An Elementary Greek Grammar

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Ginn, 1879 - Greek language - 393 pages
 

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Page 17 - The syllable next to the last is called, the penult (pen-ultima, almost last) ; the one before the penult is called the antepenult. 2. A pure syllable is one whose vowel or diphthong immediately follows another vowel or diphthong ; as the last syllable of </>tAetu, ol/cia, QUANTITY OF SYLLABLES.
Page 382 - Large Porson type, and clear diacritical marks emphasize distinctions and minimize the strain upon the student's eyes. As the names of the editors are a sufficient guaranty of their work, and as the volumes thus far issued have been received with uniform favor, the Publishers have thought it unnecessary to publish recommendations. Texts are supplied free to professors for classes using the text and note editions.
Page 382 - SEYMOUR. rpIUS series will include the works either entire or selected of all the Greek authors suitable to be read in American colleges. The volumes contain uniformly an Introduction, Text, Notes, Rhythmical Schemes where necessary, an Appendix including a brief bibliography and critical notes, and a full Index. In accordance with the prevailing desire of teachers, the notes are placed below the text, but to accommodate all, and...
Page 203 - A Relative agrees with its Antecedent in GENDER and NUMBER ; but its CASE depends on the construction of the clause in which it stands : as, — puer qui venit abiit, the boy who came has gone away.
Page 379 - Anabasis. The exercises on the Moods are sufficient, it is believed, to develop the general principles as stated in the Grammar. Goodwin & White's First Four Books of the Anabasis. Goodwin's Greek Reader contains the first and second books of the Anabasis. Also, selections from Plato, Herodotus, and Thucydides; being the full amount of Greek Prose required for admission at Harvard University. Goodwin's Selections from...
Page 188 - Latin grammars) that when two subjects are of different persons, the verb is in "the first person rather than the second, and in the second rather than the third" (si tu et Tullia valetis, ego et Cicero valemus, Allen and Greenough, Lat.
Page 379 - First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis. With an illustrated Vocabulary. Edited by Professors WW GOODWIN and JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE of Harvard University.
Page 5 - X * со alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta thêta iota kappa lambda mu nu xi omicron Pi rhô sigma tau upsilon phi chi psi oméga...
Page 18 - We still, however, see the visible marks on the page, and we know that the acute accent ( ' ) can stand only on one of the last three syllables of a word ; the circumflex ( " ) on one of the last two ; the grave ( % ) only on the last.
Page ix - ... great principles of Greek Grammar. The Syntax has been allowed more space, proportionally, than the statement of the forms : this has been done from a conviction of the author that the chief principles of Syntax are a more profitable study for a pupil in the earlier years of his classical course than the details of vowel-changes and exceptional forms, which are often thought to be more seasonable.

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