Glass ?A I $ % Book ■ S f GRAMMAR *» fc 5 Q OF THE, GREEK LANGUAGE, ON A SIMPLE BUT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, ACCOMPANIED WITH SYNOPTIC TABLES. BY A. SCOTT. llonDon : PllINTED FOR JOSEPH BOOKER, BOND-STREET; G. WHITTAKER, AVE-MAR1A LANE ; AND SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONERS* HALL COURT. -^V* M London : Printed by J. B. NichoJs and Son, 25, Parliament-street. ADVERTISEMENT. This work differs from the larger grammars at present in use in this respect, that, while in those large grammars, principles are partially, obscurely and circumlocutorily stated, in many places and at great length, swelling the volume, burthening the memory, and obstructing the pro- gress, of knowledge, — in these smaller works the same prin- ciples are, by a careful generalization, stated once, dis- tinctly and impressively. It differs from the smaller grammars at present in use in this respect, that its " brevity " is not procured by " omission" While it is suited to the capacity of the child by its extreme simplicity, and to the adult by the absence of sense- less puerility, it omits no one grammatical fact or princi- ple, and may each, in all its leading principles, be committed to memory in a very short time, when the attempt to read, write, and speak in the language, ought immediately to be begun ; no Exercise being of equal value. GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. PART I. ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION. A HE Greeks have 24 letters, whose figure, name, and power are as follow. Figure. Name. Power. 1. Afl6 oc,\

: phi ph. 22. X X x~ chi kh. 23. * 4, ¥ , psi ps, or bs 24. n u u u.-.ya. omega o long, or open.* Iii the beginning of a word not £. qivmix B£, or 172, for *> and *>, £ or ee, as SeeXos- for Srjxor II, x. 466, and o. The ^olians retained the ancient mode of writing. ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION. J express this same V consonant, as CEYHPOC, Severus, TECITAISANOS, Vespasianus (where another sort of sigma is used). But we cannot on that account suppose that the ov or v was pronounced like v. It merely formed that faint labial sound which approaches to V, when slightly articulated. The Greeks, moreover, sometimes rendered by a jS the Latin words that begin with a V, /3«A% for valere, because, as they no longer used the digamma, they had nothing that came nearer to it ; and, on the other hand, the Greek B was changed in Latin into V, as jSc^w, vado. The Dorians, it may further be observed, expressed the digamma, or iEolic V by (3, and often interchanged

y^ov for Kr ungere, fo'ify&fxa., apparui, and *YK°s f hasta. But then it did not so much supply the place of a y, as of a new character, necessary to express this sound, which is neither that of a y, nor of an v, but a compound of both. A. It is probable that the ancients pronounced ^ like the modern Greeks, with a slight hissing, or like dth, whence it came, that £ of the present tense was changed into o- in the future. GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. E was doubtless pronounced like our e m met, — slen- derer than the -n, and broader than the *. z. Z is equivalent to So-. Hence the Dorics by transposi- tion took their o$, saying o-hvs for ^vc, c-Svyog for £ft>yo,-. A; was accordingly used for this letter before its invention. Hence the Latins also frequently changed this £ into D, and sometimes into S, taking odor from o£Wv, massa from uu?a, and patrisso from tzut^u, &c. H. K ought to have a middle sound betwixt s and a, or like a mfate. Hence Eustathius, who lived towards the close of the twelfth century, says that /?>?, fir, is a sound made in imi- tation of the bleating of sheep, and quotes to this purpose the following verse of an ancient writer : Is fatuus perinde ac ovis b&, be" dicens incedit. It cannot be concluded, from the pronunciation of some nations, as the Boeotians, who said u for *j, as appears from some inscriptions, that r, had the sound of t, since the an- cients would not have noticed the Boeotian pronunciation of the r, or h as any thing particular, had they themselves pronounced it so. Moreover, Simonides, who invented the two long vowels D and m, did it with no other intent than to make them differ from the two short ones i and o. 0. © was pronounced as it is at this day pronounced by the modern Greeks, and as th is pronounced by ourselves. T and the mark of aspiration were accordingly used for this letter before its invention. I. I was pronounced slender like i in pin, ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION. 5 K. K always had the sound of k. Hence they wrote Kixfym for Cicero. A. A was pronounced like our /. M. M had the same sound as among us. N. Quintilian says that the m was frequently used at the end of words in Latin, but never in Greek, and that the Greeks then changed it into n, because the n had a more agreeable sound, though it was rare in Latin to see words ending with this letter. Hence it must be an error to pre- tend that in Greek the n ought to be pronounced like an m before 0, tt, or y. ; since at the end of words it would be a barbarism to say tov (3lov, as if it were torn bion, rnv usgiSec, as if tern merida, and the like. H was pronounced ks or gs, taking the place of X among us. Kc, Xc, and r? were ascordingly used for this letter before its invention. o. O approached in sound to u, or was like the close o of the Italians. n. n was pronounced like our p. P. P was pronounced like our r. s. The pronunciation of a- was firm and intire, as well be- tween two vowels, as in any other place. Wherefore it is to be pronounced in Xgwo-ws in the same manner as in . $ ought not to be pronounced like a simple/, but like pf. jQuintilian accordingly remarks, that Cicero rallied a Greek who used to pronounce Fundanius like Qundnnius, viz. Pfhundanius. IT and the mark of aspiration were ac- cordingly used for this letter before its invention. X. X was pronounced like kh. K and the mark of aspira- tion were used for it before its invention. f was pronounced like ps or bs. Hence 11$ or B? were used for this letter before its invention. Q. : Qjj.iyoc was distinguished from outx^ov in the pronuncia- tion : this last being pronounced on the extremity of the D1PHTH0KGS. 7 lips ; and the other in the hollow of the mouth, as being of a fuller sound, n had, in short, the sound approaching to a, which constitutes the open o of the Italians. This is confirmed by our having at>Xa£ or «Aaf , sulcus ; r^vixa. or rfijj.cc, according to the Dorics 5 whence it is that the Latins haye also caudex or codex, caurus or corus, &c. Hence also The Julians said rpoTo? for r?«Tos, exerci- tus ; ovu for avw, supra. Which the Latins imitated in borrowing domo from caw*, and saying Fabius for Fovius ; Farreus for forreus, &c. DIPHTHONGS. A*. The diphthong cu requires both these letters to be sound- ed, and not a sound which would confound it with w. The Romans, according to Quintilian, formerly pro- nounced this diphtiiong by an «, and i, in the same manner as the Greeks. The same is likewise attested by Scaurus, an ancient grammarian, who says, that the Latins having borrowed this diphthong of the Greeks, and having after- wards changed it for ce, they still pronounced it in such a manner, as to distinguish the two vowels. The authority, moreover, of the poets, who divided a£ into two syllables, as Virgil in these genitives auliii, pictai, &c. is sufficient to prove, that the sound of those two let- ters was distinguished in the diphthong. E* was also pronounced by two vowels, and had a fuller sound than Img, Hermogenes, treating of the final cadence of periods, says, that diphthongs and vowels are generally graceful at the end of words ; though to this rule si was an exception : but if they ended with a single t, as that vowel rather closes the mouth than Jills it, the sentence then has nothing sonorous or sublime. In which he shews, that though the sound of « be less full than that of other diphthongs, it is still however different from that of a single t, since he makes so particu- lar a distinction between them. 8 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. From 'tpifh&a, shuv, the Romans made, indeed, Iphi- genla, icon. By the ancient Greeks, however, they were pronounced separately, which mode is retained by poets and Ionians ; as in op, 'ArpsiSxs. This practice is intel- ligible, if we assume that a was pronounced like *£ sepa- rately, yet in one syllable ; so that, according to the dif- ferent dialects, sometimes e, sometimes i had the leading sound. Ay. This diphthong was pronounced distinctly, like the pre- ceding. Ev. This was doubtless also pronounced distinctly. It is quite without reason that some attempt to pro- nounce ay in Greek like af, and eu like ef as if i-^ixlv was an/, and not an u ; or as if a diphthong could be formed of a vowel and a consonant, instead of two vowels. Aris- tophanes, indeed, to express the barking of a dog, made him say a J a.5. But ef and af would be so harsh, that there is no similar instance in Greek: e. g. v.afs, Orphefs, pepaidevntai, for vxvg, 'OpQivc, Trrrai^a'vra;. O*. This diphthong was doubtless pronounced distinctly. Oi might seem to have the same sound as ;, from the in- terchange of Aot/xo> and Xiy.o; in Thucydides II. 54. But this interchange appears to have arisen not so much from the similar sound of o* and t, as from the remaining resem- blance of the two words, and the corruption so easily in- troduced by tradition. Had 01 been pronounced like t, the two words which occur in Hesiod, Epy. 241. tot/*&» ojxov *at /U/u,ov could not have been distinguished, at least so long as the poems did not exist in writing, but only in reci- tation. Ov. . This diphthong