The Elements of Greek Grammar: With Notes, for the Use of Those, who Have Made Some Progress in the Language

前表紙
D.N. Shury, 1807 - 206 ページ

この書籍内から

ページのサンプル

多く使われている語句

人気のある引用

155 ページ - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
7 ページ - 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.
198 ページ - 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.
197 ページ - 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...
viii ページ - GREEK GRAMMAR; with Notes for the use of those, who have made some Progress in the Language.
128 ページ - 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?
6 ページ - 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.
195 ページ - 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...
95 ページ - 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.
50 ページ - 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.

書誌情報