<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (May 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (May 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> When properly transliterated with diacritics, the spelling becomes molṑn labé . The modern Greek pronunciation is somewhat different from the ancient Greek: Ancient Greek: (molɔːn labé); Modern Greek: (moˈlon laˈve). The literal translation is "having come, take". While English normally requires an explicit object in a transitive imperative construction ("Take them!" or "Take it!"), Ancient Greek does not; the object them is understood from context . </P> <P> The first word, μολών molōn, is the aorist active participle (masculine, nominative, singular) of the Greek verb βλώσκω blōskō "to come", meaning "having come". The root is evidently ΜΟΛ, so that βλώ - σκ - ω is apparently a contraction for μ (ο) λώ - σκ - ω, where the cluster * μλ - regularly becomes βλ - . Where English would put two main verbs in two independent clauses joined by a conjunction: "come and take", a strategy sometimes called paratactic, Ancient Greek, which is far richer in participles, subordinates one to the other, a strategy called hypotactic: "having come", take ". The first action is expressed with a participle with adverbial force . In this structure, the participle gives some circumstance (the coming) attendant on the main verb (the taking). </P>

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