234e

Post Reply
User avatar
Constantinus Philo
Textkit Zealot
Posts: 1404
Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:04 pm

234e

Post by Constantinus Philo »

ἐπεὶ ἐμέ γε ἔλαθεν
is this elathen impersonal?
Semper Fidelis

User avatar
Constantinus Philo
Textkit Zealot
Posts: 1404
Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:04 pm

Re: 234e

Post by Constantinus Philo »

or rather the subject is 'the fact that the poet should say what ought to be said' understood from the context.
Semper Fidelis

User avatar
Constantinus Philo
Textkit Zealot
Posts: 1404
Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:04 pm

Re: 234e

Post by Constantinus Philo »

cf 237c: τοὺς δὲ πολλοὺς λέληθεν ὅτι οὐκ ἴσασι τὴν οὐσίαν ἑκάστου
i think here it is impersonal
Semper Fidelis

mwh
Textkit Zealot
Posts: 4791
Joined: Fri Oct 18, 2013 2:34 am

Re: 234e

Post by mwh »

Well, we don’t actually need to decide: “I didn’t notice,” he says—what or whom he didn’t notice is left unspecified. But surely the subject is the person they’re talking about here—we have εἰρηκότος τοῦ ποιητοῦ just above, and μοι ἔδοξεν etc. (personal!) just below. So “he” must be the subject.

237c is quite different. The subject there is the ὅτι clause.

Post Reply