A C. c. Filmm LEXICON TO XENOPHON'S ANABASIS, ADAPTED TO ALL THE COMMON EDITIONS. BY ALPHEUS CROSBY, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. For the Use both of Beginners and of More Advanced Students. NEW YORK AND CHICAGO: POTTER, AINSWORTH, AND COMPANY. 1876. #due T 1118.76.305 HARVARD COLLEGE (July 14, 1956) LIBRARY R. Peters, Jr. master. "XENOPHON used the language as an instrument of which he was perfectly In his best works he writes as if he did not think about style at all, but simply aimed at saying, in a plain manner, what he had to say. His taste and cultivation gave an unstudied refinement to his diction; and his freedom from all eccentricity and from all excessive specialty of mind, allowed his writings to attain to a sort of national and universal standard, rather than an individual character. And so it has come about that the model of classical Greek prose is considered to be preserved, not in the labored antithetical greatness of the style of THUCYDIDES, nor in the lovely half-poetical diction of PLATO, but in the every-day sentences which make up the page of XENOPHON." - GRANT. Accomplished XENOPHON! thy truth hath shown A brother's glory sacred as thy own. O rich in all the blended gifts that grace HAYLEY. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by ALPHEUS CROSBY, in the PREFACE. SHALL the student commence the reading of Greek with a general or a special lexicon? If the former is chosen, he must expect, 1. Greater labor in finding words. The time required for finding a word in a lexicon is nearly in the direct ratio of the size of the book, and the number of words in its list. The larger the book, the more pages must be turned over, or the more matter scrutinized on a page, commonly both; and the longer its list, the more words must be looked at, before the right one catches the eye. This would seem quite too obvious for remark, were not its disregard so common, and so costly of time to the learner. 2. More labor in finding the required signification. How much time is often painfully spent in looking through a long article, where various meanings, illustrative examples, translations of these examples, references, and remarks are commingled, — before the eye lights upon an appropriate signification; and even after this, not unfrequently, how much in addition, before the different admissible meanings can be brought together and compared for the selection of the best! 3. A difficulty in finding some words at all. This difficulty occurs in the Greek far more than in most languages, from the many euphonic and emphatic changes in its inflection, from crasis, and especially from the various forms of the augment and reduplication, which often render it uncertain even under what letter the search should be commenced. The considerations first presented have also a special application to the Greek, from the copiousness of its vocabulary, and from the variety of form and use which its words obtained through so many centuries, dialects, and kinds of literature. the If relief from these disadvantages is sought in the use of an abridged general lexicon, then a more serious evil is often substituted, absence of what is needed, in the place of labor in finding it. The great use which is wisely made of Xenophon's Anabasis in elementary study seems to entitle it to all the advantages which a special lexicon can confer. In more advanced reading, when comparatively few words present themselves as strangers, and a more comprehensive view of the language is sought, there can, of course, be no adequate substitute for a good general lexicon. |