was also pronounced distinctly. ( 9 ) CLASSIFICATION OF THE LETTERS. Of the letters seven are Vowels. Two short : f, o. Two long: n, u. Three doubtful : a, ;, v. The latter are called doubtful, because they are long in some syllables and short in others. A vowel is called pure, when it follows a vowel ; and impure, when it follows a consonant. In the former case it is called pure, because it forms a syllable of itself, with- out being mixed with a consonant. There are twelve Diphthongs : Six proper: cct, av, u, sv, oj, ov, Six improper „• a, *, «, w, vt, uv. In the formation of the proper diphthongs, i and v are placed after a., e, or o. Hence the former are called Sub' junctive, and the latter Prepositive. In the formation of the improper diphthongs, * and v are placed after the same vowels made long, a, n, or u. The *, then become silent, is subscribed, or placed under the former vowel. For this reason ut is sometimes written y. When two vowels, which generally coalesce into a diph- thong, retain their separate sounds, two dots are placed over the latter vowel, and form a diseresis, as «uV*o$. Of Vowels and Diphthongs, some are changeable and some unchangeable ; The changeable Vowels are - - a, ?, o, And the unchangeable - - - », *, v. The changeable Diphthongs are - «u, av 3 And the unchangeable - - - n, tv, ov. There are seventeen Consonants, viz. Nine Mutes - - - 0, y, d, 0, x, v, v, Seven Semi- Vowels - (, X, ju., >, f , £, >l, — and ^' Each soft mute has its corresponding middle and aspi- rate, into each of which it is frequently changed 3 thus t: has (3 for its middle, and

yu x$> form I ; rg, $$, Qc, form f. The remaining four are liquids .- x, p, v, p. {y before y, x, %, Xi ju before /5, /*, v, $, \ 5 A, p, and cr, before A, p, &. Thus lyypdtpco for IvypoiQco ; Ipfialvv for lv(3xtvu> &C. ; SO in Latin, impedio for inpedio ; illudo for inludo, &c 3 and an- ciently aggulus for angulus, &c. ASPIRATIONS, ACCENTS, &c There are two Breathings : the aspirate (), which the Greeks use instead of the letter H, as Ux%v ; and the soft ('), which denotes the absence of the aspirate ; as clXXcc. Y and p at the beginning of a word have always the aspi- rate. If two p come together, the former has the soft, the latter the aspirate : thus ?ppeov. Anciently H was the aspirate in Greek, as it is in Latin : thus HEKATON was written for kaTov. The parts of the H were next taken to denote the breathings ; and the mark of the soft was -| , of the aspirate, f-. This form was af- terwards simplified into J and L ; and lastly it was rounded into the present shape, ' and \ ASPIRATIONS, ACCENTS, &C. H The iEolians, who avoided the aspirate, used another sound, similar to a V or a W, to prevent the hiatus occa- sioned by the meeting of vowels in different syllables : this was called the digamma, because its figure resembled two gammas, one over the other, as F or F. Thus they wrote Fsa-wepx for eo-fflpa, wFcv for wok, Fioo* for i'^ov. Hence the Latin vespera, ovum, video, &c. The digamma was not pronounced so strong as we now pronounce the V consonant, for which reason it produced no position in verse. Accent is the depression or elevation of the voice in pronouncing a Syllable, and is either Acute ('), Circum- flex 0, or Grave ( N ). , The Acute accent raises the voice, and affects one or more of the last three syllables of a word, if it has so many ; as o-otyoc, Ko&pcc, clyyzhoc. The Circumflex lengthens the sound, and affects either the last syllable of a word, or the last but one ; as Trotw, fiooirs. The Grave depresses the voice, and affects the last syllable only : as t»^»i. Words marked with an Acute accent on the last syllable are called Oxytona ; with a Circumflex, Circumflexa ; and such as have no Accent, or a Grave on the last syllable, are called Gravitona, or Barytona. The Apostrophe ('), marked at the head of a letter in the end of a word, denotes that the Vowels a, e, t, or o, and sometimes the Dipthongs on or o*, are cut off, the next word beginning with a Vowel j as vag \^o\ for w«p«. Ipo), with me ; jSaXojw l-yw v for /SaXojuat lyu, I would rather. When the Apostrophe leaves any of the smooth Conso- nants 7T, jc, r, before a Vowel Aspirate, the smooth Conso- nant is changed into one of the rough kind corresponding with it, viz. 7T into an d r into : lp i7T7r« for Itt* tTTTTtf, on the Horse ; vu'^G' oXrv for vvkIcc oXnv, the whole night. Both the words ought, in this case, to be pro- nounced together as one. Sometimes a Vowel is cut off in the beginning of a 12 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. word ; as a Wf for Z aval, King. Both the word.? ought then also to be pronounced as one. Sometimes two words are joined in one ; as EysJfta* for lyu oip.cu, I think. When the following word begins with a Vowel, v is, for the sake of better sound, usually added to the Third Person of Verbs ending in e or v. The Dual has only two terminations: one for the Nomi- native, Accusative and Vocative j the other for the Geni- tive 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. € ARTICLE. The Article 6, »>, to, this or the, serves to distinguish the Genders of Nouns, &c. and is declined thus : Sing. Dual. Plural. N. o, n> TO, ol, at. TO,, G. Ttf, T>1?> T«, N. A. tw, rex,, TW, TUV, TWV, TWJ, D. Tffl, ™, TW, to7?, t«?j, TO?J A. TOV, rnv, TO. G. D. TOiV, TCUV, To?y. TsV, T«£, T66. The article usually answers to the definite article the in English. When no article is expressed in Greek, the En- glish article indefinite a is signified. Thus avfywTz-o* means a man, or ma in general ; and 6 av9p«7roc, the man. NOUN. Declensions of Nouns are three, answering to the three first Declensions in Latin. The first ends in a and n feminine, and in «» and »s mas- culine. 14 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE, The lirsttwo Declensions subscribe * in the Dative singular. The second ends in oc generally masculine and sometimes feminine, and ov neuter. The third ends in cc, i, v neuter ; a feminine ; v, %, p, ?, 4. of all Genders, and increases in the Genitive. To the Common Gender belong such Nouns as signify both Sexes 5 as 6 k»\ y> oivfyuvos, a Man or Woman ; 6 %&a n (j.ccprvp 3 vpog, a Witness. Such Nouns as are found to be of different Genders in different Authors are said to be of the Doubtful Gender j as or »j x«0of, a, a Stone 5 5 or « tp&pvy^, yyyo?, the Throat. FIRST DECLENSION. Singular. Dual. Plural. X. MouV-«, N. MoGV-a;, G. MoeV-^c, N. A. V. Mou'cr-a, G. Movr-wv, I>. MoyV«*j, D. MoyV-aie, A. MoyV-av, G. D. Mojcr-atv. A. MoyV-aj, V. "hlovu-a V. Movcr-oa. I. Nouns in $«, )a, pa, and a p^re, make the Genitive in a?, the Dative in #, and the rest like Movcrx : thus N QtXloi, G. ^iX/a?, D. $ 3 — compounds in sru?, as xwwttvj? ■; — nouns in rig derived from /*sTpw, nuXu, rpifioj, as, ytopitpnq ; or denoting nations, as Tlifa-ng, Persian, V. Ilspc-a ; but IT/po-ru, the name of a man, has Ilspc-n : ^ayvrj?, pivuixuric, 7rvpec,l%[jt.Y)<; also make a ; but Alrtrns, aivapsr^j, xa^PuAajwTETvij make n. Nouns in o-t*$ make a and n. The iEolians and Macedonians adopted the termination a even in the N. of these nouns : thus ivirora for prsrems. Hence the Latin N. Poeta, Athleta, &c. 16 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK, LANGUAGE, £ -I § § § 1 is « a 1 I i '§< a ^3 l- b t« ^ I 3-.: -•-;-• * § *s « g s a. »8 " 8 "8 ^8 ^ "3 ea < H *- ej h) 1 1 s -,'i-'i-|i a ii & til-it 8 t- P C 8 %*%■ 8 8 '§. 8 •8 2 - i a w » ^ - "■g ^ 8 » f- § 8' g g 8 '1 g g « 8- "•* b b b b b .bv§ b b b b b ^ First N. NOUN. IJ Synoptical view of the Terminations alone. Term. Second Term. Third Term. Fourth Term. Singular. us «? G. ag Ub D. a, y A. ay '/?» V. cc '1 Dual. N. A. a G. D. aty Plural. N. at G. wj» D. fl5*'ff A. a? Singular SECOND DECLENSION. Dual. Plural. N. Aoy-oc, N. X$y*8ty G. Xoy-cv, N. A. V. Aoy-w, G. Aoy-wy, D. \6y-u, D. A&7" *-'> A. \6y-ov, G. D. Aoy-oty. A. Aoy-ovj, N. Aoy-f. V. Aoy-ot. The second Deel fusion of L atin nouns 1 s analogous to this Synoptical or Comparative View of its two forms. Singular. TO |VA0V rov <;vXov TU3 %v'X(i) TO fl>AoJ» fvAoy c 3 N. o kyyikoc, G. rov ocyysXov D. 7w ayytAw A. Toy ayyfAov V. «yyfAf 18 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Dual. N. A. t« ctyytXu r» qvXu G. D. to7v kyyiXow Plural. ro?y %vXon N. ol ocyysXoi ra. %vXa. G. Twv ctyysX'jJv Twv qvXwv D. to7$ ayysXotg to 7? ^vXotg A. tov'c a-yyiXovg ra. f uX» V. ctyytXoi £vX». Synoptical View of its Termination. First Second Firs* Secomi Term. Term. Term. Term, SINGULAR. Dual. Plural. N. o> ov N. ** a G. ov N.A.w G. wv D. a G.D. o*y D: 0*5 A. oy A. OVi a V. E OY V. « a THIRD DECLENSION. Singular. Dual. Plural, N. CTWTYig, N. aa>TYip-e$, G. c, as l\nU, ^Xa/Auj. 4. Nouns in »iv, as wot/Wv. 5. Oxytons in wv, as Z«p7ni^wv. 6. "Aa-trip, S»fy, n/»?p, &c. But the Poets, in many of these, prefer the termination shortened either in the quantity or in the number of letters. Nouns in «?, evros, make the V. in ft and ev, as %»pG*$, V. X*p'u" and xxfa' f uva*f makes yuv«>. "Av«| often makes &«. Dative Plural Is formed, I. From the Dative Singular by inserting o- before t ; as ijwnjp, crumpi, a-urripcri ; yu-^, yvwl, yu\^*. But ^, 0, v, r, are dropped for the sake of softness, as Xupvolh, Xxfjcnracri. Ovt* is changed into ovo-i, as tv'tttovtj, tuVtouc*. II. Words ending in g after a diphthong add 1 to the No- minative Singular ; as «/we)ij f twsTo-i. Except KTilc-j xtso-1 ; opo[AVjc y , dpopicn ; viei/g, wiser* j oug, cJcr* j 5rou\, ttoo-Ij which are regular from wmit, Spopn, v\h, wt), Tool. Tps7g makes rptui. III. Nouns syncopated make the Dative in aw, as rrotrrip, sraTspt, trarpi, 7raTpa.o~t. This is done to avoid harshness. Thus in dv^pao-i, $ is inserted because p never follows v. Tocarvip retains yctc-Tripo-i. Xsip makes x^ from the poetic ^sp*. These rules apply to adjectives and participles as well as to substantives. Examples of the Third Declension rejecting the Consonant before [A0t, — ra G. Twy crw/xec — Twy ruv [At\l — rwy t« yoy— «t« Twy yoy — arwy D, to7$ a-ufxK — crt ro7g ju-fXi — a? to7§ yoy — a<7* A. ra crw/Aa— t« rx /xsAt — ra rat> yoy- — sera V. crwjua — t« piXi — ra yoy — «t« N. o priv, G. tou jtxny — of D. tw jw,»)y — < A. Toy jonjy— a V. fm'y N. A. tw /ictjy— G. D. roTy p.