Re: greek word order

Quoting Heather Rice <florarroz@...>:

> I have been curious about something for a very long
> time.  What is the word order for ancient greek?
>
> Subject-verb-object?
>
> Verb-subject-object?
There's no set word-order, since case endings tell
you who's doing what to whom by which along with
whom... but there is a marked tendency for nonemphatic
declarative sentences to take an SOV order.  Ray (our
resident classicist) could probably tell you more
precisely/correctly.

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Thomas Wier <trwier@...>

"Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi
  entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn;
autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê
  erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos