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iieyov 'WtovrO "adaTrwav rovç neOete'YJ/.lÉVOVç; onov "al. Ó /.la"áetoç .. .
Movaijç rà btareraY/.lÉva avnp návra Èa'YJ/.leu»aar:o èv raiç [eeaiç (3{(3ÀOtç . . .
In this relat. connection onov has a similar meaning: "in exactly the
same way".
3.1.2.3. Causal sense
I have chosen two examples mentioned by Hesseling, who enumerates
a whole series of interpretations given by different scholars 295. It is
interesting to see how divergent these views are: another proof of how
much the sense of onov had been broadened.
1 Ep. Cor. 3,3 onov yàe Èv v/.liv CijÀoç "al. iietç, ovXl. aU(!"t"o{ Èare ... ;
2 Ep. Petr. 2,10-1 ... c5ó~aç ov reÉ/.lOvatv (3Àaaf{J'YJ/.l0vvreç, onovayyeÀot .. .
ov f{JÉeOVatV "al" avnvv naeà "ve{cp (3).áaf{J'YJ/.lov "e{atv.
I consider onov as meaning "whereas", rather than "since" or something
like that 296.
3.1.2.4. Some later examples
Mosch. 2949 B /.le7:à Ta "avaat avrov .av f{Jovevov ovx e'Ûeev iivOa
(= with what) wf{JetÀev af{Joyy{aat .av f{Jovevov.
The adverb ii1l0a is a learned substitute for the colloquial onov 297.
Leont., Sym. 1708 C ... elaeeXó/.le1loç ótà rijç nÓeT'YJç, onov nÀ'YJa{ov (= ne ar
to which) 298 Èaû1I ra aX0).{o1l ruw natbtw1I. From an example like this it
appears how the local sense of onov could change into that of what usually
is denoted by arelat. pronoun: here onov is even accompanied by an
adverb.
Id. 1717 A ov návraç ói rwnáaaTo, àÀ).' onov f; Oeov xáetç Èyvwetaev avnp.
"Onov might be regarded here as denoting ovç, or oaovç. It is better,
however, to view it as meaning something like "in each case that ... ,
whenever ... ".
3.1.3. Conclusion
It may be concluded from the foregoing examples that onov first was
broadened in its local sense and began to be used instead of all kinds of
prepositional phrases with alocal meaning. In some cases it lost even
its original local colour, which passed into a sense involving occasion
or time. It also developed a causal sense. Finally it became a connective
without a clear-cut sense, used to form a connection bet ween sentences.
Having become so general in use, it could easily replace another word
which connected sentences, the relat. pronoun 299.
295 Hesseling, IIov, p. 219. See also p. 220.
296 For more examples of ö;nov having a causal sense see Blass-Debrunner, § 456,3.
297 Cf. Jannaris, § 608, and 3.1.2.2.
298 For the position of :n;).TJGlov Rydèn refers to PaU., H.L. 152,16 ToVrov n).TJulov
KU7T.LTWV TtÇ l,.,.evev.
299 Cf. Dieterich, pp. 200 ff., Wolf, pp. 47-8, Psaltes, § 312 and Hesseling, IIov,
pp. 219 ff. For parallels in other languages see Hesseling, Ilo v, p. 220.