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A grammar of the Homeric dialect - Wilbourhall.org

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154 USE OF CASES. [162.<br />

<strong>of</strong> this type <strong>of</strong> sentence. The Verb has <strong>the</strong>n little or no meaning <strong>of</strong> its own,<br />

but serves to mark <strong>the</strong> following Noun as a Predicate. The final stage <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> development is reached when <strong>the</strong> Verb is omitted as being superfluous.<br />

5. With Impersonal or half-Impersonal Verbs meaning to be,<br />

&c. ;<br />

<strong>the</strong> Predicate being<br />

(a) a Neuter Adjective ;<br />

as juo'po-i/xoz;<br />

ecm it is fated ; ye/xeo--<br />

arrjrov Be* KV eiT? it would be worthy <strong>of</strong> indignation ; ov rot aeiKe's it<br />

is not unmeet for <strong>the</strong>e :<br />

with a Pronominal Subject, to-OXbv yap TO<br />

TeTVKTaL it is a good thing.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> Plural, OVK^TL (frvKTa tf&oprat <strong>the</strong>re is no more escaping ;<br />

cp. Aoiyia epya ra8' eWerai this will be a pestilent business.<br />

In one or 'two instances <strong>the</strong> Adverbial form in -ws is used in<br />

suck 1 was<br />

phrases <strong>of</strong> this kind : II. n. 762 o>? eW et TTOT eW ye<br />

if I was ; II. 9. 55 r KovpTJreo-ort /caK

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