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Page 177 - is generally assimilated to the case of its antecedent, if this is a genitive or dative. The antecedent is often attracted into the relative clause and agrees with the relative in case.
Page 293 - In an indirect quotation or question, the original words conform to the construction of the sentence in which they are quoted ; as, He said that
Page 5 - The acute can stand only on one of the last three syllables of a word ; the circumflex only on one of
Page 269 - When the protasis simply states a present or past particular supposition, implying nothing as to the fulfilment of the condition, it has the indicative with
Page 11 - There are three numbers ; the singular, dual, and plural. The singular denotes one object, the plural more than one ; the dual
Page 41 - when the next word begins with a vowel. This is called v movable. It may also be added at the end of a sentence
Page 296 - may be either changed to the same tense of the optative or retained in the original mood and tense
Page 219 - Attic Reduplication. Some verbs beginning with a, e, o, followed by a single consonant, reduplicate the perfect and pluperfect by prefixing their first two letters
Page 271 - When the protasis states a present or past supposition implying that the condition is not or was not fulfilled,
Page 176 - When an enclitic forms the last part of a compound word, the compound is accented as if the enclitic were a separate word