Citations:Graecity

English citations of Grecity, Græcity, and Graecity

• 1842, James Hamilton (translator), Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck (author), A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (The Biblical Cabinet; or, Hermeneutical, Exegetical, and Philological Library XXXIX), volume II, chapter ix: “The advantages of the Old Constitution cannot be compared with those of the New.”, § 2: ‘Ver. 15—22. — Christ is the Covenant Sacrifice of the New Testament, for, it is necessary that the New Covenant be sealed with blood as well as the Old.’, pages 41–42:

  Ὁ νεκρός, in Greek, like the corresponding term in German, certainly denotes, when used as a substantive, only human dead, corpses of men, see Blomfield, Ad septem c. Th. v. 1015. But, why should we not take it as a neuter, making it denote carcases in general, whether of men or animals? In the later Grecity, τὸ νεκρόν was used in the sense of τὸ πτῶμα (which, in like manner, first occurs in the οἱ ὕστερον), e. g. τὸ νεκρὸν τοῦ Φιλίστου, Plutarch, Vita Dionis, c. 35., τὰ νεκρὰ τ. θυγατέρων, Plutarch, Narr. amat. 3. 73. See Thomas M. ed. Bern. p. 766., Phrynichus, ed. Lobeck. p. 376.

• 1845 January, Orlando Thomas Dobbin (translator), Domenico Diodati (author), “Dominici Diodati I. C. Neapolitani, De Christo Græce Loquente Exercitatio” in The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Third Series: № I (Whole Number: LVII), ed. John Holmes Agnew, article vii, § 8: ‘The region of Judæa and its cities received Greek names.’, 175:

  Our eighth argument is supplied us by the territory and towns of Judæa, both of which from the period of the Maccabees dated the era of their Græcity (suam receperunt Græcitatem).

• 1868 December 30th, Viscount Percy Smythe Strangford (author), Viscountess Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford (editor), «The term ‘Hellene.’» in A Selection from the Writings of Viscount Strangford on Political, Geographical, and Social Subjects, volume I (1869), part iii: “Occasional Notes on Greece and the Greeks”, page 336:

  To determine the exact mutual relations, to assess the exact amount of political solidarity and bonâ fide sympathy, between the Raya Greeks of Turkey and the Hellene Greeks of the kingdom, is, in our opinion, quite the most important component problem of the whole aggregate Eastern Question, which calls for particular treatment as a groundwork of sound political opinion. When treated in current writing, by implication, we see it usually settled off-hand, as a matter of course, by peremptory generalities, usually taking the form of metaphors; but really, in point of fact, nobody ever sees, as a general rule, that there is such a problem, for are not all Greeks one, and at one? Nay, more even; are there not sixteen millions of Greeks in Turkey, all of them destined by their spiritual Grecity to dress by the Greek fugleman as the world goes on?

• 1896 October, Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, “Philonean Literature” (Review) in The Jewish Quarterly Review, Macmillan, volume IX, № 1, 153:

  In his third chapter Dr. Wendland enters on a still more minute examination of the language and idiom of the Vita Contemplativa than I attempted. Several usages which I regarded as ἅπαξ λεγόμενα peculiar to the book, he parallels from Philo. He shows that in its use of ἀτίθασος, θεμέλιος for θεμέλιον, ἀνάπλεων before vowels, σκότους as genitive, and σκότῳ as dative, δυοῖν, ἄλλ᾽ ἄττα, ἕτερα ἄττα, &c., the Vita Contemplativa is true to Philo’s general usage. In such minute points as the use of prepositions it is also characteristically Philonean. It uses ἀνὰ κράτος, not κατὰ κράτος, ἄχρι and ἄνευ after consonants, and μέχρι and δίχα after vowels; ἐπί, μετά, σύν, ἅμα, παρά, ἐν, περί, ἐξ, ἔξω, are all used as Philo alone used them. In these and many similar points the Vita Contemplativa proclaims its Philonean authorship, and they are just those minute indicia of style and Grecity which in the ancient world, when the language was still living, would have escaped the notice of any imitator.

