Attribute/Predicate questions

[ἑκηβόλος]

Edit: The post belonged in another thread and was not a question.

[ἑκηβόλος]

predicate position:

σοφὸς ὁ ἀνήρ ... "the man is wise"

What is happening with the word order here?

φίλημα ἐφίλησε μελιτῶδες ἁπαλοῖς τοῖς χείλεσι

[jeidsath]

What is happening with the word order here?

φίλημα ἐφίλησε μελιτῶδες ἁπαλοῖς τοῖς χείλεσι

I don't know the gender of the subject, but assuming female:

She kissed a honeyed kiss with her lips that were soft.

Or

She kissed a kiss that was honeyed with her lips that were soft.

[jeidsath]

Although now that I look at the LSJ: "show outward signs of love, esp. kiss (not in Hom.), φ. τοῖσι στόμασι kiss on the mouth"

So I might be wrong about the instrumental dative, in which case: "on the lips that were soft."

[ἑκηβόλος]

Female.

In 2.14, he had been struck (repeatedly).

τὸν Δάφνιν ἔπαιον

and then in 2.18 Chloe washed off his bloodied nose at the spring, fed him and surprisingly kissed him.

[mwh]

Not so very surprisingly?

[ἑκηβόλος]

"Most surprisingly", if the adverb of intensity is not omitted in summary.

[jeidsath]

τὸ δὲ μάλιστα ἀνακτησάμενον αὐτόν, φίλημα ἐφίλησε μελιτῶδες ἁπαλοῖς τοῖς χείλεσι.

I don't think that's what μάλιστα ἀνακτησάμενον αὐτόν means.

[ἑκηβόλος]

That was an "autobiographical slip in reading", (if such a species of animal has been catalogued???)... Much to the consternation of those who love or befriend me, I freak out from "surprise" or unexpected touching, and especially kissing - I read it as ἀγανακτέω, picturing that she snuck a gentle kiss while tending to his wounds.