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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:48:03 +0100
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From: James Butrica <jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: "middle" voice

Does anyone know when the term "middle" was first used to describe what we
normally call the middle voice in Greek? Specifically, has the term been
introduced since the Renaissance, or did the ancient Greeks themselves use
it?
I ask because I have a passage in which Erasmus describes "dogmatizesthe"
as either active or passive, and I would like to think that he is using
active to mean a middle with active sense.

James Lawrence Peter Butrica
Department of Classics
Memorial University
St. John's, Newfoundland  A1C 5S7
(709) 737-7914


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