δύναμαι: Difference between revisions

|txtha=deponent [[verb]], [[present]] indicative 2nd [[person]] [[singular]] [[δύνασαι]] and, according to a rarer [[form]] [[occasional]] in the poets and from [[Polybius]] on to be met [[with]] in [[prose]] writings [[also]] (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 359; (WH s Appendix, p. 168; Winer s Grammar, § 13,2b.; Veitch, [[under]] the [[word]])), [[δύνῃ]] (L T Tr WH; (T WH Tr [[text]]); ἐδυναμην and Attic ἠδυναμην, [[between]] [[which]] forms the manuscripts and editions are [[almost]] [[everywhere]] divided (in ἠδυναμην, so R G in L T Tr WH [[all]] [[read]] ἐδυναμην, so T WH in R G in WH s Appendix, p. 162; Winer's Grammar, § 12,1b.; B, 33 (29)); [[future]] [[δυνήσομαι]]; 1st aorist [[ἠδυνήθην]] and (in T WH, [[after]] manuscripts א B [[only]]; in ἠδυνάσθην (cf. (WH as [[above]] and p. 169); Kühner, § 343, [[under]] the [[word]]; (Veitch, [[under]] the [[word]]; Winer s Grammar, 84 (81); Buttmann, 33 (29); [[Curtius]], Das Verbum, 2:402)); the Sept. for יָכֹל; to be [[able]], [[have]] [[power]], [[whether]] by [[virtue]] of [[one]]'s [[own]] [[ability]] and [[resources]], or of a [[state]] of [[mind]], or [[through]] favorable circumstances, or by permission of [[law]] or [[custom]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> followed by an infinitive (Winer s Grammar, § 44,3) [[present]] or aorist (on the [[distinction]] [[between]] [[which]], cf. Winer's Grammar, § 44,7). α. followed by a [[present]] infinitive: β. followed by an aorist infinitive: R G); T brackets WH [[reject]] the [[passage]]); [[δύναμαι]] τί, to be [[able]] to do [[something]] (cf. German ich vermag etwas): [[Homer]] on).<br /><b class="num">d.</b> [[absolutely]], [[like]] the Latin possum (as in Cues. b. [[gall]]. 1,18, 6), equivalent to to be [[able]], [[capable]], [[strong]], [[powerful]]: Alex., and [[often]] in Greek writings as [[Euripides]], Or. 889; [[Thucydides]] 4,105; [[Xenophon]], an. 4,5, 11 f; Isocrates, [[Demosthenes]], [[Aeschines]])