10 PRONOMEN ABUNDANS AND PRONOMEN OONIUNOTUM spoken language of that time. This applies especially to the period af ter the 6th century. Unfortunately in these texts occur almost no instances of either pronomen abundans or pronomen coniunctum! It is underst<strong>and</strong>able, therefore, that many of our observations on the language used during this period must be suppositions based upon the factual situation in the Koine <strong>and</strong> Modern Greek.
PART I ANCIENT GREEK AND KOINE 1. THE PRONOMEN ABUNDANS IN ANCIENT GREEK The Ancient Greek texts left to us do not give us the impression that th is idiom was very popular among the authors. In the texts from Homer until the 4th century B.C. only ten instances have been found. And thus in the grammar of Kühner-Gerth only a note, an "Anmerkung" is devoted to the subject 1. l.1. The examples in K ühner-Gerth Hdt. IV 44,1 ... f3ovÄ6ftevoç 'Ivè'Jov n07:aftóv, 8ç 'X[!o'Xoè'JeO.ovç è'Jev'te[!oç 0 {j't 0 ç n07:aftwv náv'twv na[!éxe7:at, 'tov'tov 'tov no'taftov eiè'Jévat 'tti èç ()á).,aaaav è'Xè'Jtè'Jo ï . .. 2 • PI., Phaedo 99B 8 è'J1} ftOt g;a{vov'tat 1p'fJ).,ag;wvuç olnoÀÀoi wane[! èv a'Xóut, àÀÀo't[!tcp ovóftan n[!oax[!wftevot, wç atnov a'lho n[!oaayo[!evetv. Xen., R.L. 10,4 Tóè'Je yè W;jV 'tov Av'Xov[!yov nwç ov fteyá).,wç açwv àyaa() ijVat; 8ç ènetè'J~ 'Xadfta()ev, ön ol ft~ f3ovÄ6ftevot lntfteA.eïa()at 'tijç à[!e'tijç OVX [MVO{ eiat 'tàç na't[!{è'Jaç av$etv, è'Xelvoç èv 'tti Iná[!7:Tl ~váy'Xaae . .. Eur., Phoen. 1595 ff. . . . wç ft' 19;vaaç ä.e).,wv 'Xai 7:).,1}ftov', ............•.. 8v 'Xai n[!iv lç g;wç ft'fJ7:[!OÇ è'X yovijç ft0).,eïv, ayovov 'Anó).,).,wv Aatep ft' è()éantaev g;ovéa yevéa()at na7:[!óç ... 3 . On the question why authors use a pronomen abundans Kühner-Gerth express themselves with great caution. They merely say that it is do ne for clearness' sake, i.e. when the relat. clause is interrupted by another clause or when the relat. clause itself happens to be long. Moulton 4 1 Kühner-Gerth Il, p. 433-4, Anm. 2. 2 They comment upon this quotation as follows: "Hier deutet das Demonstrativ auf einen zu ergänzenden Gedanken hin: welcher - und zwar ist dies der zweite unter allen Flüssen - ", comparing it to Hdt. I 25 àVÉ{}rl'~E (je bupvywv T~V vovuov IJetTrEeOç OVTOÇ Tijç ol"{1'}ç TatlT1'}ç ••• "e1'}Tijea, "er weihte - und er war der zweite aus diesem Hause - einen Krater". See also Kühner-Gerth I, pp. 660-1. 3 In Kühner-Gerth I, p. 642 we find among some other quotations Eur., I.A. 155-6 ucpeayi(ja qnJÀaulf' ijv inl (jÉÀTlP / T~V(jE "op.tt;uç. In such a case the demonstr. pronoun T~V(jE cannot be viewed as a pronomen abundans . Whether a pronomen abundans is really superfluous or not has still to be decided, but in a case like this T~V(jE certainly is not. It has its usual demonstrative force, denoting something or somebody who is present or (in a play, for instanee) coming on to the stage. Cf. Hom. A 612 (Kühner-Gerth, l.c.), where the demonstr. pronoun occurs in an interrogative clause: NÉUTOe' EeEW, / övTtva TOVTOV liyE! . See also Eur., Andr. 649-50 ... lJIà yvvai"a f3áef3aeov, / ijv xefiv u' iÀavvuv T~V(j' vnee NelÀov éoáç . .., <strong>and</strong> 709-10 ... "al naiç liTEXVOÇ, ijv Ö y' i~ TJp.wv yEywÇ / iMf. IJl' ol"wv T~V(j' imunáuaç "óp.1'}ç. See also note 8. 4 Moulton, Proleg., p. 95.