Re: Looking at the Cratylus; was: nomothete

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:40:02 -0500, Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> Socrates: Nomothetus de soi dokei pas einai aner e o ten techne echon?
> "Do you think every man is a lawgiver, or only he who has the skill?"
> (I don't know how this sentence is structured, except that Nomothetus is
> nominative. What is dokei?)
My 0.5 cents:

"dokei" = "to seem", I think... "dokei soi" = "it seems to you
that...; you think (opine, consider, hold) that ..." (soi, of course,
being the dative of the 2sg personal pronoun.)

So you have the verb "einai" (to be) with the two complements "pas
aner" (every man) and "nomothetês" (lawgiver).

The second bit being "ê" = "or" followed by "ho tên technê echôn" =
"the the skill having" = "the one having the skill".

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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