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Indefinite or interogative?

Postby Bert » Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:09 pm

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Postby IreneY » Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:49 pm

Well I know that τις, τινός is an enclitic but I can't for the life of me remember for sure if the definite article is one and this is the reason that τινές lost its accent mark.
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Postby perispomenon » Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:55 pm

Pharr paragraph 554 lists the indefinite pronoun τὶς, τὶ as an enclitic, so that would explain it losing the accent.

I didn't see τινες as an interrogative therefore, but as an indefinite pronoun. Not sure about how I would translate it exactly. Perhaps '(we don't know) which ones were the leaders and chiefs of the Danaans', so 'who were the leaders and chiefs of the Danaans'.
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Postby Bert » Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:13 am

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