*jv- Termination v p $ (| 4) Singular. 6 TTOifAW TOU TTOijtX — £yoj TW ttoi/a — Eyt Toy Trot/* — £y« woi/Atfy Dual. TW TTOijW, — £yi 7y To7y xoifj. — £yoi* o Xsuv. rov XEoy-=— TOf tw Xbov — n Toy XEoy— -T* \tov tw Xsoy— TE ToTy Xt9v — roiy Plural. N. ol prill — ej ot iroip—-tng ol Xscvreg G. TWy JJI.YIV U9 Twy 7ro*ju, — £ywy Twy XsovTwy D. ToTj (juujWi) fxri-'g-i to7j woifA, — sen to7$ Xs— over* A. rovg ur,v — ug rov y g •Troijx — Eya$ tou v j Xe— oyTaf V. pr,v— ig TTOijU £y££. Singular. Xfovrsg. N. \X"P> f 1 yiyug, o iraTg G. rng x H P°S rov yly — ccyrog TOU 7TGW $0£ D. rf X«P» tw yiy — a»Ti tw 9rai=— di A. rsjy %£7pa Toy yly — ayTa Toy wa7— -<$a V. X ?i/ P y/yay 7TCU 22 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Dual. N. G. A. t« x< : ? ; D. 7cc7v p£jpo?y 7w y/y — avTEj ro7y y*y — ayT0*y Plural. TOi TfXi 06 "y crxi — Sou N. G. TiJy xupwv ol y?y — avTfj oi Trcc'idsg TUV itcdi — duv D txTs x-pai to 7$ yiy — «copa— %oj T« XOpa-— Xi TOV KOpOi X« HOpOC.%. N G . A. to) xopa— XE . D. To?y xopa— -xoty N. G. D. A. V. ol Kopa.—'Kig tuv Kopa. — xwv to7j xopa— ft TOV j Kopec — xas XOpOJ XEJ. Example in which the s originating from n } is rejected. (Syncope.) Singular. Dual. Plural. N. KCCTYip N. ol Kocrsptg G. tou nxrspoc, rtocrpoq G. Twy TraTspw? D. TW KClTEpl, TTXTpi N. A. TW TTOTEpE D. to7> Traxpaai A. Toy "TTcnipx. G. D. ToTy 7TaTtpoty A. touj 'za.iipa.q V. swrep. V. Bssffipss, Synoptical View of its Terminations. Singular. N. a, |, V, », *, P, ( G. o? D. i A. a, y V. Nom. Dual N. A. f G. D. Oi> NOUN. 23 Plural. N. «s G. U)7 D. tan A. O.C Tabic to assist in finding the form of the nominative, when that of the genitive, or of another case is known. In general the genitive in Soc > comes from the nominative in TOi. he y roc) yoc "\ X.70CJ _m x° roc. yyos yl VOq> ^ QocJ no: i with the penultima long TTcr\or»i avro?J } -•- {; Especially : . ccc, av, avc , e. g. vaoj, ypaoj, from vayr> yp SVTOf so? iWj, >»£, o? 7 v, y$- spo? *)p SW? 6, V, VS$ BVq 10! » h V, *5 tTo; * tyo? '?>*-' VOJ v oyo? &>v ovto? &•.>, ovq oo? u, uc, ovq opoj up, Of 24 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. «? from the nominative in <,, Tpuos Tp£$, «Xo$ a.\> WS *<> c ?j *»« ?o? 7, >? . . , U> " ,0? 1 . , . "" \ •KTO> J Synoptical view of ike Terminations of all the Declensions, Singular. I. II. III. N. *, n d ft V? 05, oj» N. 1 G d >i? ov ov OS D. a-r, V » A. av-vt on fit-* V. a-n 1, or N. Dual. N. A. v.« • I G. D. SUP Plural, Q4» N. a* on, a N. «<> *N G. ' ft/y ut s;» D at; ots ai A. a 09$ *f* *N. V cu 0*, *N. «s, a N. ( 25 ) CONTRACTION. Two syllables, in which two or more vowels meet toge- ther, are often contracted into one. A contraction of two syllables into one, without a change of letters, is called Synceresis ; as Tsr^i", reign. If there is a change of vowels, it is called Crasis; as TE*%£Off, rtixo'jc. Contraction takes place in every Declension. Contracts of the First Declension. Ef* is contracted into w ; as yia,, yy, G. yictg 3 yy$, &c. Pf«, and all other terminations, drop the former vowel ; as l§s«, sfM) G. Epsaj, Ipaj, &C. c'ttXom, oVXri, G. aTrXoSij, aTA?K> &C Contracts of the Second Declension. If the latter vowel is short, the contraction is in ov : if long, the former vowel is dropped - } as voo?, vou?, G. voov, vov, &C The compounds of voo; and p'6o? are not contracted in the neuter plural, or in the Genitive ; thus we say, euyoa, vjyouv, not vjvx, ivvuv. Zccos is contracted thus s Sing. N. a-oloc, cruiq, A. cra'ov, trS* . PI. A. ? v p, AnpTJip, and Suyarnp, are syncopated in all cases, except the N. and V. Singular, and the D. PI. So also dpw, apsvos, "a'pyoj j xvwv, y.vovoc, kwc%. To these may be joined w,T» r p, ^*j't»p, and yacrrrfy ; but they are not synco- pated in the A. Sing, in the G. or A. PI. to avoid the simi- NOUN. « W larity with tfarpa, /xn'rpa, and y*or|>«, of the first Declen- sion. 6. Neuters in «? pure and pa? are both syncopated and contracted in every case, except the N. A. and V. Sing. and the D. PI. thus, N. xspa?, G. KEpaTOJ, X-'pCiOJ, X.'^S, D. KSptZ.71, *Sg«#y *^«« Dual. N. A. V. Jta'pcm, xspaf, XEpa, G. D. JtEpfifcTOiV, KZpdloiV, KEffV. Plural. N. A. V. asfarcc, xspaoi, Ktpot) G. Kspoiruv, y.igxuv, ks^wv. 7, Some nouns are contracted in e^erz/ case : thus s«p, £p, G^ £«poj, ripof, &C Xwccj, Xa?, G. Xaecoj, Aao?, &e. . IRREGULAR NOUNS. I. Some nouns have different genders in the singular and in the plural. Masculine in the Sing, and neuter in the PI. £;<£>p-o?,—a ; sp£T|x-o?, -a 3 ^vy-os, -a ; n^p-os, a ; p,o^A-oj, -a ; vwt-oj, «• ; puV-o?, a; ctTt-oj, a} -°$t -0* and a. Feminine in the Singular, feminine and neuter in the Plural, *sXeu9-oj, -01 and a. II. Some have different declensions. Of these some have different terminations in the Nom. as vllg, uwoj and vlog ; pd-KCLp, (Aoixoipg and (Aoixxpioi; y ScLxpv, ^ixKpvov ; TrXavoi;, ttXccvi) y crrpixroi;, crrpoiricc ; ^Xoca'Trtp, irXxtrr^c, ; c-ttcHvk;, critocncc j dsv^po?, ^Ev^poy ; asOXov, asGXioy j $"}?, Stv ; Sopv, oopxq ; yovv and yova, &C So we find {JLYiXcc and /u>?/Wr#, wpofiy.Toi; and 7rpo/3#cn, yepoyrois and yspoutfj, &c. d2 28 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Some admit different inflections from the same Nomina live, as riyptg, -to? and -iSog ; S-fju-i^ -i$o? and -ic-tos 5 ©c£x-n?, -oy and -jitoj ; *Ap-*i$, -ow, -so? and -utoj ; the compounds of Kovg make in the Gen. nov and wo&o &c. Some are declined from obsolete Nominatives ; as yvvj, yvvouxog, from yv'jou%] ydXoc, yci\a.KTo$, from yccAaf j ri7rap, w*«-ros j ps«p> (PpzccTos ; t$wp, vScctos, &C. Aigw; makes A*ovuv in the A. and Aiovv in the other cases. The name of Jupiter is thus varied : ZrJg, G. , D. , A.Z*uv, V. Zsv. or Aefc or B&vV, ZjiV, Znvoj, Z-/5V*, ZJjvce. A*s, Aioc, A*i, A/a. III. Some are undeclined, and are called Aptots; as, Aw for Sufxct ; xoipcc, j the names of the letters ; foreign names not susceptible of Greek inflections. IV Some have one case only, and are called Monoptots ; as, In the Sing. N. &£?. V. u> t&v. In the PI. N. xa-axXu- 9eg. G. lauv. V. u '7767701. V. Some have but two cases, and are called Diptots ; as, *'Ajut^w, a-fj-tyoTv 5 tyQoist;, $Qoiot<; 3 Xlj, Xlv. VI. Others have only J/wee„ cases, and are called Trip- tots 3 as, G. aXXrj'X-«y, D. ctAAflX-ois, ctiSy 01$, A. aXXrjX-ot>s, a?, a. These have only the N. A. and V. jSpETaj, &/***> AjVaj, o-eXxs, yooc, ovap, otyOvoq, VII. Some have no Singular; as, the names of festivals; some names of cities, &c. VIII. Others have no Plural: as, tV AX?, yn, sXatov, wup, and many others known by the sense. DERIVATIVE NOUNS. Derivative Nouns are such as are derived from other Nouns, and are either Patronimics, Gentiles, Possessives, Diminutives, Amplificatives, or Denominatives. I. Patronimics. From the Father's name ihe Greeks form an appellative for the descendants, generally according to the following rules : . DERIVATIVE NOUNS. 29 XL To form the names of Men, the termination of the G. of the Father's name is changed into ihs, Kpovou Kpow- hg, 'Arpso? 'Arpst^?. From the names of the First Declen- sion, or which have i in the penult, the change is into ulng, as Bopiov Bopea^ic, 'HXtou 'HXiolhs. If the penult, is long* the change is into i*^»js, as TeXa^Syo? TsA«|/.c«majj or to?. Some also end in |, «?, or u?; as 0paf, a Thraciari; "Apjca?, an Arcadian; AiGvg, a Libyan; and some in wv, as MaxsJoJy, a Macedo- nian. The Feminines end in a, o-?, ov, of Delos. MaVtxoj, >j, ov, poetical. 'AyQ»ipo?, a, ©y, flowery. 'AyQpwTnyoj, n, ov, humane. AiQu>$v><;, eos, stony. Derived from'Ejcrwp, ypavoj, fxScof, tvo?, og, or w^*?? ; and some in both nog and txoj; as (3ourfauo$ or fiourifaKos, royal. IV. Diminutive Nouns are such as diminish or soften the Signification of their Primitives, as, Nsano-Kos, a 3 a young man. At'Qaf, «ko?, a small stone, na»&Vxu, uj, a young girl, iVnov, #, a little woman. d3 30 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. 'EXo^/jjjj, y, a young fawn. Kv^xvog, s, a small enp. Kp»vJc, Qoc, a small fountain. nEAapy^£tK,£> & c - as s, a burning torch. X?p/Lta^ioy, y, a big stone. ITAsTa|, ccKoq, very rich. From p^iXae, vruyuv, ^^.a,c, ape, dale, and ttXSto^. They end in &>v, ac, oy, oe, ij, or a£. VI. Denominatives are Nouns derived from other Nouns, either Substantives or Adjectives. Such as are Mascu- line end in ag, ue p nc, oe, uSyg, or w : as, Mtytrac, a.voc, a nobleman. Ka^wt/xoc, &?, fruitful. Xxplnc, dito;, favourable. 'AkrAv&g, &?, true. 'Onttrtih s > a domestic. AiQft&je, eo?, stony. E7r&r£«roc, a, diligent. 'EAoacJv, wvoc, an olive yard From /Asyiroj, great 5 ;k«pk> favour ; oixof, an house; c77ri?o» v , care, study 3 xccpro;, fruit 5 cUuSnc, truth ; ?u'6'oe, a sione ; 'ixothov, oil. Denominatives of the Feminine Gender are likewise formed, some from Adjectives, and some from Substantives. They end in na, ik, oia, apa, cava, era, vvn, rng, a $> felicity. Kaxorric, r^log, malice. 'Ewoia, at, benevolence. TlapaxoChs, koc, a wife. z,'J~lupa, a:, she that saveth. ©£«, «e, a goddess. BspoiTrutva, v$, an handmaid. TLcinrpiu, ae, a poetess. Bao-lxia-a-a, r,c } a queen. 'AvXv>Tp)g, 3oc, a music girl. From EuraCriV, pious; &%%$$, happy; evvoo$, benevolent; tr^7)7p, a deliverer; $epoivw A a servant; fiourfavs, a king; GENDER OF SUBSTANTIVES. 