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A Sexual Encounter, Narrated through Entries in the Index of Herbert Weir Smyth, (Ancient) (1920)

David Rohrbacher
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2 min readFeb 17, 2017

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ΤΟ ΚΙΣΣ After Gustav Klimt, “The Kiss” (1907–8)

Admiring, vbs of, w. gen., 1405.

Desiring, vbs of, w. gen., 1349.

Beseeching, vbs of, w. gen., 1347.

Confirmatory particles, 2774, 2787, 2800, 2803, 2953, 2955.

Anticipation, pres. of, 1879.

Unclothing, vbs. of, w. two accs., 1628.

Labials, before dentals, 82.

Dentals, corresponding w. labials, 131.

Instrument of action, by acc., 1600 a.

Lengthening, in vb.-stem, 374 ɴ ., 474 a, 484, 487, 488, 524, 534, 537 a, 543, 557.

Insertion, of σ, between root (or stem) and suff., 836.

Conjugation, defined, 190.

Compound nouns, copulative, 897 a.

Position, with gen. of divided whole, 1307.

Coördination, and subordination, 2159–2161

Enjoying, vbs. of, w. gen., 1355.

Entreating, vbs. of, w. obj. cl., 2210 a, 2218.

Compounds, rough breathing in, 12.

Urgency, expressed by οὐ w. fut., 1918.

Exclamations, voc. in, 1283, 2682, 2684.

Climax, καὶ δή w., 2847; 3021.

Releasing, vbs. of, w. gen., 1392.

Filling, vbs. of, w. dat., 1508 b.

Liquids, doubled, 81 ᴅ 1, 146 ᴅ

Emotional future conditions, 2328.

Completed action w. permanent result, 1852.

Constructio praegnans, 1659, 3044.

David Rohrbacher is Professor of Classics at New College of Florida, and the author, most recently, of The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta (Wisconsin, 2016).

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