Interesting use of ἐκτός

Greek Learning Greek
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Dear all,

I stumbled across an interesting use of ἐκτός recently, and was wondering how best to turn it into English. The sentence is very short; for context, I also give what precedes it:

ὁ δὲ θυμὸς περιόριστον ἔχει τέλος ἀντιλυπῆσαι τὸν λυπήσαντα·

“But anger has the definite goal of causing harm to the person who has caused harm.”

This is followed by:

ὁ γὰρ λυπήσας ἐκτός.

I am tempted to read this as: ‘Because once anger has caused harm it departs [from the soul?]’, but I’m not sure whether ἐκτός can be read this way. From the context, I think ὁ takes up θυμὸς not τὸν λυπήσαντα. In any case I would love to hear your views on this pithy little phrase.

Best wishes for 2016!

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This evidently belongs in a larger context where it would make more sense. ὁ must go with λυπήσας, not θυμος. As it stands it means “for the person who caused harm is outside”—outside of the matter under discussion, perhaps? If so, we could say “extrinsic.”

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