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Page 423 - Circumstantial participles, especially those denoting cause or purpose, are often preceded by шс. This shows that they express the idea or the assertion of the subject of the leading verb or that of some other. person prominent in the sentence, without implying that it is also the idea of the speaker or writer.
Page 2 - Ш NAME. alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta thêta iota kappa lambda mu nu xi omicron pi rhô sigma tau upsilon phi
Page 59 - thirteen years the second edition stood unchallenged as the best elementary Greek Grammar in the English language. Nevertheless it has been possible to improve it. 1. The relative degrees of prominence that should be given to the various aspects of grammar have been carefully considered of late years, and the new edition of Goodwin will
Page 63 - is a new collection and examination of all the words in the Anabasis itself. It contains all words found in any of the principal editions now in use, with every meaning which each word has in the Anabasis, and with full references to the passages in which they occur. Greek-English Word-List. Containing about
Page 380 - or indefinite. It is definite when the relative refers to a definite person or thing, or to some definite time, place, or manner ; it is indefinite when no such definite person, thing, time, place, or manner is referred to. Both definite and indefinite antecedents may be either expressed or understood.
Page 62 - pages. Mailing price, $1.30; for introduction, $1.20. A BOUT seventy easy and well-graded lessons, both Greek and English, introduce the pupil to the first book of Xenophon's Anabasis, from which the Exercises and Vocabularies are mainly selected. The amount of matter to be translated into Greek is
Page 395 - and in indirect questions, retains both its mood and its tense. After a secondary tense, it is either changed to the same tense of the optative or retained in the original mood and tense.
Page 307 - Every sentence must contain two parts, a subject and a predicate. The subject is that of which something is stated. The predicate is that which is stated of the subject. a. The
Page 321 - Any verb whose meaning permits it may take an accusative of kindred signification. This accusative repeats the idea already contained in the verb, and may follow intransitive as well as transitive verbs. It is called the cognate accusative.
Page 409 - tenses, dependent primary tenses of the indicative and all dependent subjunctives may either be changed to the same tense of the optative or retain their original mood and tense. When a subjunctive becomes optative, âv is dropped,