk § 90 (Confusion ofparadigms in –αν and –ειν), where “[t]here are some traces inKoine of a mixture of –αν and –ειν, resulting in a singleparadigm in which ου appears for ω and the corresponding formsfrom –αν for ει.” In the notes, Moulton & Howard 195 is citedfor a fuller treatment.Note that βδφ incorrectly cites Matt 6:28 δ as an example ofthis, since δ is lacunose here and β has the variant. Anotherexample with the same verb is Rom 16:12 where P46 and 1738read κοπιουσασ.Stephen Carlson– Stephen ξ. Carlson mailto:scarlson at mindspring.comWeblog: http://www.mindspring.com/~scarlson/hypotyposeis/blogger.html”Poetry speaks of aspirations, and songs chant the words.” Shujing 2.35
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[] κοπιουσιν (β/03 in Mt 6:28) Carl ω. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Dec 29 06:55:39 εστ 2003
[] κοπιουσιν (β/03 in Mt 6:28) [] τελη and κηνσον in Mt 17:25 At 8:01 πμ -0500 12/28/03, Jonathan Borland wrote:>Hello List,> >According to NA27, Codex Vaticanus in Mt 6:28 has κοπιουσιν for>κοπιωσιν. Is there a word κοπιοω in the Gr language, or is this an>error or iticism? If the latter, why did NA27 include it? Was there a>time when –αω verbs were allowed to be contracted as –οω verbs? Was>there a time when –αω contract verbs used –ου– to distinguish present>indicative from present subjunctive?No, there is no κοπιοω; ι think that κοπιου=σιν (i.e. circumflexed υ) issimply a scribal error. ι think that the question under discussion in thecritical apparatus is not so much the form of the 3d plural but the factthat plurals are used in the negative clauses whereas some μσσ have thesingular αυχανει in the πωσ clause. Nor do ι think that Greek-speakers eversought to distinguish the indicative from the subjunctive in verbs wherethe contraction produced the same sound.There is a prosodic feature of the Epic (i.e. Homeric) dialect–only inhexameter verse–termed “diectasis”–re-lengthening of ω (omega) resultingfrom contraction into οω for the sake of making a word fit metrically intothe hexameter rhythm; thus τιμωσι(ν) deriving from contracted TIMAOUSINmight in Homeric verse be spelled out and pronounced τιμοωσιν. But this isa matter of protraction of the ο-sound into an extra syllable; it’s not atall a matter of using a form like κοπιου=σιν as an indicative of κοπιαωσιν.ι think this is pretty clearly a matter of scribal error.This is really a text-critical question, and we don’t normally deal withtext-critical questions on . ι‘ve responded to it because it raisesa question of morphological usage, and ι thought it important that thesuggestion that there was any deliberate distinction of subjunctive andindicative forms of contract verbs needed to be scotched.– Carl ω. ConradDepartment of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, νξ 28714/(828) 675-4243cwconrad at artsci.wustl.eduWWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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