31 $UctH>$, just ; xxKog, evil 5 Trapaxoiln?, an husband ', 0Ea?, a god \ koiyitvs, a poet j a.v\nTr><:, a piper. GENDER OF SUBSTANTIVES. The gender of the substantive is determined partly by the signification, and partly by the termination. Fre- quently the termination and the signification accord. I. ThefollowingaredeterminedbytheirSiGNiFiCATioNS 1 Masculine. 1. All names of male persons or animals. 2. The names of the months, as 6 pfv, the month itself, 3. The names of rivers, except some, in which the ter- mination prevails, e. g. n AnQ* t ( the river Lethe.' Feminine. 1. All names of female persons or animals, e. g, n' 'Act- Txcrix, yi Asovxiov, except diminutives, e. g. to x.opa,i wdirvpos, ' the papyrus,' 6, *| xoTtyoj, ' the wild olive-tree.' 3. The names of countries, islands, and towns, e. g. w A'iyvTTTog, r, 'Lapot;, w 'Podoj, n Aa.ju,aa->to$, w Tpoi^Vv, *j Ti'pi/vj # 1. The following are excepted: 1st. names of towns in ous, Es?uvovf, XxtXXous, 'EXeou?, ITfa-crtvouj, &C. ; 2nd. names of towns in wv, 6 Mehwv, MapaO^v, except n c RxfivXuv j (MapaQwv is masculine in Herod, feminine in Pind. Stjcuwv also is masculine and feminine.) 3d. Those in »?, v^to?, 5 Mao-jj?. 4th. Names of towns which have only the plural, are mas- culine when they end in oi, feminine when in a,i; neuter when in a, t« AsvKrpx. 5th, Names of towns in a$, e. g. 'A^paya?, f the city of Agrigentum/ r> 'AKp. 6 Tapa?, 3# GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. 6 the city of Tarentum,' v Tapccg. Apyoj, Eof, is of the neuter gender. 2. Many names of islands and cities are of both genders ; as Zaxuv9oc, 'ETrlcccvpoc, 'Qpanro:, and UvXoq. The usual name to "l\iov is in Homer r> "ixioc, except in the suspected pas- sage 11. 6, 71. 3 Names of animals, which are of the common gender, are frequently used in Greek in the feminine, when there is no reference to the sex, but to the name of the animal ge- nerally. When there is a determinate reference to the sex, the proper gender is used -, frequently, however, not. II. The following rules are observed in the termina- tions : Words in a, which have a vowel or f, $, 0, x, v, p, c-, be- fore the termination, are feminine, and follow the first de- clension, e. g. n TpaTrsJci, ' the table,' ri £t(pt)spa, * the parch- ment,' i| apXXa, ' the contest,' n s^tJya, c the viper,' &c. Those which have //. before their termination, are neuter, and follow the third declension, e. g. to o-S^a, to A^a, ' the will,' to Ar>/x/xa, ' the gain.' They are mostly derived from verbs, and, indeed, from the first person, perf. pass, also To ytx\x, yaXecKToc. atg of these iraTg is common, $x7$ feminine, and c-tcus neuter. They all follow the third declension. av are all masculine, except that this is also the termina- tion of the neuter of adjectives in «c. They follow the third declension. ap mostly neuter, to ^ap, ' the day,' to tl^p, ' the victuals/ to Qptap, ' the well,' &c. But r> oi^ap, and i oap, f the wife,' take their gender from their signification. us 1. part masculine, which have the genitive in cc-noc, e. g. o IjJiois, l/xoivToq, o avSpixs, av^piavTor. So also b Txpa;, ayrce, ' the city of Tarentum,' and 'A*pxyac, < the city of Agrigentum,' are masculine and feminine. 2. part feminine, which have the genitive in dSo;, e. g. Yt Xa/^a?, ci^og, rt X'zXuac, ttcco-t^. fyj *i #p?i'y, * the intel- lect, and o, »»' x>i'y, * the goose,' common. ■n? are chiefly masculine, except *? yao~T>ip, ' the belly^/ »i xn'p, ' the fate / and those which from their signification are feminine, e. g. ij pmr\p, * Qvycimp. 'An'p, \ the mist/ and f the air,' in masc. and femin. So also o, »' alQJp. mp for x/ap, * the heart j ' np for sap, ' the spring/ o-T>jp for o-rtccp, ' the tallow/ are neuter. ng in the first declension masculine, e. g. o JUivax*?, o ^fo-roVn?, &c. In the third declension also, mostly mascu- line, except those in *j-r, nrog, as « EV0r?'c, and substantives in 6t*k and vmg, which are feminine. In adjectives this is the termination of the masculine and feminine. * are all neutpr, e. g. o-<'v»9n, jasXi. iv are mostly feminine, e g. r! p'i'v, »j w^/v, ■» owriv, n 6/v (or &s )j ' the shore/ (0»'v, ' the heap/ is masculine and /emi- nine), h\$U is masculine. ig feminine, except o nig, ' the weovil / o X??, ' the lion / I ItKfyic. Others, from their signification, are masculine and feminine, e.g. 6, « ot;, o, * Trpo^avrtc, o, *i opvt?. f are 1, masculine, 6 Tn'vaf, 6 ^t»p|u.>if, o Vipa.%, b Odpoc^, o rj cr/xiJif , rj aXwr-nf, rj Qlpjjuy,;, rj o-y'piyf , rj ^omf;, rj 9pt|, ri Capayf, rj avTi/f, *i crn'if, rj Ka, t ux^, rj [xoia-r^, rj irpoi%. 3. Others are common, a) names of men and animals, o, * o&f, 5,, rj ©oaf. o, rj o^eX^al. 6, rj fxzlpu^ I, n $vX«£, a, * 34 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. crKV\a.%. I, vt -rjph^. b) c, r, a.v\ XapvyZ. c, -n srupaf. o, * $%\5 xuwapigsff-of, q ctpixoc, and \]/C6p.juoc, * the sand ;' «c-5t/xtv9oj, ' the bathing-tub 3' ac-jSoXoj, * the soot ;' ugQgCk- roi, ' asplialtus ;' MTpavtog, or arccpKoc, 'the way)' /3aAa»off, * the acorn j ' j5«Vavor, * the touch-stone, the proof 5' yvdQcc, 1 the jaw-bone ;' yu^?, ' the gypsum ;' ^Xto?, * the writ- ing tablet;' ^ojco?, ' the beam ;' Spocroc, ' the dew j' xapvc?, 'the baking oven:' Jt^sTo?, 'the pit;' xap^os-oj, * the kneading-trough j' k&svQo:, ' the path j' KrlpJtoc, « the tail j' s, * the way, and it's compounds;' wXm&s, ' the tile;' npx ooc -> — X ov s> ' tne w &- ler-pot;' wuiXo*, 'the trough;' pa/S^o?, ' the staff;' aYpaxToj, ' the spindle ;' 6, 11 $a,p(2i- ro<;, ' the lyre ;' 0, r 94po;, * the bush ;' 6, 1? 0eo$, ' the god, the goddess ;' 6, A Xffioi* < the stone/ &c. The greater number are adjectives of two terminations. Substantives in 0;, which follow the third declension, are all neuter. ovc are masculine, except to ovc, which comes from ovocc. 0ovc is common, since it signifies * a bull' and ' a cow.' v are neuter, ttZv, va.—v, yaw, dopv, ko-tv. w are masculine. v? are masculine, except to sryp, 0, * pcipTv?. GENDER OF SUBSTANTIVES. 35 v; are feminine, except o fiords, ' the bunch of grapes •* 6 GprvDi, ' the stool 5' 6 l-/Mc, ' the fish}' 6 fxvc 3 * the mouse 3' viKvc, * the corpse j' 6 o-m^u^, s the ear of corn 3' 6 9njy#$, ' the ell/ ' the arm 3' £s and ' the water for washing 3' g o'vj/, ' the voice 3' n xotXavpo^, ( the shepherd's crook,' u are feminine, e. g. w wstOw, »? £#«. «y are masculine. 1 . those which make cvto? in the genitive., e. g. fpoixuv, opv.Ko-nos. 2. the greater part of those which have wvoc in the genitive : except >j «x«y, ' the threshing- floor;' u'yX^&iv, ' penny-royal 3' 4 fjai*m 3 'the poppy 3' [4 rp-ipav, ' the shy dove'] odw/, ' life,' is also feminine. So also o, ri xvciuv, b, ri ocvXuiv. Those which have ovog in the genitive are feminine, e. g. *? ^Xt^wv, ' the swallow 3* ex- cept o axpuv, ' the anvil.' Many are common, as 0, »i nye- <.,^v, * the guide, male or female 3' 6, *5 axacrpvvi, ' the cock/ ' the hen ;' 6, 4 wn&m, ' the nightingale 3' 6, r, otzlum, ' the god/ ■ the goddess j' 0, * mm. The Attic termination uv for ov in the second declension is of the neuter gender, e. g. to uv&ysm, toD — ytv. wp are masculine, except >3 aXs'xTwp, ' the unmarried vir- gin 3 1 »i awp, f the bride/ and the neuter ; to eXwp, f the capture/ ' game/ ' spoil 3' to sX^wp or h'xawp, f the wish 3' to y^»p, ' the water 3' to tU^x^, ' the object, aim.' ws are, in the third declension, 1. w;, cog feminine, e. g. »J atom's, »j wj, 2. w;, wroj and wo? masculine, e. g. spw?, ' the love 5' y=Xw? 3 wtoc, ' the laughter f 6 il<;. euj into aa, e. g. iEpEf'c, ispjia, (3xctiXev$, fioLcrtXzKX. — Into tff and io-o-a, fixXxvcv;, (3xXo>,viq, (3xg-}Xsvc, (BxcnXic, and @x?IXi5, comes from a-r.^x-n-np, if into io-cra, e.g. oTvtf, QqUittx, K*Xif, KiXicrs-a. ' y? into uo-cra, e. g. A'ifijc, Ai[3vcro-x. up into ap«, e. g. Trav^a/xarwp, ftxv&xfj.cifiLpx. The ^m. of ■ryXXnWwp is s-uXXrWpja. Yet probably the basis of them is in the obsolete forms TTxyaxixxr^p and c-i/XX^Trfjj?. E 38 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. uv into envoc, \iuv, Xsouvoc, ^paxwy, ^paxatya, Aolxuv, Aaxaiya, 0fp«7rwy, 9spoe.7raiya, aXsjcTpuw'y, aAsxTpuaiya. #fote. For QspaTaiya also occurs 0sp cc, oy *. «** »> ovf. a?, aaa, ay. uc, atva, ay. »?> «C7a, w. «?, fcrcra, *J. «v, uvoc, fy. ou$, ovcrcc, oy. ovj, evcccc, owy. ^?> HOC, v. v?, vacc, w. uv, vera,. m. U1, ovcrcc, oy. W1, ov, G'D-jU5ixp-o7v,ary,orv ( Plural. 'N. jU.5iX.p-0i, OH, a, G. (JLCCXf-UV , D. jw.axp-o?j, a7f, ©%, A. ^a^p-ovj, aj, a, V. juaxp-ol, a), a. Adjectives in eoj and ooc, not preceded by p, make the Feminine in ». The Middle and New Attics use the termination oj for masculine and feminine, particularly in compounds and derivatives. Singular. N. x.cc\-oc, »i\ ov, G. KCCk-OV, VSj ov, D. JcaA-a?, V> ?*. A. kcc\-ov, r,v, ov, V. koX-e, \ 6v, > In the Dual and Plural like Four Adjectives, oiWoq, 7r>XmovToq, totovroq, toctovtoc. ; and four pronouns, 05 relative, uvtos, and its compounds, ovroc, Us7vog, make the neuter in 0. Totourovj roo-ovrov, and raJrov, neuters, are sometimes found. Some Adjectives in 0; have both their masculine and feminine in 5y", and their Neuter in oy ; as n c kot^w?, to Koapiov, elegant. Also some in qq have their masculine and feminine in uc, and the neuter in m : as r5 ivy we, to tvyim, fruitful. ITpao?, meek, has n?y. E;s is applied to feminine nouns, as r$vs avrju.r>. f These Adjectives sometimes form the accusative singular in ta, as ivpia, movTOv, Singular. N 'tvyv-vs, VO~CC r IV, G. Qvyv-VYToc, v70l)> 3 0VQ-a,iy } QVVT0lV. Plural. N. tvtt-ovvts*;, ovcrcti, 0VV7CC, G. TVK-OVVTUV, OVGVV, OVVTUV, D. TV7T-OVO-1, 0VO-(TA$ 9 OVO~l, A. WTT-ovvrctq, ovcra^ ovvrct, V. iv *S, top, n ? *?* '-> *>$, uv. Singular. Dual. Plural. N. G. D. A. V. ivdo%-oc, ov, h$6%ov, Ivaoqov, hdoZ-e, ov. N. A. G. D. V. \vU\u>, Ivdo^oiv N. G. D. A. V. EVdof-Oi, Iv^o^uv, EVdofoij, Ivdo^-ovg, ivSo^-ot, - ADXOUN. 