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THE ATTRIBUTIVE ARTICLE. 227
And where the Neut. TO is followed by an epexegetic Infinitive :
Od. I.
37 TTi TO ye Ka\bv dKOue/uev eortz; aoibov.
II. 17. 406 7Tt ovbe ro eATrero -Tra/utTraz;,
Kirep(Tiv TiToXitOpov avev 0V.
In all these cases the combination of Article and Noun is not
sufficiently close to constitute an Attributive use but
; they serve
to show how such a use is developed.
be classified as follows :
The Attributive uses in Homer may
1. Uses with connecting Particles, where some contrast is made
in passing to the new sentence or clause.
2. Uses with certain Adjectives that imply contrast.
3. Uses to mark a person or thing as definite.
259.] Article of Contrast with connecting Particles. The
uses that fall under this head, though not very numerous, are
characteristic of Homer. The following are the chief :
(a) The Article with an adversative 8e, aurdp, &c. is not unfrequently
used to bring out the contrast in which the Noun
stands to something already mentioned : e. g.
II. 2. 217 4>o\Kos fr]v, xcoAo? frcpov 7ro'8a, r 6e ot oWe (II. 13. 616), &c.
II. 22. 405 &$ T v l^v KCKoVtro Kaprj aVar, fj
be vv ^Trjp KrX.
lut on the other hand his mother fyc.
II. J.
382 rJKt $' ITT' 'A/>yeuH/xara 0ir], /crA.
(c) The corresponding use with copulative
and illative Particles,
Kat, re, ^8e, /cat yap, is much less common : cp.
'
II. 1.
339 TTpos re Ot&v /xaKapcou Trpos re 6vrjT&v avdp&TttoV
Kat irpbs TOV jSao-tA^os a^rjveos.
1$. 36 ta-ra) vvv roe yata Kat ovpavbs tvpvs virepOev,
Kat ro KaTL(36jJivov 2n;yos v8co/o (cp.
18, 486).