Tuesday, January 17, 2023

 

The Greek Participle

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, "Brief Mention," American Journal of Philology 20.3 (1899) 350-354 (at 352):
To translate the Greek participle by a subordinate sentence, temporal, causal, conditional, is a makeshift. To translate it by an abstract noun is a makeshift. Neither of these devices reproduces the true effect of the participle, which belongs to its substantive like a skin—not a human skin, but, let us say, a dog's skin.



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