Thursday, February 24, 2011
Verbs of Perception With Nominative Participle: Thucydides 2.4.1
Ever since Dr. Horace Jeffery Hodges brought a certain Greek participial construction to my notice, I've been looking for more examples in the course of my reading. Guy L. Cooper, III (after K.W. Krüger), Attic Greek Prose Syntax, Vol. I (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 825-826, has a long list of examples, but his list doesn't include Thucydides 2.4.1:
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...they perceived that they had been utterly deceived...
...ἔγνωσαν ἐξηπατημένοι...