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4.2.4.4.2. "Exceptions"
The title of this paragraph is somewhat surpnsmg and certainly exaggerated,
but if one considers that there are only a few cases of a nonessen
ti al clause introduced by ó notoç where a resumpt. pronoun does
not occur, it is at least understandable.
Some of these "exceptions" have been mentioned in 4.2.4.2.l. We
have se en 44,31-5, where the omission of a resumpt. pronoun may have
been caused by the author's desire to show that the antecedent and the
relat. cl au se form a close union (the relat. clause must be considered
then as essential). In 678,9-11, discussed in the same paragraph, the
resumpt. pronoun (r:ovç) may have been omitted, because otherwise the
reader would have understood "to whom the Christians gave ... ".
Machairas, however, had in mind (I quote from the translation by Dawkins)
"tor whom the Christians charitably sent much money to those places".
And now we see that the word è'Xû is actually a sort of resumpt. pronoun:
it clarifies somewhat the obscure relat. pronoun and sees to it that the
verb Èów'Xav is better understood.
Here follow some more "exceptional" cases:
32,6-8 )fEXët noÀÀovç a,1,Äovç önov ovbèv èq;aveewOijaav, 7:0Vç nolovç "al
r:ovç ëlvwfJsv và Jweu'XuÀOVftSV và JWeu'XuÀürovv 'Xvewv r:àv fJsàv và ...
A reason for the omission of a resumpt. pronoun may have been the
presence of the second object of nueu'XaÀovftsv, r:ovç avwfJsv.
262,2-4 ... 'Xat và ftá.ç óó1JYf!. 'Xar:à r:èç àalt;sç ftaç, r:èç noisç Ot fta'Xaetaftévot
e1Jyábeç . .. Ènoi'Xuv r:ovr:a r:à 'XaÀà avv1JfJla r:ov aViov e1Jyár:ov.
In this example the relat. pronoun is actually resumed, not by a pers.
pronoun (r:èç), but by the phrase r:ovr:a -r:à 'XuÀà avv1JfJla 'XiÀ. 244 •
There are some more "exceptional" cases, but I have kept them apart from
the other ones, because they constitute a limited group. These are cases
of ó noioç accompanied by a preposition. It appears that Machairas
never used the resumpt. pronoun in such cases.
346,9-11 'XUt Ëów'Xsv iOVÇ ftavr:aiOrp6eovç u' ftseu'Xàv ày'Xeiu àeyveà và
-r:à rpéeovv iOV e1Jy6ç ftéau elç r:à no ia Ëns1jJsv [vav nor:~etV àeyveàv ...
More examples are 88,20, 334,1l, 350,33, 474,28 and 532,l.
4.2.4.5. Astrange use ot r:à notov
The Ohronicle offers some instances where the neuter singular of ó notoç
is used in a very strange way. One gets the impression that r:à notov is a
fossilized word and has been reduced to a mere connective, for it does
not refer to an antecedent, neither does it play a part in the syntax of
the relat. clause. The only function it has is to connect the two senten ces
and to refer in a very general fashion to the foregoing. It is not surprising,
therefore, that the four examples I have found are all cases of relat.
244 Apart from 656,6-9, mentioned in 4.2.4.2.1, and the ones discussed above,
there are two more examples: 510,12 and 636,1.