Pronomen Abundans and Pronomen Coniunctum. A ... - DWC

PRONOMEN ABUNDANS AND PRONOMEN CONIUNCTUM 67
Mach. 252,34-6 ... ó {twè(! Ti;ovàv Movar(!~ç, TClv è1p~ÀWaéV ó (!~yaç
"ai ó à{tt(!áJ..À'fJç rov g"naév, "ai àyánav rov nOÀÀá, ó noioç ~rov rp(!ÓVt{toç
"a{JaÀM(!'fJç, èvvotáar'fJv ...
One gets the impression that Machairas, when beginning this relat.
clause, had in mind only to inform the reader about the function this
man had, i.e. that he was an admiral 219 • While doing this he changed his
mind and started to give some more information. And so, following the
train of his thoughts, he continued by way of parataxis and used no
longer relat. pronouns, but pers. pronouns. Finally, however, he used
again arelat. pronoun ó noloç.
Mach. 632,9-11 ... "al 'fJv(!av rov I:a(!a,,'fJvov rov a"M{Jov rov è{Janrtaav
"al è,,(!á;av rov Tov{taa~v ...
The relat. clause is essential, because the subject of the story is "the
Saracene slave who had been baptized and called Thomas". It is not the
kind of clause where one should expect a continuation by way of parataxis.
Machairas may have been induced to doing so by his wish to emphasize
the name of the slave, Thomas, as the story continu es as follows: ó noloç
à(!v~O'fJ1I ro {Jánna{ta1l.
The following example is very similar to this one:
Dig. Akr. E 262-3
Tijv ÛXéÇ ûç rov ará{JÀov aov "al ÛXéÇ r'fJv "al a"M{Jav,
......... . ........ ènoi"éç r'fJv "v(!áv aov.
This clause is also essential and there is also strong emphasis on the
words ÛXéÇ r'fJ1I "al a"M{Ja1l.
3.3.3. Pronomen Mundans
Two examples have been found where r01l rij1l ro is followed by a genuine
pronomen coniunctum. In these cases this name is not appropriate, however,
because there is no need of clarification at all. The term "pronomen
abundans" suits this phenomenon better. I suspect that in both cases
the text is corrupt, and that f?r three reasons : 1. the relat. clauses are
both essential, 2. there is no further evidence of the possibility of rov
rij1l ro being followed by a genuine pronomen coniunctum, 3. in both cases
the text-tradition is not certain.
Velth. 259-60
Tov 0'13" èrpOáaav rov noTè rà {JéÀ'fJ nvv' E(!wrwv,
IW(!WXtÀw"ará15a(!rov éVOVÇ và rov not~aovv ...
The version of the Ms r01l 0'13" ècpOáaa1lra has been corrected by the
editor 220.
II ovÀoÀ. 89 "t àn' rijv m"(!tàv rijv ÛXéÇ r'fJv "ai nétvav, ranétvÉ {t~v .••
219 Cf. Mach. 96,17-9, 178,37-180,2 and 220,3-5, discussed in 3.2.1.
220 I prefer to correct the vers ion of the Ms into TOV ot!" lrpf)áaav-ro nOTf; ",J..
For rpf)ávOflat instead of rpf)ávw see Hatzidakis, Einleitung, pp. 195 ff. and MNE I,
p. 439.