The deadline job completed, I can spend a bit more time reading Greek.
I ran across a few problems that require some help.
The story I'm reading is called: a Greek Boy at Home.
1. In my first difficulty the Greek boy gives a description of some of the wildlife in the forest.
[size=150]ἄγρια οὖν ταῦτα τὰ δένδρα, ἄγριοι δὲ καὶ οἱ δρυμοί.
ἐν δὲ τῇ ὕλῃ καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐν τοῖς δρυμοῖς μάλιστα οἰκεῖ τὰ ἄγρια ζῷα, περὶ ὧν υς(/στερον.[/size]
The first part does not make a lot of sense to me; These trees then are wild, wild but also shrubs (undergrowth).
The next sentence; But in the bush but also in the undergrowth especially live the wildlife,....I don't understand περὶ ὧν υς(/στερον. at all.
2.My second problem is when the boy describes how they raise birds (Chickens, I quess) for the eggs. He then says; ὢ τοῦ φιλανθρώπου ὀρνιθίου
Oh mankind loving birds or Oh kind birds
My translation is as if it was Vocative, but it is in the Genitive.
What's happening?
A Greek Boy at Home
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Re: A Greek Boy at Home
"About which later" I think.Bert wrote:I don't understand περὶ ὧν υς(/στερον. at all.
"Oh, what human-loving birds!" is what I'd say. Smyth 1407, though the L&S says that it ὤ can take vocative (which seems more usual) or genitive.2.My second problem is when the boy describes how they raise birds (Chickens, I quess) for the eggs. He then says; ὢ τοῦ φιλανθρώπου ὀρνιθίου
Oh mankind loving birds or Oh kind birds
My translation is as if it was Vocative, but it is in the Genitive.
What's happening?
EDIT: Goodwin 1124, "The genitive is sometimes used in exclamations, to give the cause of the astonishment."
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/ — http://www.scholiastae.org/
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τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
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