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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
6.2 Temporal patterns 137to Enyalius, and next all were running.” X. An. 1.8.18This is labelled the immediative use of imperfective aspect by Rijksbaron(2002:17).Notwithstanding these common patterns, in practice, any aspect combinationoccurs with almost any temporal relation, as a small corpus study of thefirst 85 sections of Herodotus’ Histories book 1 reveals (see Bary 2007). It is,for example, possible to go back in time with the aorist, even when no timeadverbial is present, as (165) illustrates:(165) διαφέρουσιdiapherousiprevail.ipfv.ptcp.datπλεµον τ κτωpolemon tōi hektōiwar.acc the.datδέ σφιde sphiprtπ ση̋epi isēsthey.dat prep equal.genτεϊ συµβολ̋eteï sumbolēssixth.dat year.dat encounter.genγενοµένη̋συνήνεικεgenomenēs sunēneiketake.place.aor.ptcp.gen happen.pst.AOR.3sgµάχη̋machēsσυνεστεώση̋,sunesteōsēs,τνtēnbattle.gen be.joined.prf.ptcp.gen the.accνκτα γενέσθαι.nukta genesthai.night.acc be.aor.infµέρη̋ Θαλ̋hēmerēs Thalēsday.gen Thales.nomΤνTēnthe.acchothe.nomδdeprtπ ρ ο η γ ρ ε υ σ ε σεσθαι,proēgoreuse esesthai,foretell.pst.AOR.3sg be.fut.infνιαυτν τοτονeniauton toutonyear.acc that.accνeninτtōirel.datµεταλλαγνmetallagēnchange.accΜιλήσιο̋MilēsiosMilesian.nomδdēprtορονouronbound.accκαkaiprtστε,hōste,thatµέρηνhēmerēnday.accτατηνtautēnthat.accτοσιtoisithe.datτνtonthe.accτ̋tēsthe.genξαπίνη̋exapinēssuddenlyτ̋tēsthe.genΙωσιIōsiIonians.datπροθέµενο̋prothemenosfix.aor.ptcp.nomγένετοegenetobe.pst.aor.3sghēthe.nomµεταβολή.metabolēchange.nom“They were still warring with equal success, when it happened, atan encounter which occurred in the sixth year, that during the battlethe day was suddenly turned to night. Thales of Miletus had foretoldthis loss of daylight to the Ionians, fixing it within the year in which
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Aspect in Ancient GreekA semantic a
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