The Elements of Greek Grammar: With Notes, for the Use of Those, who Have Made Some Progress in the LanguageD.N. Shury, 1807 - 206 pages |
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2d Aorist Accent Accusative Adjectives Æolic Anapest ancient Aristoph aspirate Attic Augment changes circumflexed Conjugation Consonant contracted Dative Declension Dialect Digamma diphthong Dissyllables Doric dropt Dual Enclitic Eurip followed formed frequently Genitive Greek Hence Homer IMPERATIVE MOOD INDICATIVE MOOD Ionic Ionic Dialect Isoc language last syllable Latin lengthened letters Metre Middle Neuter Nominative Nouns OPTATIVE MOOD Oxytons Participle Passive penultima Perfect Person Plural Pluperfect Plur Poets prefixed Preposition Present and Imperfect pronounced Reduplication Second Aorist Second Future short signifies Sing Singular sometimes Soph struck SUBJUNCTIVE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD syncopated Tenses termination Verbs Virg Vocative vowel words αι ἀπὸ ας εἰς εἰσί εν ἔτυπον ημεν ης ήτην καὶ μαι μεθα μεθον ντο οίμην εσθαι όμενος ον περὶ πρὸς σθε σθον σο τατος τὴν τοῖς τοὺς τῶν ὑπὸ ων ὡς
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Page 155 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 7 - The Dual has only two terminations, one for the Nominative, Accusative, and Vocative ; the other for the Genitive and Dative. Neuters have the Nominative, Accusative, and Vocative alike ; and in the plural those cases end in a. In the Dual they are the same as the masculine.
Page 198 - S ; but these could be only partially adopted, and were far from displaying the Poet in all the charms of his original style. Numberless passages remained in their naked deformity, and exercised the conjectural sagacity of Grammarians and Commentators.
Page 197 - To that principle may in a great measure, b« attributed the frequent use of the Digamma by Homer. The use of the Digamma having been insensibly abolished by the introduction of Aspirates, the transcribers of the works of Homer neglected to mark it, and at length the vestiges of its existence were confined to a few ancient Inscriptions. The harmonious ear of the Poet had led him sedulously to avoid every hiatus of vowels ; but the absence of the Digamma made him inharmonious and defective. To remove...
Page viii - GREEK GRAMMAR; with Notes for the use of those, who have made some Progress in the Language.
Page 128 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore base?
Page 6 - The four first are declined with Gender, Number, and Case. There are three GENDERS: Masculine, "Feminine, and Neuter. There are three NUMBERS: The Singular speaks of one. The Dual*, of two, or a pair.
Page 195 - DIGAMMA. THE original Pelasgic, and the old Dialects of (Greece, admitted few, or no Aspirates. The Digamma was early adopted to prevent the hiatus, which the concurrence of vowels would produce.* Aspirates were afterwards introduced into all...
Page 95 - It consists of analogies, as far as they can be applied to any species of Verbs ; but in general it contains the particular formation of each tense in common use. Of the following Verbs those, which are used only in the Present and Imperfect, will be found in the first 1 Such is the case in some Latin Verbs.
Page 50 - Verbs compounded with Prepositions take the Augment between the Preposition and the Verb ; as, irtpi¡itvia, I await, wtpufifvov ; but in the vernacular the Augment is often placed before the Preposition ; as, ¿mpt/unor.