A Greek reader, for the use of schools: containing selections in prose and poetry, with English notes and a lexicon |
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Page 273 - The spectators hastened to the theatre at the dawn of day to secure the best places, as the performances commenced very early. After the first exhibition was over, the audience retired for a while until the second was about to commence. There were three or four such representations in the course of the day, thus separated by short intervals.
Page iii - ... PREFACE. THE following pages have been compiled on a plan somewhat different from those of the Greek elementary books now used. The Editor has aimed to select such passages from the Greek classic writers, as should be at once easy, elegant, and interesting. He has endeavoured to make his selections such, that each should have a certain completeness and interest by itself; the method of putting together a great number of small scraps from thirty or forty authors of every degree of merit, not being,...
Page 228 - ¿nia flavor], whoever would give information of the person, -who had let loose the ass among the arms. '' This is a mere joke, implying that there was no ground for alarm.