45 Sing. Dual. Tlur. N. cts/v-aj, av, G. cislyy.vro:, D. atlvavn, N A. V. BkHVXVTSf G. D. ocEivayTOiv. 3M. eU£v-avTSf, ayTa, G. a.-iva.yTWV, D. aEiyas-t, A. asly-avra, ccv, A. aslv-uvTCtg, cu/tx, V. af/yav. V. ct.uv-a.VTte, ayra. Sing. Dual. Plural. N. ClOO-YlV, IV, ft V.c 1.1. app-yoi, D. app'svi, A. app-£ya, iv, V. apps*. N. A. V. afym, G. D. CtfyiVOlV. N. app-sy.s^ sya, G. apptvuv, D. appso-i, A. vJ^-tvae, tvx, V. Upf-EVSC, syce. Sing. Dual. Plural. N. a*»j0-»j x c, £c, G, cc\ri9-£0c, ov<;, D. aX>j9-£i'-Et", A. aXrjS-Ea, rj, ej, V. »?iii9/ ff . N. A.V.aX»i9-/E, £, G. D. aX»?9-EOiy, oi"y. G. aX^S-EWV, «y, D. aXnf=eff, A. a.Ar)5-Eac,E7^5a,>7, V. aXijQ-EE^ t7gja, *». Sing. Eyyapiro?, E^ap-tra, iy sy^api. Sing. •ove, ouy, ^iVodClC ^ d'nrocL, 8l7T- oda, ovv, ovy, Mtc- OUf. ov. oi/y. Dual. N. A. V. E'J^apiTE G. D. £VX$pon, G. D. -7spo:, rarog. Adjectives in m to the Norn, Plur. Masc. as crvtywi, pocrrog. Tepvqff, 7c?7rnuv, rsfavta-rog. ^/Xo?, QtXluVj o-Toc 3 uxhtto;. Some of those also change the last syllable into o-o-uv, as j3M$, fixoo-uiv ; yXvxve, yXvcraay j ra^t;^ vacwv, &C. In ICTT-cZOg, 10" CCTOC. XclXog, XuXio-npog, Xa.Xka-70.ro g. Ixlyo:, oXiyio~Tspc, oXiyiO~70.7og. jBXal, (3\ccKlo-7!£og. ■^■vcivg, ^vjaio-ra,7cr J &C. Some are formed by the Attics in ctnspoc, curarog ; some by the Attics and Ionics in eote/joc, ETrarcj. ADNOUN. 49 ccyuQog, f/XjAWUV, a-psluy, ft shriii} v, ftsXrspog, xpucrauv, Kpcirluvj KOCOpUV, Xo'im, QzfTSfOC, ocpiarog. r @sXti Kpa,Tl<7TOS. }XmTTog. XuHTTOg. prccrog, pi worse, sirable, Xwlrspog; from itpdnpog, former, wporEpcrfrspos, &c. From IXoi^a-rog is formed Ixax^^onpog ; from I'tr^aTo?, t^X*' rmocToq; from kvSkttck;, ^v^icrrarog ', froUlTpu'TogyJirst, Kprnivroc, Comparisons are also made from Nouns. ctXyog, ocXyicov, ccXyicrrog. ficccnXzij-s, Ttpos, rarog. EToc7poc f IrocipoTXTog. ®eog, ©icvrspog. > nXsu nXeicrTog. a double comparison is found ; as from is formed xuporspog ; from Xuim, more de- Kzp^-og, kXikt-w, itrrog. liTTOiTOg. ttXeov kxrvig, vrXsoyEKriaTOirog. •xXyxr-wg, tcrrarog. fror-ng, icrccrog, p'iy-og, iuv, icrrog. vfipio-rrig, $£p, (pvpoTKTog. 50 GRAMMAR OP THE GREEK LANGUAGE. From a Pronoun : atJro?, ipse, avtorarog, ipsissitnus. From Adverbs : avai-TSjjof, rarog. narui, x. :.-a!-;<.0VTK, seventy. rpio-uvpiot, dytotmwitt, eighty. ninety, a hundred, two hundred, three hundred four hundred, five hundred. six hundred, seven hundred, eight hundred, nine hundred, a thousand two thousand, three thousand, four thousand. , five thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand. 30 thousand, &c. ADNOUN. 51 vo, rpU, and T£cr3-apf 50. 1%*K0VT0L, IfJ^' £'> 6*0. i$oy.-nKonc6, FfAA, o, 70. oySoviKovTK, Ja[AAA, or', SO. Ivwvkovtcc, JijAAAA, % 90. ExaTov, H, p', 100. etitzxocri'Ok, oa, a,, HH, cr , 200. Tpiccxoanoi, HHH, t , 300. Tscrcrccpccxocnoi, HHHH, v, 400. TTfVTaKocrtoi, ]3[, <£>', 500. iZoLKocrioi, E[H, p^', 600. cVraxocnoi, }5[HH, %|/ , 700. GKTOX.OC7101, MHHH, W, 800. ImoxoWtu, 13HHHH, 3, 900. X^oh X, a, 1000. h XX, £, 2000. KEVTGtX.lO'xfolOlj ]5[, £, 5000. juu'pto*, M, ,1, 10,000. Surpvpioi, MM, ,*, 20,000. myTuxHrpvpioi, Jm[, v, 50,000. OSKOt,K,l(T<[JWpK)l i ]m[]m[ p>100,000" To express the 9 units, the 9 tens, and the 9 hundreds, the Greeks used the letters of the alphabet. But as there are only 24, they used r, called sViVjj/aov, for 6 j J, called KQTcna,, for 90 ; and J), called o-av s-7, a tt covered with an inverted §f* for 900. A mark is placed over the letters to express the lower numbers. Placed under them, it expresses thousands ; thus e is 5, ,« is 5Q0O. In the Capitals, I, 1, is the mark of Unit 5 H,100,istheinitiaiofHexaTcv; n, 5, is the initial of ITeWe ; X,1000, Xfotot ; A, 10, Asxa ; M, 10,000, Mu'picu. Each of these may be repeated four times, nil, 4 j AAA, SO ; MM, 20,000, &c. IT inclosing a numerical letter multiplies it by 5 3 thus, ]Zf, 50, &c. From 10 to 20, the large numbers may be placed first or last,$£K«, Sso'o, oriw^jca, 12. From 20, the larger number is placed first, sUon &o, 22. From 30, the conjunction is inserted, tqkxkovtoi k fiftieth, sixtieth, seventieth, eightieth, ninetieth. 100th. 200th. 300tb. 1,000th. 2,000th. 10,000th. 20,000th. 30,000th, &e. Of the Ordinal numbers, all under 20, except second, seventh, and eighth, end in to?. From thence upwards all end in oo-to?. They use, however, 1st, %f*io<; and Trp&Tjpcj. 4. r=raprog and TsrpocTog. 7. s'i3^o/xoj and l^o^xrog. 8, 6os from pVyoc, ' shuddering.' Adjectives in — etnif. Vide ivog and uvo;. Adjectives in — sto; express commonly an origin or source, e. g. 6»i'pEio?, )$moe 9 (36ho<;, ivr-aof, &c. consisting of, or taken from ' geese,' r cat- tle,' horses,' e.g. Jtpsces 0^'csjov, ' game,' 'venison / x&Vpo? tvir'tfs, f horse-dung,' &c. So also adjectives derived from pro- per names, 'O/JLTifHOC, EvflTTlhiOC. Others express rather an agreement with, or resem- blance to, e. g. av^pjToc, yvvatx.s7oc, ' becoming a man/ ' a woman/ ' manly,' ' womanly or effeminate.' Instead of — ttdr$ the lonians said r{ioc, as avGpasrmo?, — °V^ apyu'pso?, — °^ Xtvsor, — oCj, f golden/ ' silver,' e linen.' Hence the substantive xa^axin, —y I} Xiqvtbv, — », ' the panther's or lion's hide.' Xtoveo? means rather f snow-white / 3 ' eatable,' * adapted to song,' ' warlike.' Others, however, express merely a quality, as ttsvQi- fxoe, SoKipoe, xaXTitjuo?, ' mournful,' e celebrated,' l beau- tiful.' Adjectives in — ivog and — ei*m signify, 1. a material of which any thing is made, e. g. y vivos, xuXtxpivo:, ntxiv^vog, &c. e made of earth, of reeds, of tiles 5' 2. a quality, which arises from the magnitude or quantity of the thing expressed by the derivation, 7rss express a quality chiefiy, as hnrspoe, vespertinus, i of or belonging to evening j' QccXoicro-ioc, ' marine j* fewor, * be- longing to the guest." If two adjectives are derived from one substantive, one in oc, and the other in *o?, the latter generally signifies a proneness, a tendency to any thing which the first expresses generally as a quality, e.g. xaQctpcc, e pure/ xa9ap*o;, ' loving purity.' Adjectives in — osig signify a fullness, e. g. ju>jt*o«?, ' full of prudent counsels, Adjectives in — 6\*$ express a quality, and are derived from verbs, as jw.au wAnc, fern, pctivohli, oiixa^, ' wasp-like,' QXoyuhc, ' like fire/ avJ^^e, ' manly.' In this sense these adjectives coincide with those in — o«5n'?, and probably are formed from them, as aorsgottoVs ovpavo? signifies also ' the starry heaven.' Adjectives in — «x their. cT©£, aWT>}, TOUTO, this. 6. Reciprocal, Ifxccrov, of myself. G-EavTotA, of thyself. say-row, of himself. 7. Indefinite, tk, r*, any. $s7vk, some one. PERSONAL PRONOUNS. Singular. Dual. Plural N. \yu, N. »)^s*v, G. Ijutou, or ju,au, N.A. vwi', yw, G. VtfJiUV, D. E/x-oij or jw-ot, G.D. vwi'y, y^y. D. w/aTv, A. EjUE, Or ]W.E. A. u'juaj." 53 GRAMMAR OP THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Singular. N. «4, G. <70V, D. ', i>, c®wy. Plural. N. £/ufiV, G. ifJLVV, D. i/x?y, A. £/xet?. N. G. &u, D.of, a. r. Singular. Dual. N.A. c-Qu), &>(, ffc, ov., Dt t r • u, ?> £> A. ov, r,i, o. Dual. N.A. u, a, u, G.D. oh, cch, oh. Plural. N. oi, at, a, uv, D. °hj> *ifj ° r >i> A. ov<;, }'_, o, was used for the third person ; yet it has the proper signification of a pronoun, and of the English, ' he, she, it,' only in the oblique cases : in the nominative it signifies not simply 'he,' but 'he himself,' ipse. If the article precedes 6 airog, Ji avri, to ©juto, it signifies c the same. ' INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN. Tk, n.T*, Gen. too;, &c. Here the accent is on the t, m the dissyllabic cases, and in the nominative it is acute ('). In the neuter the Poets say also tin for rl. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS. "Oh is declined like the article, to which tho enclitic h is annexed in all the cases only to give greater force. At™? and Uuvo; are declined like oq, % t o. Ovto,- prefixes r } like the article, thus : s INGULAR. N. OVTO,*, ai/Tt]^ tovto, G. toi'tov, Tai/TIK, XOVTOV, D. roura*, Tai/T»i f routti, A. TOVTOf, Dual. toDto. N A. TOUTCU, 1&VTCC, toJtw, G. D. rovroiy, T r,c, ov, Of these the last alone has a plural. G. lotvr-uvy D. o7$, otic,, o7<;, A. oC'c, a?, a. For osavTov we often find, by Crasis, o-xvrov ; and for laurouj otvTov. The latter is used by the Attics in the three Persons. INDEFINITE PRONOUNS. Dual. Singular. N. Ti?, Ti, G. TiVOC, D. Tin, A. TiVCC, Tl. c: and rU are often joined together j as or*?, who or whosoever. N. A. Tiv y c, G. D. ri'joh. Plural. N. TiVE£, rtva, G. TiVOJVj D. Tt<74, A. rtvac, T*»a. Sing. N. otic, %ric, on. Dr r r . WTiVi, »?TiV*. WTiV*. (> t r r j. imvo?, >irtvo?, awoj. A. ovma, nvrivx, on, &C. In the neuter o is often separated from rt, with or with- out a comma, to be distinguished from the conjunction or*. VERB. 61 o, 11, to 5e~v«, some one, is declined thus : N. Jetva, among the Poets hU- G. dstva, or oilvocroq, Or dEivo?. D. hxvoc i or Seivocn, or toi. A. &tV«. VERB. VOICES Verbs have three Voices : Active, Passive, and Middle. The Middle Voice is so called because it has a middle signification between the Active and the Passive. It im- plies neither action nor passion alone, but an action re- flected on the agent himself. It signifies what we do, 1. to ourselves ; 2. for ourselves. I. Thus 5TE, -WOl (v) TWTEiV TVTTTtOV, -OVO-tt,, -OV (Gen. -ovrog, -ova-rig, -ovrog &C.) TSTVQlt) as the present. TSTVtytVOLt TBTvQug, -vToc, -6g (G. -orog, -viccg, -orog, &C.) ! > -w, -vis, -ri -YITOV, -riTOV -UfJLSV, -V)TE, -WO"* (v) TV-^OCt 4/av (G. -avTog, -do-rig, &C.) as the present. TV7TUV TV<7rm f -ovcroc, -ov (G. TVKQVTQg, &C.) nt. wanting. TV-^SiV Tv'-^vv, -ovo-a, -ov wanting. TVTTsTv TWJtm, -ovcra, -ovv (G. -ovvrog, &C.) VERB. 67 Charac.Let. Third Conjugation. Pr.lF.Per. Pres. 1 Fut. Perf. T -»T£j -BO-I (v) T.W., tuVtwv, -ovo-a, -ov (Gen. -okto;, &c.) Imperf Sing. tTWTo», • I did strike -OK, -«, .,(„) DUal. -JTOV, -ETtJV Plur. -o/*»,"H- e> -0.