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Observations on Epic ’AΛΛA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. C. Moorhouse
Affiliation:
University College, Swansea

Extract

The following notes are the result of an examination of all the early Epic passages containing ⋯λλ⋯ which I made for the purposes of the lexicon of Homer and the older Epic now under preparation by the Archiv für griechische Lexikographie at Hamburg. The texts surveyed were Homer, including the Hymns, Hesiod, and the Epic fragments. I also examined Apollonius Rhodius for the purpose of comparison.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1952

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page 100 note 1 Thus at K 494, Λ 737, μ 181.

page 101 note 1 Denniston, , Greek Particles, pp. 2122Google Scholar, allows a progressive ⋯λλ⋯, which he finds most often in Hippocrates: but he has no examples from Homer, and says that verse examples generally are few. His earliest verse example is from Hartung, Alcman., Lehre von den Parti-keln der griechischen Sprache, ii, pp. 3435Google Scholar says of ⋯λλ⋯ (‘im responsiven Gebrauch’) that ‘es einen Ubergang zu etwas Verschiedenem oder Entgegengesetztem ausdriickt’ (my italics). But his examples do not bring out the sense of something different which is not also in opposition. Schwyzer, , Griechische Grammatik, ii, p. 578Google Scholar, will not ad it progressive ⋯λλ⋯ at all.

page 103 note 1 Hdn. Gr. 2. 122. 3 Lentz

page 104 note 1 So in the striking case of κελαινεΦ⋯ς, which he explains as properly an epithet of Zeus: its use as an epithet of αἷμα is due to a misunderstanding of a context where it was a vocative address to Zeus, but was thought to be an attribute of αἷμα Op. cit., pp. 202–6.