tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post5108400326160195733..comments2024-03-28T14:19:53.973+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: ApollosFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-20107892064612216182020-05-27T01:06:42.275+01:002020-05-27T01:06:42.275+01:00I asked this question over at Latin Stack Exchange...I asked this question over at Latin Stack Exchange and got a very wise answer from someone called TKR:<br /><br />https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/13559/why-is-the-proper-name-apollos-not-declined-in-the-vulgate<br /><br />Which I will now copy:<br /><br />Looking at the Greek NT, it turns out the name in Greek is Ἀπολλῶς. This belongs to an odd subclass of Greek nouns called the Attic Figulushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13549064050271896212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-18210267578099629482011-01-26T12:42:05.387+00:002011-01-26T12:42:05.387+00:00Alberte,
That's the point: I think we can ass...Alberte,<br /><br />That's the point: I think we can assume from the genitive in the Vulgate trans. of St Paul that the declension is NOT that of the god, Apollo, Apollinis. Rather, the genitive, Apollo, is modelled on the -ω ending of the Greek genitive. From this we can guess that the nominative would likewise be Apollos in Latin.<br /><br />However, this would lead to a strange looking Sethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06659471135874470035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-19181901752255595252011-01-25T18:34:13.777+00:002011-01-25T18:34:13.777+00:00I always thought that ''Ego autem Apollo&#...I always thought that ''Ego autem Apollo'' was a grammatical error in the text! It seemed to me that the genitive of Apollo should be Apollinis. I don't find it at all strange that the Latin has Apollo for the nominative. For in Latn the god's name is just that: Apollo. What then was the genitive of Apollo in classical Latin? i Classical Greek. In Attic, Ionic, and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-45546122930921056412011-01-25T12:31:43.361+00:002011-01-25T12:31:43.361+00:00fieldofdreams2010 is correct.
Fr DeViese,remember...fieldofdreams2010 is correct.<br /><br />Fr DeViese,remember that the Greek god is usually written 'Apollon' (gen. Apollonos).<br /><br />I too wondered over the form 'Apollo' in the Latin of the antiphon this morning - but then I realised it must have originated as a transcription of the Greek genitive (quite common); the nominative form may have slipped in by false analogy with Sethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06659471135874470035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-8823100105555331612011-01-25T11:00:58.234+00:002011-01-25T11:00:58.234+00:00So the answer to Father's original query is pr...So the answer to Father's original query is probably the same as that of Dr Johnson re "pastern"- "Sheer ignorance."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-25070851940134186532011-01-25T10:58:36.098+00:002011-01-25T10:58:36.098+00:001 Corinthians 3;
v 4: Apollo (sorry no Greek font-...1 Corinthians 3;<br />v 4: Apollo (sorry no Greek font- final omega) is clearly genitive, like Paulou. <br />In the nominitive (vv5,6) we have "ti oun estin Apollos" and "Apollos epotisen",<br />so Fr Hunwicke was quite right in nagging student to remember it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-58970101707030914812011-01-25T10:20:57.611+00:002011-01-25T10:20:57.611+00:00My Office texts are different for today, but as fa...My Office texts are different for today, but as far as I can tell the correct form is indeed Apollo. According to the Greek text, in the first chapter of the First Letter to the Corinthians, Paul writes "Ego autem Apollo" or "Ego de Apollo" in Greek (vs. 12) (sorry for the lack of Hellenic font), without the use of a sigma...Apollo ends merely in an omega. <br /><br />I Pastor Montanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032796365729658542noreply@blogger.com