ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”
Review and Addenda
Review Aorist and Future Passives
- In English we form past and future passives by using helping verbs, e.g. ‘you were taken’ and ‘you will be taken’ respectively
- See Appendix on p. 351 (3rd edition)
- This is how we will translate the Aorist and Future passives
- Both are built on the 6th Principal Part (aka Tense Form)
- e.g. λύω, λύσω, ἔλυσα, -, -, ἐλύθην
- We will learn the 4th and 5th Principal Parts (Perfect Active, Perfect Middle/Passive) next chapter
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Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Ἀέριος and last updated on Apr 18, 2012
ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”
Review and Addenda
Review First Aorist
- 1st Aorist is the regular form
- Most Greek verbs follow this pattern
- The 2nd Aorist alters the Tense Stem from the Present (usually to Verbal Root)
- The 1st Aorist does not alter the Present Tense Stem, but instead uses the Tense Formative σα
- 1st Aorist Tense Stem is usually identical to Present Tense Stem
- There is no difference in meaning between the 1st and 2nd Aorist — Simple Past
- Aspect of the Aorist is Undefined
- All Aorists have the Augment ε, and therefore all use Secondary Endings
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Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Ἀέριος and last updated on Apr 11, 2012
ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”
Review and Addenda
Review The Second Aorist
- Definition of Aorist (ἀορίστος) : Undefined aspect usually in past time
- The Aorist is not punctiliar by nature (22.19)
- Etymology of “Aorist”
- Alpha privative (negation) examples (atheist, agnostic, amoral, etc.)
- verb ὁρίζω – determine, appoint, fix, set limits to, define
- α + ὁριστος = undefined
- Translate as English simple past tense, e.g. “I ate” “I ran”
- Indefinite – states only the fact that the action occurred, and nothing else
- Compare with Imperfect which says something very definite about the action, viz. that its aspect is continuous
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Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Ἀέριος and last updated on Mar 28, 2012
ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”
Review and Addenda
Review Imperfect Indictative
- Imperfect Tense: Aspect = Continuous, Time = Past
- As you would expect, there are 3 different Greek tenses which express action in past time, one for each aspect: Imperfect (Continuous), Aorist (Simple), and Pluperfect (Completed) [rarely used]
- Aspect is usually the most important element of the Greek verb. The Future Tense is the exception to this rule.
- The Imperfect tense occurs only in the Indicative Mood
- Formed with: Augment (ε) + Present Tense Stem + Connecting Vowel + Secondary endings
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Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Ἀέριος and last updated on Mar 21, 2012
This question has been raised:
“On #8 in parsing on the worksheet for chapter ten, the “τινες” has no accent.
We can’t figure out how we ought to parse it, since both of the identical words in the book have accents [one on the penult, one on the ultima.]"
The confusion has to do with the nature of enclitics, as they relate to the rules of accent.
The indefinite pronoun, (τις, τι) is enclitic (throws its accent back), like most forms of εἰμι (BBG 8.12).
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Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Ἀέριος and last updated on Dec 13, 2011
An excerpt from: “To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany That They Establish and Maintain Christian Schools” (1524) by Dr. Martin Luther
“All right,” you say again, "suppose we do have schools; what is the use of teaching Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and the other liberal arts?
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Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Ἀέριος and last updated on Dec 13, 2011
