Interrogative

§346ADVERBSCorrelative Adverbs.—Adverbs from pronominal stems often correspond in form and meaning. In the list on p. 102 poetic or rare words are in (). a. The demonstratives in () are forei…

§§2650–2655QUESTIONS INTRODUCED BY INTERROGATIVE PARTICLESἦ and ἆρα introduce questions asking merely for information and imply nothing as to the answer expected (neither yes nor no). ἦ τέθνηκεν Οἰδίπου πατήρ; is Oedipus' father really de…

§§2663–2674INDIRECT (DEPENDENT) QUESTIONSIndirect questions are introduced by interrogative pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs, indefinite relative pronouns and adverbs (340, 346), or by certain interrogative particles (26…

§2866ἦInterrogative ἦ (2650) is probably the same as asseverative ἦ.

§2951οὐκοῦν, οὔκουνοὐκοῦν interrogative: not therefore? not then? (nonne, igitur? nonne ergo?). Here the stress lies on the inferential οὖν and an affirmative answer is expected as a matter of course…

§334PRONOUNSInterrogative and Indefinite Pronouns.—The interrogative pronoun τίς, τί who, which, what? never changes its accent to the grave (154). The indefinite pronoun τὶς, τὶ any one, some…

§339 fPRONOUNSThe indefinite or general relative pronoun ὅστις, ἥτις, ὅ τι whoever (any-who, any-which), any one who, whatever, anything which, inflects each part (ὅς and τὶς) separately. For th…

§340PRONOUNSCorrelative Pronouns.—Many pronominal adjectives correspond to each other in form and meaning. In the following list poetic or rare forms are placed in (). Interrogative: Relative …

§1186INTERROGATIVES, ἄλλος, πολύς, ὀλίγος WITH THE ARTICLEThe interrogatives τίς, ποῖος may take the article when a question is asked about an object before mentioned: ΣΩ. νῦν δ<*> ἐκε <*>να, ὦ Φαῖδρε, δυνάμεθα κρῑ́νειν. ΦΑΙ. τὰ ποῖα; SOC…

§1187INTERROGATIVES, ἄλλος, πολύς, ὀλίγος WITH THE ARTICLESo even with a personal pronoun: A. δεῦρο δὴ εὐθὺ ἡμῶν . . . B. ποῖ λέγεις καὶ παρὰ τίνας τοὺς ῡ̔μᾶς; A. Come hither straight to us. B. Whither do you mean and who are you that I a…

§1262THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNSThe interrogative pronouns are used substantively τίς; who? or adjectively τίς ἀνήρ; what man?

§1263THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNSThe interrogatives (pronouns and adverbs, 340, 346) are used in direct and in indirect questions. In indirect questions the indefinite relatives ὅστις, etc., are generally used ins…

§1264THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNSτί is used for τίνα as the predicate of a neuter plural subject when the general result is sought and the subject is considered as a unit: ταῦτα δὲ τί ἐστιν; but these things, what…

§1265THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNSτίς asks a question concerning the class, τί concerning the nature of a thing: εἰπὲ τίς ἡ τέχνη say of what sort the art is P. G. 449a, τί σωφροσύνη, τί πολῑτικός; what is temperan…