>The references in Smyth #1939 are
>Iliad 2.113 NUN DE KAKHN APATHN BOULEUSATO, KAI ME KELEUEI ...
>
>and
>
>Iliad 3.439 NUN MEN GAR MENELAOS ENIKHSEN SUN AQHNHi.
>
>Smyth does have a nice harvest in this section of aorist verbs, augmented
>and unaugmented, that do not appear to have any clear reference to past
>time.
Thanks for the references! I'm trying to compare them to this example from
Mari's thesis:
John 10:31 RABBI, NUN EZHTOUN SE LIQASAI hOI IOUDAIOI, KAI PALIN hUPAGEIS EKEI;
Mari suggests that NUN in this context can be translated "just now": "Rabbi,
just now the Jews were trying to stone you". She says this indicates that
the past reference of the imperfect can not be cancelled by adding NUN - it
still refers to a past situation.
I had really wanted to see whether the NUN cancels the past reference in the
two Homeric references, but I suspect these examples don't help - in each
case, the aorist feels like an ingressive aorist indicating the start of a
new state, and NUN+ingressive aorist in these two examples has an effect not
unlike the perfect.
Or am I off-base in this interpretation?
Jonathan
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