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Sappho I, 18-19

Sappho I, 18-19 SAPPHO I, 18-19 *) BY R. VAN BENNEKOM I propose to read Sappho I, 18-19 as follows ; Thus, alsa is made the predicate of the subject-sentence r'v HetO6 Tiva The palaeographic evidence for this possibility will be discussed below; what I shall try to prove first is that the meaning of the resulting construction does not amount to much more than "Whose turn is it this time to be led by Peitho to your love?". There is a small and interesting group of nouns that admit of the type of syntax involved: lhpa, yoipa, a?6a are the most conspicuous examples. As later examples Schwyzer-Debrunner (II, 623) mention oû8dç p01voq, should be added: Thuc. IV 61, 5). Some- times the copula is expressed, more often it is not 1) ; often the noun has a possessive dative (or whatever one may wish to call it 2) ) attached to it, as in Hom. Od. 23, 287 Toc Ú7t&Àu??\I but never necessarily so: Alcaeus 117 D To 8' arocy6Xoctq It will be convenient to call the latter construction impersonal and the former personal. *) Hereby I wish to express my thanks to Professor G. J. de Vries, without whose http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Sappho I, 18-19

Van Bennekom, R.
Mnemosyne , Volume 25 (2): 113 – Jan 1, 1972
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© 1972 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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SAPPHO I, 18-19 *) BY R. VAN BENNEKOM I propose to read Sappho I, 18-19 as follows ; Thus, alsa is made the predicate of the subject-sentence r'v HetO6 Tiva The palaeographic evidence for this possibility will be discussed below; what I shall try to prove first is that the meaning of the resulting construction does not amount to much more than "Whose turn is it this time to be led by Peitho to your love?". There is a small and interesting group of nouns that admit of the type of syntax involved: lhpa, yoipa, a?6a are the most conspicuous examples. As later examples Schwyzer-Debrunner (II, 623) mention oû8dç p01voq, should be added: Thuc. IV 61, 5). Some- times the copula is expressed, more often it is not 1) ; often the noun has a possessive dative (or whatever one may wish to call it 2) ) attached to it, as in Hom. Od. 23, 287 Toc Ú7t&Àu??\I but never necessarily so: Alcaeus 117 D To 8' arocy6Xoctq It will be convenient to call the latter construction impersonal and the former personal. *) Hereby I wish to express my thanks to Professor G. J. de Vries, without whose

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