Wednesday, August 03, 2016
Borrowing and Belfast Greek
M.L. West, review of Victor J. Matthews, Panyassis of Halikarnassos: Text and Commentary (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974), in Classical Philology 71.2 (April, 1976) 172-174 (at 174):
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Fragment 26: the word πέμματα already occurs in Solon frag. 38.3. There is no reason why Panyassis, any more than Herodotus, should have "borrowed" the word from Stesichoros. I can use the word "handbag" without having borrowed it from Oscar Wilde.Id.:
Fragment 28: Matthews suggests πῶς δὲ πορευθῇς, "how are you to cross?": Belfast Greek.Cruel. Matthews studied under George Huxley at Queen's University Belfast.
