Re: EIS+verb EIS

Mary L B Pendergraft (pender@wfu.edu)
Sat, 08 Nov 1997 07:27:22 -0500

At 05:05 AM 11/8/97 EST, Paul S. Dixon wrote:

>. Since Luke and Hebrews are perhaps closest to Classical
>Greek in style, am wondering if this phenomenon (no repetition of the
>preposition in an EIS+verb construction) is not especially prevalent in
>Classical Greek. Or, another to put it, is the repetition of the
>preposition a later development in the Greek language?
>

No, it's my impression that it's fairly standard in classical prose and
less frequent in poetry.

Mary Pendergraft
Associate Professor of Classical Languages
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC 27109 910-759-5331 pender@wfu.edu