• 1969, Journal of Tamil Studies I, № 1, 57:

  Though traditional Hebrew has only a few rare instances of nouns compounded from two nouns or from particles and nouns, Hebrew by necessity compounded nouns and adjectives on a large scale, and now possesses a series of prefixes to translate such elements as mono-, di-, tri-, sur-, sub-, inter-, etc., partly even simulating the Latinity or Graecity of the European morphemes by using Aramaic elements.

• 1976, Radoslav Katičić, Ancient Languages of the Balkans: Part 1 (Trends in Linguistics: State-of-the-Art Reports 4), The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., →ISBN, chapter 3: “The northern border area”, § 3.3: ‘Epirus’, pages 126–127:

  At present, we cannot say more. Aside from new discoveries, only a deeper analysis of the Greek language on the Epirotic inscriptions and of the names of Epirotic tribesmen may lead to substantial progress in the field; only in such a way can it be shown how much of the native Grecity we can detect in the historical records.

• 1995, Jens Høyrup, As Regards the Humanities… An approach to their theory through history and philosophy (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science preprint XV), 11:

  To judge from surviving texts, however, the overall climate of the Old Babylonian scribe school was as repressive as that seventeenth to nineteenth century Latin school which inculcated “Latinity” or “Graecity” into the sore backs of future priests and officials.

• 1998, Roger Kuin, Chamber Music: Elizabethan Sonnet-Sequences and the Pleasure of Criticism, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, endnote 24 to page 40 in chapter 2 (“Three easy pieces: sonnet analysis”), 247:

  The k in skope is in effect a marker of graecity, and as such conserves the original Greek seme of sight. Skopos’s meanings are: he who sees; the seeing, watching, spying; the thing seen, looked at, looked for, aimed at – hence Lat. scopus, ‘target.’

• 2006, Roberto Salinas Price, Homeric Whispers: Intimations of Orthodoxy in the Iliad and Odyssey, Scylax Press, chapter i: “The Iliad and its Trojan geography”, §: ‘Etymologies’, 46:

  The Iliad and Odyssey are Greek works simply because, regardless of their pre-Greek origins, we have received these directly from a Greek cultural heritage and in the Greek language. However, not withstanding the Graecity of these works, etymologies of geonyms are elusive, if not altogether impossible or misleading, as these are, conventionally, most often derived from a Greek vocabulary.

• ibidem, chapter x: “The Hellenization of Homer”, chapter introduction, 235:

  A revised understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey — the reading of these works in a geographical and cultural context well beyond the periphery of the Hellenic World — necessarily addresses the question about their most likely place of composition, but also raises two other inescapable questions, namely: first, how did these works come into the Hellenic World? and, second, how did these works — dare I say it? — become the very quintessence of Graecity?

• ibidem, Postscript, postscript introduction, pages 259–260:

  Perhaps the prime objection to lifting Homer from his traditional Greek context (that is, to associate the composition of the Iliad and Odyssey beyond the periphery of the Hellenic world) is that, from early on, his Graecity was, to be sure, if not explicitly, at least implicity, unquestioned, for who would have reason to doubt it? and, a quoi bon?

• 2013, Johannes Kramer, “The ancient languages of Greek and Latin” in Dictionaries: An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography • Supplementary Volume: Recent Developments with Focus on Electronic and Computational Lexicography, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, e-‌→ISBN, ISSN 1861‒5090, part VII, chapter xxxviii, § 4.4.2, 629/2:

  Special areas of the Greek lexicon were worked on by specialists; the graecity treated was exactly described: the complete lexicon of Greek, including inscriptions and papyri until and including the sixth century AD, was to be recorded (approximately 1,300 sources of reference), excluding however, Christian Patristic and authors belonging to Byzantinistics; likewise onomastics were excluded.

• ibidem, 630/2:

  When it will be finished, the DGE will be the largest and most reliable dictionary of antique graecity; it will be a kind of substitute for a modern lexicographical Thesaurus linguae Graecae, which will never be carried out because of its material quantity.