(3) Perf. 1 Sing.TETw^a, 'I havestmck Dual. -OLTOVj -CCTOV Plur. -« m -«* h -£„ (,) as the present. as the present. as the present. Ttrutpyt, -ti7a, -05 -o'to;' &C.)' Plusql Sing. IrnvQat -.» -s. ; , -» (4) Dt;al. -»tov, -si™ Perf. 2 TsVmra as the perf. 1. in all the moods. PlusqS. •tituVsiv as in the plusquam perf. 1. Aor. 1. Sing. ".rv^a. Dual. -aTOVj -aTHV Plur. -XpW, -«TS, -O.V Sing, tu'+o. Dual. -CCTOV, -a,TW Plur. -an, -eSrwran -ajfisv, -aiTs, -esisv (6) -«, -ps, -p TV^. T U > 5j «'+««, «'- (G. -MT.S, -»W, &C.) Aor. 2. Sing. eWo» as the imperfectum. as the present. as the present. as the present. rwffi, (G.lWlWS,&C.) Fut. ]. Sing. tv'+b as the present. wanting. Tu'^oifu as the present. wanting. «>» tv-^uv, -ova-cc, -ov Fut. 2. Sing. tuto Dual.' -sr™, - t r™ Plur. -™>», -ffn, o»V. (») wanting. TWOIJU ^ wanting. TUlTi.V (G. -ouvto?, &C.) J- rivre, -oifxi, -V, '"*»> -uv. > TSTV> -wv. 6S GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Moods and Tenses. Indie. Imper. Opt. Subj. Inf. Part. Present rvicrta, Imperf. hvitrov, Perfect. rsrvQoc., Pluperf. IrervQeiv, 1st Aor. hv\a, 2d Aor. srvKov, ISt Flit. TV-^-U, 2d Fut. TU9T-S, Indicative Mood. Present, I strike. S. TUTTTCfl, Tl/Waft TUffTSi, D. TUTTTETOy, TVTTTETOy, P. TVTTTOjjLIV, TV TTTZTEf TVTTOVCt.. Imperfect, I was striking. S. ZTV7TT0V, 'irWTSS, ETV5FTE,. D. IruBTsroy,. iTVTrrET^y,, P. ETUTTTO/Jtsy,. ETt/TTTETE, ETUSTTOy. Perfect, 7 /*ai?e struck. S. tetvQx, rsrvQcx-s, rtTvtpz, D. TET^^arov, TETH^aroy, P. 7stv$u[azv, TSTv$a,T£, mutyeca-t. Pluperfect, I /jarf struck, S. iTSTU^sjy, ItetJ^ej^ Iteti/^ej, D. IrETy^EiToy, ItsrvtyuTYiv, P. ETErf'^EI^-fy, ETETU^EiTE, lTETl)^EtC-«y, First Aorist, I struck. D. Itv-^octqv, \rv-^a,TYjv, P. ETU^ajUEVp ETU^TE, STV-J^OiV. VERB. 69 Second Aorist, I struck. s. stvtov, twins, STVTTt, D. Iti/ttstov, ETUTTETflV P., ITV TTOfASV, ZTV 7T£T J, BTWOV. First Future, h shall strike. S. Tli\|/W, Tv\u<;, TImJ/EJ, D. Tl/\J/ETOV, TImJ/STOV, P. rv^opiv, Tu'-^m, Tv-tytoim.. Second Future, 1 shall strike,, s. ti/ttw, r virus, TWit, D. tvttzTtov, ti»9teTtov P. rv7rov(ji.tv, rvnuTS, Ty7T0VCTi, Imperative Mood. S. D, P. Present, strike. TV7TTST0Vf TUTTT ETE, TVTTTETW, TV7T7S7UV, TUTTTSTUCUV, Perfect, have struck. TtTvQsTQV, mvQttE, TiTvQsTU, First Aorist, strike. TV\|/GiTOV, ZV-^OLTE, TV-^ClTMj 7V-\>a.Tuaa,v , s. D» P. Second Aorist, strike. tvtte, TU7TETW, tvttetov, TU7rSTJ/£/ay, tu-vJ/eje, D. TvvJ/s/aTov, Tv^ttar-nVf P. Tv-^tla/y.iv, rv^uarty rv-^siav. rwzoic, TVTTOl, TU7ro?Toy, tvtvoTtw, tvttoTts, TV7ro7sv. VERB. 71 Subjunctive Mood. Present, / should strike. S. tvTTuij TyVrrf, tvVtvj, J). TvwnroVj tvktyitov, P. Tu'Trrajusv, rvKTviTs, rvicTwari. Perfect, 7 should have been striking. S. rnvQit)) tetJ(£*k, tetvQvi; D. tetvQyitov, rsrvtymov, P. TE.TV$U)(JI.SV, TETV^tJTE, r£TV$U0V~05. Second Future, going to strike. N. tukuiv, rwovtroc, TU7ro0v, G. Ti>7rouvro;, Tvxovans, TU7royvrof, PASSIVE VOICE. Moods and Tenses. Indie. Imper. Opt. Subj. Infin. Part. Pres. TvvTou.a.1, 1 , -o;^v?v, -a/xa;, -EG»?V, Tl/$9»lTi, -E**)V, -W, 2d Aor. irvvw, T\nr-v\Qi } IstFut. Tv(p9ria--o[j.oa } 'Oipviv, -EcrSat, -o/aewCj 2d Fut. TUTnjV-o/xat, -oi/jLYiv, -EcrQa,i, -o/u,e»o,-j P.p.Fut.TETu-^-o/xat, -ot'/zjjy, -fa-Sat, -o//.syo;. •»vai, To face p. 72. Present Imperf. Perfect, ctive. Sing. tu'ttI -0{U.O? at ) ft -VTUl Plur. -o/xEp^h -uvroti Infinitive. Participle. TV7rTE -fro* Plur. -jiJ 7 ^ -®o-t y7T>5O-0/xd n g' TVTTTO^Eyoj, -£V»7_, TETU(Z)9«i T£TV[A,[A,£yo$, -n, -OV rvVVr,vcci TV7TY)V0U TV fe S -iv. rvQ&no-so-Qui TVirr.crso-Qou TETU-vJ, 1 , omvoq OV. Synoptical View of the Passive Voice. To/actp. 72. Indicative. Imperative. Optative. Conjunctive. Infinitive, Participle. Presen Sing. TuVvo/xat, ' I am struck.' -opai, (-mi) ->,, -eteu Dual.-OjLtEGoV, -EO-8&V, -EtrSoV Plur. -ipdu, -eet9e, -rarai Sing. («,) ..„ -eVS^ Dual. - !0 -9o», -,V6«» Plur.-i.r8,, -iVk™, Sing, sip,,, -„„, -„„„ Dual. -oijisSov, -oitrScre, -o!o-8n» Plur. -oi>s9a, -ow8i, - 01 »to Sing, -o>i*a(, (-tiai) », -«rai Dual.-u f »i8o» ) -„r8oi, -ni8a, -«r8t, -euro Perfect. TETt/jU/Xat, -Uj/Ki, •lUTTOJi -t/fxp.E0OS, -U$0£, -VjJ.[XEVOt tlvi Sing, -ju«(, -o-«(, -Tat Dual. -/xEeovHC-^M-M-rM Plur. -^-^(-^e) -, T «i tiVu+o, Tiru'lpSs te'ti/$9e, TETu'tpQwcrav) Sing. -<™. -8» (-rf u ) -8ov (-rfov) -9»» (-E7M . -8s (-o-8e) -9o (-treatra,) Sri,, il'w, ,h TETUjU^Eyw, -a, -w TETU^/XEyw, -a, -U r£Tu'?9ai Plus- quara pert. £T5TVjLtp.t]y J -U^O, -U7TTO -Vfifj,s9ov f -i^Soy, -uV0»jv -vpfAtQu, -vfflt, rsTV(j,fj.zvoi v>as the present. wanting. ™nwoi/Mv > as the present. titvMw J wanting. rUpSnWfcu Tun-»!(rf, ItITvQk/VV, P. iTiTVfj.fj.i9a,, tTiTvtyQe, TiTV fj.fxiva riaccr. First Aorist, I was struck. s. ltv, ETU00JJ?, IrvQQri, D. tTvtyQriTov, iTvtpQyirr.y, P. ETl^Stt/AEJ'j ItvQQkTS, irvQQriO-av. Second Aorist, Z was j truck. S. ETtiTrnv, ETVTnjf, tTvxn, D. ETtTrnToy, \TV7tr\TV\V , P. ETOTT^E?, ETWUTfj IrvTrr^oiv. First Future, I shall be struck. S. rv$Qr,g-ofjiMi , TU$0n'or»i, TV$Qr,(r?Ta.i, D. Tf^9»)crojuis0ov, Tu!p9ti<7£cr9o)/, TU^SwwQo*, P. Ti/£0?iicrOjU.=9ov, TUTTJiiTjcrSoy, TUTrnVso-Sov, P. Ti/7T>jc70jU;£a, rwrKreo-Qs, TWrr.G-OVTCCl. Pauio-post-Future, I am on the point of being struck. S. TirV-lsOfAOCl, TETU'4/*?., T£Tt/\J/STai, D. T£Tu4-0/XsSoV, TSTU^EcOoy, T£tJ\J,SO-9ov, P. 717V-\>6^0C, mV-^ZO-QE, 7Z7V-^0V70U. Imperative Mood. Present, be struck. s. D. P. riiffTov, rwttEvQu, TUTTTecrSf, TurriVSwcra) Perfect, have been struck. S. D. P. First Aorist, be struck. S. D. P. 7V$Q*lTOV, 7v(pr]^7U!V } Second Aorist, be struck. S. 7V7rr,9i, 7VRY[7U, D. 7V7VYi70)l, 7V7TYI7Uy 3 P. Ti/TrrTj, 7W7rw7uara.9. Optative Mood. Present, I may be struck. h. TfTTTOi^VJV, T'J7TTOiO, 7V7T70k70, D. TUTTWjUeSoV, Tl/TTTOIO-Goi', TUTZTOiC'Gttl', P. TUTTOi/XfQa, Tl/TTTOiO-S?, tJtTTOIVTO. * For Tv(p9r,9i, two successive syllables of which would begin with an aspirate. VERB. 75 Perfect, / may have been struck, S. rnvjj.iJi.zvoi; «*jv, eV*jj, uri, D. TEry/u-juEvw, E*7rroy, tlwTnv, P. TfTfjot/xEyot tinfxtv, tlnrt, iirio-xv*. First Aorist, J may toe feeera struck. S, TU$9ei»jy, Tf 9s*>5TE, 1V^lir\(T0(.V. Second Aorist, 1 may have been struck. S. rvirslnv, ww tins, rvvsin, D. TVWEirjToy, TyTTEHfngv, TWiirilAiV, TUTTEiJlTE, TVTTtlviffOlV . P First Future, J may Z>e struck hereafter. S. TU^QnGrOijOlHV, ?V§QriS>9cro*|w.E9ov, Ty$9»jVo*0-0oy, rvtpQrxroia-Qriv, P. TvfyQricroifji.sQct, *ry<£>9jia-ot<70s, TV$Qrij?y, P. TETy-vJ'ofyl^a, TETy^OKrSf, TEry-^o'yTo. Subjunctive Mood. Present, I should be struck. S. ryVrw/xat, tuVt»?, TyVr»iTa*, D. TyTrTw/usSoy, Ty'wT»jo"9oy, TvitrrKrQov f P. ruTeTUjxsQix, , tvxtvktQe, rvwruvrcu. * The more common form is the Attic contraction dr.ov, iljww 5 tJ^tfy, sir*, eIex, 76 GRAMMAR OP THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Perfect, 7 might have been struck. S. TETU/X/AHVO; J, jjC, y, First Aorist, I should have been struck. S. tvQQu, rvQQyc, rv(p9v, IX rutpQr)Toy, Ti»#9>?Toy, P. Tt^a/xEy, TU@0iire, ti/$§o;g-*. Second Aorist, I should have been struck. S. TW7TV, TU5T*Tj, TU7TT7, IX TU7rr5Toy, Tfcnrroy, P. T^7ro;jLl£V, TU7T»iTf, IVTruTl. Infinitive Mood. Present, rvvrs9«, -at*, -a»To Sing. -ai, -acf9u Dual. -Kffflov, -ao-9i»» Plur. -«o-6e, -i.a§uvm Sing. -a.Vw, -aio, -*.to Dual. -aifiAm.-auim, -«.V9w Sing. -up»i, (-tio-ai, -noti) -b, -iiTai Dual. -upiOw, -ikt9o», -tijv Ti/'+BffSai ™^i»s ( Aor. 2. it proceeds exactly like the imperf. pass. ™°\-™, 4) as in the present of the passive. r^ — Fut. 1, — &c. like the pres- pass. wanting. as the opt. pres. pass. wanting. T u+ W e«. Tu4«/,, -?( t r) -et™ Dlial.-ov>s8t,», -tVo-6o», -ritrSov Plur. -oujutfla, -£7(t9£, -oyirai wanting. Dual, -oijitfcw, -37 thus, E7TW, Ipwv'^w, E». so is changed into ew, as lopTolfy, lupTctfyv. Verbs compounded with Prepositions take the Augment between the Preposition and the Verb, as npo£W«. £ is doubled after a Vowel, as ha,$m. Many Verbs have no Augment 5 namely, those begin- ning with Vowels or Diphthongs not mentioned in the rule j many beginning in oi, particularly those compound- ed with oia.%, olos, oZkos, oho? and o"uvo$; also those in «w, odd), a,Y>ol£p[AOCl, CCY)Qs, as Xzlfiw, XtiPvw or Xu-^u ; XsI'ttv, Xiiitcsa or Xu\w } Xtyu, Xsycru) or xi\u ; tIu, ri. Some make epOVEW, %Wf E W . AsW makeS ^'(TW, SzSekci. KaXsw makes xaXEcr*;, JtsxaX^xa, by Syncope xsxXwa. The following make the First Future in euo-w : Sew, ttXe'w, smw, vew, pfw, %ew. Ka/w and kXocIu) make aucw. 3. Verbs Primitive in ow ; apow, /Sow, ivew, o/xow, oyow ; and Verbs, which form others in ww and o-xw. Four Verbs change the Soft of the first syllable into an Aspirate breathing : e%w, e|w 5 t^'%w, $pef« ; TpE^w, 3ps^w ; TU<£w, SJ-vJ/W. The Present of these Verbs should begin with an Aspi- rate, thus e^w, Sps'^w, Sps^w, $J$» -, but as the Greeks sel- changing into si, as scribo, scrih.si ; dico, dicsi or dixi ; Jigo, figsi or fixi; demo, demsi; carpo, carpsi, &c. To avoid harshness a letter is frequently left out, as parco, parti ; ludo, lusi, &c. The s too is frequently omitted ; and sometimes in that case it is re- sumed in the Supine, as scando, scandi t scansum ; verto, verti, versum, &c. VERB — FORMATION OF TENSES. 