Aspect in Ancient Greek - Nijmegen Centre for Semantics

136 Chapter 6. The temporal structure of discourse(162) Περίανδρο̋Periandrosδde νēnΚυψέλουKupselouπα̋paisPeriander.nom prt be.pst.IPFV.3sg Cypselus.gen son.nom τ υ ρ ά ν ν ε υ εeturanneueδdehoreign.pst.IPFV.3sg prt the.nomΠερίανδρο̋PeriandrosPeriander.nomΚορίνθουKorinthouCorinth.gen......“Periander was the son of Cypselus. He reigned over Corinth.”Hdt. 1.23An overlap interpretation is also often found if only one of the two sentenceshas imperfective aspect, the other aoristic, as in (163) (which is part of a longindirect discourse, hence the infinitival forms):(163) . . .... λ θ ε νeltheincome.inf.AORπepitoτνtēnthe.accθάλασσανthalassansea.accγυνακα̋gunaikaswomen.accλλα̋allasother.accτε πολλ̋ κα δ κα το βασιλέο̋ θυγατέραte pollas kai dē kai tou basileos thugateraprt many.acc prt prt prt the.gen king.gen daughter.accτtothe.accδέdeprtοhoishe.datονοµαounomaname.accε ν α ι,einai,be.IPFV.inf. . . ,...ΙονIounIo.accτνtēnthe.accΙνάχου.Inachou.Inachus.gen“... many women came to the shore and among them especially thedaughter of the king; her name was, ..., Io, the daughter of Inachus.”Hdt. 1.1.3A second temporal relation that we often find with the sequence aoristimperfectiveis that the second eventuality follows right after the the first, asin (164):(164) κα µαkai hamaand at.the.same.timeοονhoionsuch.as.accτtōithe.dat φ θ έ γ ξ α ν τ οephthegxantoutter.a.sound.pst.AOR.3plΕνυαλίωEnualiōiEnyalius.datπάντε̋pantesall.nomλελίζουσι,elelidzousi,raise.cry.prs.imp.3plκαkaiprtπάντε̋pantesδde θ ε ο ν.etheon.all.nom prt run.pst.IMP.3pl“At the same time they all set up the sort of war-cry which they raise