...they perceived that they had been utterly deceived...
...ἔγνωσαν ἐξηπατημένοι...
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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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: