From: Mark Goodacre (M.S.GOODACRE@bham.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 23 1999 - 05:49:24 EDT
On 22 Jun 99, at 17:16, UpoXarin@aol.com wrote:
> I don't understand why hOSON XRONON is in the accusative. It appears to
> be functioning adverbially, answering the question of how long. A.T.
> Robertson suggests that there is some sort of attraction going on. Any
> help would be appreciated.
I would say that it is because we have here the accusative used of duration of
time (= time how long), i.e. it means something like "for how long a time".
Mark
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