Sunday, April 19, 2015
KAITOI
K.J. Dover (1920-2010), Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968), p. 58:
For more on καίτοι see J.D. Denniston, The Greek Particles, 2nd ed. rev. K.J. Dover (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954), pp. 555-564.
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And what about καίτοι? It is a particle of which the semantics are, as we would expect, discussed by Denniston; but the step in reasoning, valid or invalid, which is taken by καίτοι, the charge of indignation or scorn which it carries, its manipulation of the juryman's mind, all belong, as clearly as anything can, within the sphere of forensic technique. I would have little regard for the conclusions of a dissertation on the relation between oratory and the law unless I had reason to think that the writer had checked and pondered on every instance of the word καί in the orators.If I were a betting man, I'd bet that Dover really wrote, or meant to write, "every instance of the word καίτοι in the orators."
For more on καίτοι see J.D. Denniston, The Greek Particles, 2nd ed. rev. K.J. Dover (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954), pp. 555-564.
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