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XPH and ΔEI.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Thomas D. Goodell
Affiliation:
Yale University.

Extract

The words χρ⋯ and δεῖ with their inflectional and dialectic variations, are less definite and stable in their semantic range than the other Greek expressions for the general ideas of necessity, obligation, or propriety. Their semantic boundaries varied with the dialect, province of literature, and period–which cannot, indeed, be entirely separated. From Homer to Aristotle there is a steady trend, so plain that the slight notice taken of it is rather surprising. Everyone sees that the two are sometimes differentiated; yet it seems to be loosely taken for granted that they are substantially equivalent, and that either may, almost anywhere, be taken as an equivalent of the verbal in -τ⋯ος. The statements in Liddell and Scott under χρ⋯ present an admirable confusion of all periods and styles, and J. H. H. Schmidt, with no mention of dates, makes a distinction that resembles a reversal of the true relation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1914

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References

page 91 note 1 Synonymik der gr. Sprache, III. p. 704 sq.‘Der Unterschied liegt jedoch so, dass δει eine viel nähere Beziehung auf wirkliche Pflichten hat, namentlich auf solche der Gottheit gegen-über … dass δει bezeichne das der höheren Anordnung entsprechende, während χρή mehr das der Zeit und den Umständen entsprechende bedeutet.’

page 91 note 2 A recent study of this kind is ‘Shall andWill–an Historical Study,’ by Professor Bradley, C. B., in Trans. Am. Philol. Assoc. XLII.(1911), pp. 531.Google Scholar

page 96 note 1 From Religion to Philosophy, p. 11.

page 101 note 1 Although due care has been taken,the accuracy of my count is notguaranteed, nor is any stress laid on slight differences.The figures should be treated as approximate.