Are there second / third person dual Participles?

Greek Learning Greek
1

I am just curious whether there are second / third person dual participles?

2

Participles don’t have personal endings – they’re just inflected for gender, number and case. But there are, at least in theory, dual forms for participles in Attic Greek. The dual forms are probably rather rare, and there would be just four forms, since the masculine and neuter forms are identical, and the nominative and accusative forms and genitive and dative forms for masc./neut. and for feminine are identical:

(1) masc./neut. nom./acc.,

(2) masc./neut. gen./dat.,

(3) fem. nom./acc., and

(4) fem. gen./dat.

3

Any beginning grammar which includes all the paradigms in the appendices usually includes the dual forms. As Hylander, notes they are very rare, but easily recognized from context if you should run across them.

4

I actually ran into one this morning, reading the next section of Bowen’s Unseens:

ὅτι δυοῖν ἰσοτήτοιν νομιζομέναιν εἶναι

5

Thank you all for your help!