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Subject: [Leica] How do you spell Emblepo in Greek?
From: john.nebel at csdco.com (John Nebel)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:36:40 -0700
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Sonny,

http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/ - search for 2383 - ????????? is not 
legible, however, one can see that accents were not used by the scribe.

I recalled Luke 22:61 sung in Sch?tz Lucas-Passion when you first used 
????????? 
on your web site, it's an intense passage.

John

On 12/15/10 6:44 AM, Sonny Carter wrote:
> Thanks to you guys.  I think I finally may have satisfied myself and also
> the pickers of nits in Greek that pop up from time to time.  (I never would
> have thought it)
>
> I made a minor change in the header that makes sense to me.
>
> http://sonc.com/look/
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Daniel Ridings<daniel at dlridings.se>  
> wrote:
>
>> I've looked. I can judge this. I have a PhD in Greek.
>>
>> Sonny's site is perfectly correct.
>>
>> The only thing missing are the accents and the breathing marks, but
>> the ancient greeks didn't write them either, so it's no big deal. (We
>> know, not because we have original manuscripts to show it, but because
>> we have ancient inscriptions, that is, the original writing in stone).
>>
>> Sonny uses the inflected for as a title for the site and uses the
>> dictionary form (first person singular in the present) to define it.
>>
>> By the way, Peter, you transcribed Sonny's site incorrectly. He
>> doesn't write "enablepsen", but "eneblepsen", the correct form.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Peter Cheyne
>> <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
>>> Hi Sonny,
>>>
>>> your website spells it as 'enablepsen'.  'Emblepo' should be ???????.
>>>   Literally, it means "I look at".
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Peter Cheyne
>>>
>>>
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Replies: Reply from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] How do you spell Emblepo in Greek?)
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