83 dom suffer two aspirated syllables to come together, the first is changed into a soft. That reason ceases to operate in the Future, which ends in |w, and therefore resumes the Aspirate in the first syllable. This is proved by the Perfect, which in the Active is rerpe^», and not rsflpe^a, but in the Passive TsQpa^px*. For the same reason %i| makes Tpt^os m the G. — But no change is produced by the pass, termination Qr>v, except in eteG^v, Itu'Shv; or by 6s, hv 5 or if a consonant intervenes, as $eV0e, $«$9h'$. The First Aorist is formed from the First Future, by prefixing the Aug- ment, and changing u into a, as tv\u, 'kv\et. A doubtful Vowel in the penultima of the First Aorist of the Fourth Conjugation is made long, at is changed into v, and e into a, as xpivw, ExpZva 5 -^ixa, E, aXsi/w, •op the c of the Future : *)JCEi«, XEW, EXSiO, •nkeva,, CTEl/w, e (revet I'jtrja, ^B*J E^fa. The Perfect is formed from the First Future, by prefixing the Conti- nued Augment, and changing, in the 1st Conjugation, -^w into d?ot, as tv^u, rirvtyot ; in the 2nd, |w into x«, as Xs'|;w, >h.ex* ; in the 3d, o-w into xa, as t*Vw, riVix^ j in the 4th, £ into xa, as 4,a\5, E^aXxa. Verbs in /xw are formed from ju-ew, as ve'/aw, vsvspjxa, from SE/LCSW, VEjUtVj'cTW. Dissyllables in Xw, vw, pw change the e of the First Future into a, as into a, as< I T$wyu), srpayoy ' } ay J \.7Ta,Vlt)j S7TCC0V ' f et into *, as Xd'TTV, iXiXoi ; EV into u, as Qzvyw, ttyvyoi. the nx*Ww, to strike the body, makes tntoyov -, to strike mind, sVXayoy. In Dissyllables, however, which take the Temporal Augment, the penultima necessarily remains long, as ay*, tjyoy. So also where the penultima is long by position, as -&ntX7ra», \^oc\7rov j [xf7rru , £jj.apvTov. But in many of these a transposition takes place to preserve the analogy : thus vepflw makes in poetry sVp«0ov, &'pxw, etyaxov, &c. A resolu- tion and a reduplication produce the same effect : thus %oov is made 'iotSov ; nyov, wyctyov, &c. In Dissyllables of the Fourth Conjugation, s and a are changed into a, as $epu, E$apov; (rwupu, IWapoy*. — This also takes place in some words beginning with a Mute and a Liquid, as 7rAsxa>, ETrXajcov , jcXsVtw, skXolttov; SO o-rpE^w, scrrpa- , 'i-^aXov. Some Mutes are changed into others of the same order ; thus, '/3Xa.7nra', s(3Xoi(3ov t t into /5, aS< KOCXVTTTU), tKolXvfiov V. XpUTTTW, sxpv(3ov, rityov, J (BoiTCTU, sftoctpov, J SoCICTd}, irutpov, it into Q, aS-^ piXTTTW, £ppotCpo», into ov, as uvkoIu, sfj.vx.ov ; ivpsa), st/pov. The following have no Second Aorist : Polysyllables in f« and crcrw ; Verbs in aw and ew after a Vowel 5 Verbs in ow ; Polysyllables in awa, uy«, avw, suw, ovw, vu„ viv, ancj many others. "Hkoov from axou'0 is poetical. The Second Future is formed from the Second Aorist, by dropping the Aug- ment, and .changing ov into u circumflexed, as Wvirov, rvnu. Passive Voice. The Present is formed from the Present Active, by changing u into ojw«{, as rvTcr-u), rvirr-ofjiou. The formation of the second person Sing, was originally in io-ai, thus TV7CTOJJ.IXI, Eo-at, ETca. The Ionians dropped the u. The same observation applies to other tenses. Thus in the Imperfect eti/Vtectp became ItuVteo, and was afterwards contracted into Itu'tttou. So rwicrbiao became Ti/Vroio ; Itv'-^ckto, Itv^oco and Irv-^u. Some verbs retain the original form, thus Qdyopai makes , xeXevu, KXeltti, jcpot/w, ira.iw, Krala, creiti}. Some, whose penultima is short, change x.a. into y.ca, apoti), sAaw, oew, &vw, Xvu, TTTaw. The Perfect of most Verbs in atw, atvw, auw, ?*&>, ei/w, qw, ovu, u, originally ended in jao», which was afterwards changed into a- pea. Hence we find KiXevpoa and xixewpoa, ywroc; and yvwo-Tos, &c. Some Verbs shorten the long syllable of the Perfect Ac- tive 1 as ¥e$ukoi, SeSopui. — On the same principle ev is changed into v 5 thus xe^eux«, xe'x vcr l J - ai an( ^ ^x v H Ml '•> *** tytvX a > '7re?y, and the preceding Soft into an Aspirate Mute, as rervvrai, Three Verbs assume iTai, gupE0»jy ', Isnsvr/Tow, E7rv)yE0>?v ; te0e*- roa, ete'S^v. In the Third Person Plural of the Aorists a syncope often takes place j thus *)y£p0Ev for vy^vcrocv, Uoi^nQty for EJtbo"jl/.19U?JO"«V. The First Future is formed from the First Aorist, by dropping the Augment, and changing v into aropou, as irv$&w 9 Tu^O^Vojixat. The Second Aorist is formed from the Second Aorist Active, by changing o* into »5v, as Itvttov, Irvvrw. No second Aorist passive occurs in <3W, Ouv, m* j or from Verbs in u pure, except fxaov, l^v, Ipp'u'wy, ?v>iy. VERB — FORMATION OF TENSES. 89 The Tragic Poets preferred the forms of the 1st Aorist ; the writers of the new Comedy were more attached to the smoother forms of the 2d Aorist. The Second Future is formed from the Second Aorist, by dropping the Aug- ment, and changing •» into o-opat, as hvirnv, twrrvaopcu. Middle Voice. The Present and Imperfect are the same as those of the Passive. The Perfect is formed from the 2d Aor. Active, by prefixing the Redu- plication, and changing ov into a, as srv7rov } tirvrra. — Hence those Verbs, which want the 2d Aor. Active, have no Perfect Middle. In Dissyllables, if the Second Aorist has « in the penul- tima, from a Present in s or «, the Perfect Middle changes it into o, as kxUu, tvXamov, ttew-Xox*. But from the Present in rt OI' a», into n, as X*i0w, sXaQov, XeXtQcz. — ®a,XXw, zQctXor makes rsQwAa j aud kXol^w, 'ly.Xa.yov, xsKXviya,. If the Second Aorist has e in the penultima, the Perfect Middle ehanges it into o, as tXsyov, xixoya,. If the Second Aorist has » in the penultima, from a Pre- sent in «, the Perfect Middle changes it into o*, as A, t'^ov, otda. Some retain also the diphthong of the Present : thus Qtvyu, irityivya. and wetyvyci, Etxw makes soixa, Witu eoXtco,, 'ipyw Eopya. \A makes ^'Wa, to avoid the frequent repetition of 5 in the regular SsSoiSu ; so 9teVoju.$« for i&itoym& ; Xay^dvu makes xixoyxa. The Perf. Act. and Mid. of the same Verb are seldom both in use. Indeed the Mid. may be considered as another 1 3 90 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. form of the Act. as it has generally the same sense, and as it sometimes assumes the termination of both, as xXsVrw, kUXoQcc, and XE>cXo7r«. The Pluperfect is formed from the Perfect, by prefixing e, and changing a into «v, as rsrvza, STerViruv. When the Perfect Middle has the signification of the Present, the Pluperfect has that of the Imperfect. The First Aorist is formed from the First Aorist Active, by adding pjy, as The First Future is formed from the First Future Active, by changing a into In the 4th Conjugation it is circumflexed as in the Ac- tive : thus -\scckw, ^aX-ovjj.ai : i. e. \J/aX= > 8 < ***** j— /> ■ . •s,«!a •v »«• '£*"? *8 '5 '•"'a'* ^vSno" *" j? «r ««* •» «r v O Vo, N *-8 vE v 8 3 § 'S-'S 'S u» •* IU* cji ^ ^ »» 8 £ j^ -8 ^ 4 j r- /N — -\ »> •v »\ v 3 «£ ^ 3 v 8 v 3 8 3 hb * ~ * J? *£ £ 8 Si ^i-£ s i CQ v 8 ^w ^o •* «s "> 1 Zi a » s 8 3 § 3 •> »* »\ 23 *3 <3 5 f? 3 3 3" § s 8 3. •< *< It ^"^f P ©-«5lS CONTRACTED VERBS, 93 a b.! ^8v£ £ C £ J3 5 o 8 2 v 3 v2 v§ <3>. V 8 s£ s r «\ « JJ VA Ul *a-3 '3 J3 w > H »-» W S3 3-3 £ 94 GRAMMAR OP THE GREEK LANGUAGE. o > Sri ft ft ft < AKDeORJ) *-3 -i H ©-^o CONTRACTED VERBS. 95 8 b i Ov 3.«< r< 96 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. VERBS in MI. The most striking difference between Verbs in MI and Verbs in Q is in the 1st and 3d person Sing. Pres. Indie, and the 2d person Sing. Imperative. Verbs in p are formed from Verbs of the Third Conju- gation in aw, zu, ou, and vu. 1. By prefixing the Reduplication with *. — If the Verb begins with a Vowel, with nr or a-r, I aspirate only is pre- fixed, as ew, *n/xt ; Trraw, Wrv^^ &c. : this is called the Im- proper Reduplication. — The Reduplication takes place in the Present and Imperfect only. 2. By changing a into jm. 3. By lengthening the penultima. Thus from a-rdu is formed iVrrj/xt ; from 0£a>, t*9ij/a* j from doia, diSujju j frOm dUKVVdl, OBlKVVfAi, Verbs in p have only three tenses of that form : the Present, Imperfect, and Second Aorist. They take the other Tenses from Verbs in u; thus ^'^p makes $up j oysw, oy»jp ; opaw, optip ; VERBS in fU. 97 1 Aor. 2d Aor ACTIVE VOICE. Moods and Tenses, Ind. Imper. Opt. Subj. Inf. Part. f'icTT-vifAi, -a9t, -atrjy, -W, -a'yat, -a?, Presents 1 TJ0-HJUI, -ETt, 1 did-Wp, -O0t, -Etrjy, -ot?iy, -5,. -EVat, -QVOU, Lc£JXy-UjUt, -l/0», -UVat, -»>. Imper. Perfect < I" Plup. the rest like the Present. C icrrocK-u, klK-CC, W-a, ETTaJCElV. I E0»?xa, j Eowxa, "6» -E, -s, ETE0E?, «» CtTOV, C6TVV, apzv, CCTB, CU70CV, ET«f-*}V, rjc, »»J iT0V } BTYIV, EjUEy, BTi, tarocv, \oit-m, uc, 15-lx.v-vv, vc, OTOV, VTOV, CTYIV, v'tw, C^BV, vpzv, OTB, VTB, ocrocv, vactv. Second Aorist. scrr-ijVj -fic y Mj rnov, r.Tnv, YiptV, nTt, ris-xt §, %§-w s *<;, «, BTOV, ZTfiV, E[*fV, ITS, BCOCV, E^-U>V, WC, M, OTOV, CTYIV. opev } OTB, oaccv. * From earn/xi. f The Third Person Plural in the Present is the same as the Dative Plural Participle of the same tense. By the Attics it is commonly terminated in au/jt,i and »5Tf, »5eray,, * The Poets retain the long vowel, as iW»9/, riQr>ri. The syl- lable 61 is frequently rejected, as lara. or JVty), t ( '9v), &c. f The Second Aorist Imperative ends in 0», except Ge*, Sor, if, 1* ffwty, «r. J Dissyllables in v/a.i have a 2d Aor. Imper. as *\v8t. 100 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Subjunctive Mood. Present. Sing. Dual. Plur. l(T7~u> 3 ag, tlQ-ui *, rig, cto-uij, vg, oc, ax or, our oi} Tjroy, r,rov, UlOVy WTOV, Z^fv, art, u>[M, art, wcrt, W(7t. Second Aorist. Sing. Dual. Plur. 6S, Qyg, ou t atcg, O-TV, PTYITOV, tTTYiTOt, QrJTOV, 0T5TOV, OUTOVf OVTQV, arruptv Q(t>(ASV } , CTflTf, Qrirs, (TTUCTl, owo~i. Infinitive Mood. Present. l&TMOU. tiQevou. ot,oovcu. Stixvvvat. Second Aorist. (TTrivai. SeTvcu. Sovvcu ' Participles. ' Present. Second Aorist t&T-OCg, CMTOty TiQ-Eig, slcra, dia-ovg, ovtra, Stw-vg, vera. av. CTocg, it. §*}g, 6v. ooijg, vv. oovcra, crray GOV. The Infin. Pres. has always the short vowel j the 2d Aor. a long vowel or diphthong — » instead of a, s7 instead of f, and ov instead of o. * Ionic tj9!