An early Byzantine colloquial use of the adjectιve πιθανόσ

An early Byzantine colloquial use of the adjectιve πιθανόσ

The adjective πιθανός ‘persuasive, credible’, attested for the first time in Aeschylus, and ever since in use in the Greek language has a special meaning ‘beautiful’ in a group of early Byzantine texts. The development of this later meaning can be traced since the comedian Menander and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Akkad Il
Format: Article
Language:Bulgarian
Published: Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 2016-01-01
Series:Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta
Subjects:
early Byzantine Greek
register
colloquialism
Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0584-9888/2016/0584-98881653007A.pdf

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