Peter Kirby

εχεις βλεπειν αυτον;

I made the line above using a Symbol font to HTML 4.x converter found here:

http://www.snible.org/greek/symb2uni.html

best,
Peter Kirby

Haran

Thanks Toto and Peter! I think it's great to be able to display the actual languages!

Oh, and if I "have to see it", Peter, I did. - δυναμαι ? can/able -

Peter Kirby

"εχω - ... (+ infin.) be able (to), can; fare." (Anne H. Groton, From Alpha to Omega, p. 392)

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Peter Kirby

Haran

Interesting. I had to dig into Wallace's Grammar to find this in an obscure footnote. I have not seen this used before. Does Groton happen to say whether this is more common in Classical as opposed to Koine?

I have usually seen expressions similar to yours expressed with δυναμαι , but it appears you are indeed correct.

Peter Kirby

Anne Groton was the textbook that we used when I studied Greek at UC Irvine. Groton presents classical Greek and does not discuss anything related to Koine at all. It is possible that the word's meaning or common usage shifted in later times. But I learned it in lesson 6 as meaning "can" with the infinitive, long before δυναμαι in lesson 47.

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Peter Kirby