ek in Iliad 1:204

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Bert
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ek in Iliad 1:204

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Can some one explain what ἔκ means in ἀλλ’ ἔκ τοι ἐρέω, τὸ δὲ καὶ τελέεσθαι ὀίω

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Here it is an adverb modifying ἐρέω "I will say it out of myself", which later became a preverb. You can also say that ἔκ...ἐρέω is a tmesis for ἐξερέω

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Thanks Skylax,
I was just getting started in the next chapter and there I saw [size=150]ἐξείρω[/size] as a vocabulary word. I figured that this may the answer to my question.
I would not have been able to figure out the meaning as an adverb though.

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Preverbs were initally adverbs, they say.

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