I would think Yes; although this may not be relevant, it strikes me that it
is also consistent with the regular use of the neuter article to create new
adverbial expressions, a tendency not absent from earlier Greek but seeming
to proliferate in Koine (it seems to me that Aristotle's guilty of coining
such adverbial expressions to a very great extent, but he may simply be
venting an already growing tendency). I'm thinking of such expressions as
TO KAQ' hOLOU (= TO KAQOLOU), TO KATA MEROS; TO NUN one already finds in
classical Attic.
Carl W. Conrad
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