Ruby's Greek Thread

[Stephen Carlson]

If in our manuscript at least part of the text is written in ancient Greek, as I expect, we should be able to distinguish the present participle from the declined noun.
For example, is the word You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., which I believe transcribes the word πολων, the participle of the verb πολεω or the declined noun πολος?

If you have some knowledge of ancient Greek, what do you think?

In this case, the noun and participle have different accents: πόλων (genitive plural of the noun πόλος) vs. πολῶν (pres. act. part. of πολέω).

Doesn't always happen (especially with feminine nouns), however, but usually the syntactic context will tell them apart, e.g, they'll take different articles: τῶν πόλων vs. ὁ πολῶν.

PS. I'd love it if it were ancient Greek, but there's nothing resembling Greek syntax in it, like Wackernagel particles, etc.