Ο4ν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος.
Thanks in advance.
I cannot figure out the meaning of
ο4ν
in the sentence above.
And one more question, is this right to translate it like this?
ο4ν The gods love the young dies.
(from A new introduction to greek, lesson 15, Reading)
What does this mean? Please help.
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Hi, yuna.
It's the masculine accusative singular of the relative pronoun ο3ς ‐ η3 ‐ ο3. So it means "who", or in this case "he who" is probably better.
It's the masculine accusative singular of the relative pronoun ο3ς ‐ η3 ‐ ο3. So it means "who", or in this case "he who" is probably better.
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[size=150]φιλοῦσιν[/size] and ἀποθνῄσκει are verbs, so ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν means roughly:
"The gods love the one who..."
and the rest means
"...dies young."
(I think it means that he dies young because the gods love him, rather than the gods love him because he dies young. But I'm not certain. Perhaps someone with more Greek knowledge than I have is needed to say for sure.)
"The gods love the one who..."
and the rest means
"...dies young."
(I think it means that he dies young because the gods love him, rather than the gods love him because he dies young. But I'm not certain. Perhaps someone with more Greek knowledge than I have is needed to say for sure.)
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"(he) whom the gods love dies young." It's the first meaning.Eureka wrote:(I think it means that he dies young because the gods love him, rather than the gods love him because he dies young. But I'm not certain.
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