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accent accusative adjectives adverbs Attic Attic Greek augment clause commonly compounds conj conjunctive dative declension denotes dialects Doric DUAL enclitic Epic Greek Epic poetry Epic poets frequently Future gender genitive Greek Homer imperat imperf Imperfect infinitive Ionic Ionic Greek Latin masc meaning neut neuter nominative occurs optative oxytone paroxytone participle pass Passive penult penultima perf Perfect Pluperfect plural poetry preposition pres Present pronoun prose rarely reduplication Rule Second Aorist sense sing SINGULAR sometimes substantive syllable tenses termination tive usage verbs vowel words αἱ ἂν ἀπὸ ας δὲ εἰ εἶναι εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ Ερ ἐστι ἦν ης καὶ μαι μὴ μοι οἱ ὅτι οὐ οὐκ οὗτος παρὰ τὰ ταῦτα τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τινά τινος τίς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ων ὡς
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Page 122 - The Second Aorist Passive is formed from the Second Aorist Active by changing ov into tˇv ; as, ITUKOV, Irwtrfi.
Page 123 - THE SECOND FUTURE PASSIVE. The Second Future Passive is formed from the Second Aorist...
Page 397 - The Ionic was the softest of the dialects, on account of the frequent meeting of vowels and the deficiency of aspirate letters. It was spoken chiefly in the colonies of Asia Minor, and in the islands of the Archipelago. It was divided into old and new. In the former Homer and Hesiod wrote, and it was originally very little or not at all different from the ancient Attic.
Page 393 - ... the Athenian generals, troubled by their recent defeat and the utter discouragement which prevailed in the army, held a council of war. They saw that their attempts all failed, and that the soldiers were weary of remaining. For they were distressed by sickness, proceeding from two causes: the season of the year was that in which men are most liable to disease; and the place in which they were encamped was damp and unhealthy. And they felt that the situation was in every way hopeless. Demosthenes...
Page 2 - If the word begins with a diphthong, the breathing is placed over the second vowel, and not over the first — oíros not ovros.
Page 208 - ż\ia-KOfiat, which contains the same root, although the quantity of the first syllable differs. Obs. As the second o in this verb is already long, it receives no augment in the old Attic writers, though avrˇ\üxra. appears to have been said in the language of common life. 'AvSatKo, "I please," from РАД- with double nasal, imperf.
Page 5 - ... ARIADINE, CIL. VI, 21398. syllable of asper, which everywhere in poetry has the same length as the first syllable of assis. What the length of the syllable in question would have been if the s had gone in pronunciation with the same expiratory effort as the /, is shown by what is found when, in poetry, a word ends with a vowel and the next word begins with sp. The syllable in question is regularly short. On the other hand, such occasional phenomena as nulla spes, Catull. 64, 186 ( ), stabilita...
Page 114 - FIRST AORIST ACTIVE. 1. The FIRST AORIST ACTIVE is formed from the pure stem, after its vowel has been lengthened, by suffixing the ending -a, and prefixing the augment. 2. In lengthening the stem-vowel for the purpose of forming this tense, the vowel...
Page 240 - ... the second or third, and the second in preference to the third, as : ?pr ?fa $T ^f ^T, 'You and we will go there...
Page 295 - The notion of aspect is fundamental to Greek. It rests on a lively contrast between the present and imperfect, on the one hand, and the aorist, on the other. The contrast is plain in two examples given by J. Humbert22. In the sentence 'Socrates died nobly