Re: Chaismus: Greek, Latin, Hebrew

Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:05:16 -0500

At 01:27 PM 11/19/97 +0000, you wrote:
>I have been studying a 5th cent. (?) Latin creed, Quicunque (Athanasian
>Creed) and have noted examples of *chaisumus, patterns of an: A B ... B
>A, structure. This pattern appears in Paul' s writings and in the Hebrew
>OT. What about Latin?

Yes, it also occurs in the latin writers of the first c. ce and bce.

> Was this structure used widely in ancient Latin?

I'm not sure what you mean by ancient.

>If so, was it just a literary device that was floating around in the
>ancient Mediterranean and used by everyone?
>

Yep, pretty much that was exactly the case.

>Clay Bartholomew
>Three Tree Point

Jim

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