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240 PRONOUNS. [268.
This ' Inverse Attraction } may be placed with the forms in
which the Antecedent is
wanting, because it can only arise when
the original construction of the Antecedent (e'A.Kcoju,ey vrjas ocrai )
has been forgotten.
5. Again, the Correlative structure is liable to an extension,
the characteristic of which is that the Relatival Adverb has no
proper construction in its own clause.
This may be most clearly seen in the use of out/eKo, (i.
VKa)for which reason : e.g.
II. I. no a>? $rj
TOV& eW/ca a(j)LV /ci]/3o'A.o? aAyea rev;(et,
OVVZK eya>
. . OVK efleAov KrA.
e. ov
Apollo causes sorrow for this reason, that I would not Here
fyc.
we cannot translate OVVCKOL for which reason : the reason does not
precede, but is given by the Relative Clause. That is, the first
VK.a is rational ;
the second is logically unmeaning. Hence the
ovvKa can only be due to the correlation : as it is usually expressed,
ovveKa is attracted to the antecedent rowe/ca. Then
since ovvKa comes to imply a correlative rowe/co, the antecedent
rovvKa is omitted, and the relatival ovvtKa by
itself comes to
meanjfor the reason that, because.
The process may be traced more or less distinctly in all the
Relatival Adverbs. Thus ws (in which manner] comes to mean in
such manner that : and so ctypa for so long that, Iva. (lit. where) to
the end that. Also, as will be shown presently, o,
on and o re are
Adverbial Accusatives, meaning literally in which respect, hence
in respect that, because :
cp. eiTretz; o TL e^craro to say for what he
was angered with ^wcraro on he was angered- for (the reason}
that. The qualifying force of the Adverb is transferred from its
own clause to the Verb of the Governing Clause.
On the same principle e* TOV ore from
the time when becomes
e ou (for
K TOV ov
: and ets TO ore becomes els o to the time
that.
)
268.] OUMCKO. This Conjunction (which may
be treated as a
single word) is used in two ways :
(a) to assign a cause or reason :
(I)
to connect the fact expressed in the Relative Clause with
a Verb of saying, knowing, &c.
The second of these uses is evidently derived from the first by a
kind of degeneration, or loss of meaning. The fact told or
known is originally given as the ground of the saying or knowing.
The transition may be seen in
Od. 7- 2/99 ^'j ^ TOL [JLV TOVTO y Vai(TlfJLOV OVK VOrj(T
tf,
ovvKa or' ov TI /xer' aju