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Emphatic Use of the Participle

Emphatic Use of the Participle 234 trition and growth. We may for instance quote a text from the De Gener. Anisn. : lj yocp S'arLv xoclt è1; auwaTaTa? , Now if, in opposition to the earlier Stoics, Panaetius defends a classification of the vital functions which, as regards the xóv, agrees with these Aristotelian data, it seems reasonable to ask whether in this case we are perhaps justified to speak of a conscious borrowing from Aristotle, the more so as we know from a statement in the Stoicorum Index H erculanensis that Panaetius was and, in addition to this, Cicero tells us that in his conversation he continually mentioned the name of Aristotle 3). 1) De Gener. Anim. II, 4 (74o b 34-741 a 2). Cf. ibid. II, 1 (735 a y-i8; 736 b 26-27). 2) Fragm. 57 (ed. van Straaten). 3) Fragm. 55 (ed. van Straaten). HAARLEM, Zijlweg 199. EMPHATIC USE OF THE PARTICIPLE It is well-known that the participle may express the main idea of the sentence (cf. Kfhner-Gerth, II, 98-99). Yet this fact seems to have some- times escaped observation. When Callinus (frag. i, 5) says xai Ty cxTuoO?TjoxM? ÖO"'t"OCT' &.XO\lTLO"cXTCù, this does not mean "let every man cast his javelin once more as he dies" (Edmonds), but "let every man cast his javelin for the last time not before he dies". Similarly, when Xenophanes (frag. 2, 10-II) says E?TS xoct ?7rTCOLCYLV, TKUTK xe 1tcXVTOC Xd?(0[. oux i6v &O"1tEp iy6, this does not mean "auch wenn nur sein Gespann siegte, bekommt er all das; ohne mir gleichzukommen an Wert" (Frankel, Dichtung u. Philos., 425, followed by Untersteiner, Seno f ane, 1956, II3), but "even if his victory will be with horses [which won a man the highest fame among the Greeks], he will not deserve to receive all these honours, whereas I do deserve to receive them". Accordingly, we should not put a comma or a dash after X&xoi. For the adversative use of cf. Soph. El. 992-4 e? qppev&v / £<6yxav' ZEIST, Homeruslaan 53 W. J. VERDENIUS http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Emphatic Use of the Participle

Mnemosyne , Volume 9 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 1956

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234 trition and growth. We may for instance quote a text from the De Gener. Anisn. : lj yocp S'arLv xoclt è1; auwaTaTa? , Now if, in opposition to the earlier Stoics, Panaetius defends a classification of the vital functions which, as regards the xóv, agrees with these Aristotelian data, it seems reasonable to ask whether in this case we are perhaps justified to speak of a conscious borrowing from Aristotle, the more so as we know from a statement in the Stoicorum Index H erculanensis that Panaetius was and, in addition to this, Cicero tells us that in his conversation he continually mentioned the name of Aristotle 3). 1) De Gener. Anim. II, 4 (74o b 34-741 a 2). Cf. ibid. II, 1 (735 a y-i8; 736 b 26-27). 2) Fragm. 57 (ed. van Straaten). 3) Fragm. 55 (ed. van Straaten). HAARLEM, Zijlweg 199. EMPHATIC USE OF THE PARTICIPLE It is well-known that the participle may express the main idea of the sentence (cf. Kfhner-Gerth, II, 98-99). Yet this fact seems to have some- times escaped observation. When Callinus (frag. i, 5) says xai Ty cxTuoO?TjoxM? ÖO"'t"OCT' &.XO\lTLO"cXTCù, this does not mean "let every man cast his javelin once more as he dies" (Edmonds), but "let every man cast his javelin for the last time not before he dies". Similarly, when Xenophanes (frag. 2, 10-II) says E?TS xoct ?7rTCOLCYLV, TKUTK xe 1tcXVTOC Xd?(0[. oux i6v &O"1tEp iy6, this does not mean "auch wenn nur sein Gespann siegte, bekommt er all das; ohne mir gleichzukommen an Wert" (Frankel, Dichtung u. Philos., 425, followed by Untersteiner, Seno f ane, 1956, II3), but "even if his victory will be with horses [which won a man the highest fame among the Greeks], he will not deserve to receive all these honours, whereas I do deserve to receive them". Accordingly, we should not put a comma or a dash after X&xoi. For the adversative use of cf. Soph. El. 992-4 e? qppev&v / £<6yxav' ZEIST, Homeruslaan 53 W. J. VERDENIUS

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Published: Jan 1, 1956

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