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84 PRONOMEN ABUNDANS AND PRONOMEN CONIUNCTUM
2.3. A remaining problem
Apart from the fact that the texts written during the period from the
4th until the IOth century 273 offer so few examples and that some among
these may be cases of Semitic influence, there is a question which must
be asked, although it cannot be answered as yet. Is it not strange that
authors who are generally considered as people who wrote a simple kind
of Greek and of ten admitted elements of common speech into their
writings, never used a pronomen abundans ~ I think of authors as Palladius,
Moschus, Leontius, Malalas 274, the author of the Ghronicon Paschale,
Theophanes Confessor etc. etc. Had the idiom become extinct perhaps
and must the examples we discussed in the preceding paragraph all be
regarded as being caused by the influence of the LXX and the NT ~
Or did this idiom not occur at all in common speech and was it actually a
nicety of literary Greek ~ 275.
2.4. Later examples
Some later examples prove that by no means the pronomen abundans
had become extinct. They stem from the 14th and 15th centuries.
2.4.1. Alchimiae apparatio
This is a collection of alchemical recipes, which form part of the Codex
Holkhamicus of the 14th century. The following instances of a very odd
use of Snee accompanied by a pronomen abundans have been pointed
out by Tabachovitz 276. '
F 6-8 Taxv àvaÄ:ve-rat eiç f5t5we elç -&eel-'~V xone{av TOV àMyov' Snee Tà
f5t5we aVTà oVTWÇ àvaAV61-'evov t5Vva-rat È'X TOVTOV yevÉIJ-&at Ó "Ae1Jç.
G 1-2 Tà t5i f5t5we TijÇ Cwijç yevviiTat àn' aVT6' Snee OVTWÇ y{ve-rat 'Ii IJ'XevaIJ{a
aVTov.
2.4.2. Byz. Alex.
3129-30
(nç à~e È'X TWV IIeeIJwv)
\, n {3 , \ - ~I ~ ,
1'0 Taxoç IJvAI'oal-' aveTat naea TWV ma'Xeuovwv'
öç 'AAe~ávt5eqJ naeaIJTáç, Uyet n(!àç TOVTOV OVTOÇ 277.
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278 The Vita Euthymii has been composed between 920 and 925 (see the edition,
pp. 9-10).
274 Cf. von Stepski Doliwa, p. 65, who also finds it "auffallend" that Malalas
offers the pronomen abundam only in two quotations from the LXX.
276 Cf. I 1.7.
278 Tabachovitz, Études, pp. 14-5.
277 More examples of oç in the nom., followed by a pronomen abundam, are: 437- 9
iE dxo)'áOTOV yde 'nvoç ly)evor; uV )eaTéOT1'Jç, / oç elç Tdç XEÏ(laç Tdç i/Aáç TaX{OTwç i,.mUJEÏTa"
/ )eall5"'1JV OUTOÇ • • • I5wUE' •.., 1657-9 UyOVTEÇ n(loç • AUEavl5(lov •••, / cór; MQ)eEl5óva l5ei
nva IIE(luóYv )ealhkiv )e(láTOÇ. / ·Or; )eal nE(l,xCJ(!'Yjr; aUTOr; YEVÓ/AEVOr; èx ToVrov, / dvél5(la/AE •..,
2263-6 W E(lxaa, .. • n(lounEudJv elç nól5aç • AkEávl5(lov, / .. • • or; 17(lEaTO )eal /Aé).or; /
••. neourpf}éyyEufhn .. . / ..., aUTOr; ).éyuv ..•, 4429-31 n).Vva, POV).ó/AEVOr; a1ÏTó
(lzli'vo'rde'xov) . • .. / 0 )eal p(laxEv ... )eaTE1;,wwlhJ / a1ÏTàr; Tdr; XEÏ(lar; èxrpvydv i)eE ivo
TOO /AayEl(lov .•.