« ; Poetically tiSe/m. So also the 2d Aorist. verbs in p. 101 PASSIVE VOICE. Present Imp. Ind. Moods and Tenses. Imp. Opt. Subj. Inf. Part. ofxui, -ocro, -o*ju,»jv, •ufAOU, -ocfaj, /*"j'cr-Ojwai, V^dEi^O^'cr-Ojotaj. f icrracr-oji/,at, F.< TE0£*Ta*. Imperfect. Sing. Dual. Plur. to, jutOoy, o*9oy, crQyjy, |UE0a, <70r, it©. Imperative Mood. Present. Sing. Dual. Plur. t, <70»jv, jus0a, o-0e, uto. * In this Person in the Passive and Middle Voices the Ionic dialect drops the JCC[Ji,r)V, C7T«(7-ai ,~\ idWa/xw, dw>c-Oft, j ' I 3W-o/xatj .... I , j dW-ojuat, .... f r > \.$u%-oum, .... J ccifj.rtv } WfjMi, outvoU) ctptyos. opwos. 104 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Indicative Mood, Second Aorist. Sing. Dual. Plur. fxrtv, i&- J .-* Imperative Mood. Second Aorist. Sing. Dual. Plur. Optative Mood. Second Aorist. Sing. Dual. Plur. U'J, jUEOa, ffQf, VTO. a-Tca-^ $«- [ pw, o t to, /xeSov, aQov, , wTat, vjjleQov, uaQov, ua-Qov, vfjuQcx,, wa9s, uvtou. * This and the following Mood in the 2d Aorist of *' are derived u^), to be ; and elfu and U^, to go. II. From Iw are derived Inpi, to send ; vpcu, to sit ; and ufjicci, to clothe oneself. III. Ke7juat, to lie down j 'Icrvpi, to know ; , TJTE, Pluperfect*. ri1V, SCOiO, zcroiTo, D. icroifxsQov, sctohtQov, IcroicrQw, P. lo-oifjiiQa., eo-oktQs, ECTOiPTO. s. D. P. Subjunctive Mood. Present and Imperfect. nrov t WCTi. Infinitive Mood. Present and Imperfect. SIVCCi. Future. -oc, Participles. Present. ovcrcc, ovcrnc, * Used also for the third person singular in the sense of Utu, let it be, be it so. 108 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Future. N. lo-ofJiEvos, la-ofxsvn, Icrop'vov, G. Ic-ojus'voy, la-ofxsvvic, IVo/a '-V0V. 2. Elp, to go. Indicative Mood. Present *. Sing. • Dual. Plural. elfxty Ei$ or eT, ila-h, J rroy, Stop, | i/AEv,m,src7^iVi,or*, in a Plup. form, are also found in the sense of the Imperfect. irregular verbs in /**, 10$ Subjunctive Mood. Second Aorist. Sing, Dual. Plural. IV, itt?> M, iWoV, i»TGV, J ittUEV, i'^Tf, fWi. Infinitive. Participle. Present, Second Aorist. Umi or i'yat. i^v., loy, ov. Class II. 1. "IvifM, to send *. Indicative Mood. Present. Infju, ins, *Wh "stov, "trov, U[jl?v, lire, UXcri. * This Verb, formed like r/fln^i, has few irregularities. IRREGULAR VERBS IN p. Ill Imperfect. " Sing. Dual. Plur. \»i m$t . m } Utov, Utviv, 'U[ASV, 4ET£, 'll I */*■"* ETF,.EO-av*. First Future. *j-W* ns, vi, riTov, rirriv, ' npiv, nre, 'fiaccv, * The Attics have it/*™, sTtj, thav. 31$ GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE- First Future. a Subjunctive Moot). Present. Sing, Dual. Plur. lZ, **»|, iri, j Intoi) triiov, J tups*, Itjtj^ iScri; Perfect. Second Aorist. 7/TOV, *iTOy, WfAEV, *5T!j Wjf*, Infinitive Mood. Present. Perfect, Second Aorist. First Future, tlvcct. n wrQt, wtou. Imperfect. vi(xr,v } wo, wo, J r^i^otfYiT^^W^h | Yipzbx, *,?y, | dp&K, acrSf, avro. Participles. Present and Perfect. First Aorist. fi/xsvoj. loW/xsyo?. * This Verb may be considered as Middle. The Active is «•> or !>y«//c*i, forming «TO. First Future. xnV-0/xa^ i\, stul, j ofAcQov, ecrGoy, eo~Qov, j ojueGo, ectSe., oytki. Imperative Mood. Present. Kilao, HEicrGw, ks?o-0ov, XEtt70wv, xs7ct0e, ki'ktQu&olv, Optative Mood. Present. Xlol-^fiY, Of TO) | JU.e9oVj Indicative Mood* Present. ifrfrpM, foil) VUlt | jixsGoy, o-Soy, o-9o», | ptQtti cr§^ yf&4» Imperfect. lctt is seldom used; but'E*/ffttf i w«i often occurs^ IIS GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE, 3. $«|Ut, to say. Indicative Mood*. Present. Sing. Dual. Plur. (piop), Qric, tyricr), j ^xtov, QaTov, j QoLplv, ^ccte^ Qoiat. Imperfect. f$-^y> *)?, rjj ccrcv, arnv, \ aptVy , fyyq, [AEV, (pilTf, $WG-t. * In the Present and Imperfect the is frequently dropped by Homer and the Attic writers j thus *>/«.*, %s, wt, m, r>t, f>. IRREGULAR VERBS IN (U 1 V Infinitive Mood , Present. First Aorist. Second Aorist. Qoivat. Participles. (Pnvcci. Present. First Aorist. First Future. ac, tpdrra,, (pocv. j 0*i f Sing. — — f. f — ?4. I D. wanting. -— rov. TOK. lFU«pa, ^— rs, .— *• 0"t. V f*S. fJLOCl. -*— ceci. •>— TXi. 1 D. — peOov, — o-Qov. — o-Qov, £ tPl.— peQ*. I Historical Tenses. w vrat. 1st Per. 2nd Per. 3rd Per. 6 rSing. — — «■ f« — s. Zj 1 D. wanting. s — rov.. — s TW, < 1 P. — ft*. T£. — ~ "f rS. *-** pyv. ere- GO. rr TO. '1 « 1 D. — jueOov. * — , in the Perf. t ; in Verbs in (m it is i\J/o/xcu, "kixrtOoc, which borrows its Tenses, beyond the Present and Imperfect, from the obsolete Verb Xn'&y • or from Verbs of the same signification, though of a different original, whose Present and Imperfect, are likewise obsolete; as, e'pxo/asji, Ixsva-opcci, TjXuGst, which borrows its Tenses, beyond the Present and Imperfect, from the obsolete Verb IxivQu j or from Verbs which, though otherwise perfect, commonly use irregular or dialectical forms in some of their Tenses j as, ayvv^.i t 1 Fut. Att. 2«|j», 1 Aor. wsfa, 2 Aor. f'ayoy, &c. from a,yu. There are also some Verbs which, though they form several of their Tenses regularly beyond the Present and Imperfect, yet borrow others from other Verbs of the same signification, though of a different original, and many of them obsolete; as, aipsu, uipncra, ripvKtx,, which from the obsolete Verb eXw borrows l\Z, tfiin, iiX6ixr,Vy hXcifxw, &C. DEPONENT VERBS. To the class of Middle Verbs are sometimes referred those, called by some Grammarians, Deponents. They have the Middle form, except in the Perfect, Pluperfect, and Paulo-post-Future, of which the form is Passive. Their Perfect has sometimes both an Active and a Passive sense, as «pyacr/A«t from Ipyafo/za*. Some of these Verbs have, besides a Middle, a Passive 1st Aorist and 1st Future, the signification of which is Passive. In the other Tenses, a Middle sense may generally be traced. Perhaps it would be more analogical to consider them as Defective Verbs, whose Active is obsolete, and which want some of the Passive and Middle Tenses. The follow- ing is a synopsis of their form : M 122 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Indie. Iraper. Opt. Subj. Infin. Part. \zy^-ov y -oifxriv, -Wjixat, -jeSca, -o^uyoj. Present Imperf. Perfect Pluperf. }, > dsdi-to. T ,r -r -yyxt, -yurvo?. Idsyoy-W, osoeyuoct, P. p. Flit, ^sas^-o^xt, -oljxr,v, -seQxiy -oyLVJOc. IstAor.M Ah^oi-ur,v, I'-Z-xi, •CLip.vp, -k/xai, -xcrQtxi, -x(j.sw. IstFuLM.^Ef-o/uat, -oijAW, -E-EUw, -a, -hx\, -els; IstFut.P, ^E^SrjV-c/zaJ, -olpriVj -tcrQou, -ojusvo;, A few of these Verbs have a 2d Aorist Middle, as irt/v9a»cx- DEFECTIVE VERBS. Defective Verbs want some of their Tenses. These several kinds following are scarcely ever used beyond the Present and Imperfect; viz. 1. Such as signify Likeness or Desire. 2. Poetic Verbs in xix. 3. Verbs derived from the Future of their Primitives. 4. Verbs in tu«. 5. Some Verbs having two Consonants before u. G. Reduplicate Verbs have a Liquid before a. 7. Verbs ending in AJ.u and vXKv. 8. Frequentat. Verbs in a£a> and »£w, when they have the same signification with their Primitives, and Poetic- Verbs in «w derived from other Verbs gradually 5 as, hx^oiu, to retain, from Xa-y^, and that from \ya. 9. Poetic Verbs in xOu, e9«, vQu 9 o-Qv, x§w, xo>, jy-ui. 10. Poetic Verbs in afy, fy, or , to desire to reign. Ma9>ma», to desire to learn. Ma^«'ii, to desire to fight. 2 YLifdiu), to mingle or mix. ?.Kt$oclu, to disperse. A»Aaio/xai, to desire or covet, 3 Bfutrslu, to desire to eat. 'OvJ/Eiw, to desire to see. 4 'AXv/w, to be vexed in mind. 'Ayvtu, to accompany one. 'OTUiw, to be married, &c. 5 '?Efx€u, to lead in a circle. *sp£«, to feed or nourish. MsX&v, to seethe or boil. "EX&w, to desire. 6 Mxpfxcdpu, to glitter. ITaju<,$afrw, to shine. Ba/A&Jvw, to stammer. KcLfxattpu, to brandish. MopjULvpu, to murmur. Aap^asrrw, to tear. 7 Asv^'xxw, to wink. B$v\\u, to abhor. 8 Tpo^afw, to run often. ITpoxaXifw, to provoke. 'Artifa to seek or ask. 'lo-xayccw, to retain. AhkcmoLoiaxi, to receive. 9 'ApwaQu, to help. A, to burn. OSivv'Ow, to corrupt. "EcrSw, to eat. 'Eps^Ow, to cut, to shake. 3 OxUu, to destroy. 'EpvKuxu, to restrain. TsXcjAca, to be. K<\oixa,i, to exhort. TiTfxu, to find, &c. 10 'AAuo-xa£w, to avoid. Apacntc&^w, to fly, &C 'EXxyr«fw, to draw. Ep?rufa£a>, to creep. Tpowax^w, to turn, &c. BiSacrQw, to gO. 11 "A&, to lead. 'Oierv, to bring. "Opcoj, to stir up. IleQpUu, to shake or shiver. 'Epp'/yw, to be cold. 'EypnyopoJ, to Watch. 12 Ms/x^Xojwa;, to take care. "Eypojua*, to be roused. K£xXo ( aa*, to advise. "Eo-TrofMCu, to follow. 'EviWw, to say, to scold. IMPERSONAL VERBS. Impersonal Verbs are such as have only the third Person Singular of each Tense, and in Participles only the Neuter Gender. They have generally the sign it before them in English j as, 1'24 GRAMMAR OF THE GKEEK LANGUAGE. AsY, it behoveth ; Imperf. Un ; 1 Aor. \$en$-a.t i it has been known ; wus-cci, it has been heard ; 'Kilm:Ev crursXXw, or $ m the last syllable, as fyUv) from vstppiKcc,. ^a-x^ from ^i'^^a, ypa^ from ysyp&tpbc. 2. Perfect Passive. First Person, distinguished by M, and ending in pet, 7Toivi[Jt.JJU.ai, /w,>7, juvfl'jun from {j^fxwifxcci, p3j, \^aXjix,o$ from Ev^aX^ai, juwy, (Ainpuv from ^(jLvrifxai j Second Person, distinguished by 2, and ending in crux, Oyo-t > M 3 126 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE, Third Person, distinguished by T, and ending in TYIp, TVIS, SoTYlf, XOimric, fypioc, rtyiav', XvrYipioc, troTYiptov, tor, rtxoc, cug-Qyitgc, aKovtTTtxor, i r rpa, rpov, paxrcx, KccT07zrpov, rvp) ■A0G-' [ j.ri , 7wp ) T£0<-, tlX, TBOVj ypaTTTSOr, ypaTTTiX, yfaTTTSCV. 3. Perfect Middle, terminating in a, ae, eve, n, r,e, tc, 05, as and and oi j as IvTavOa, ivwroc^ov, in every as ovpavoQs and oupavo- J/i beyond. aTag, enough. «y«v, greatly. txdxa, very much. xiav, greatly. cx^ov, almost. poytc, scarcely. ptXts'g hardly. erw, \S0, Or J so that. 3. Quantity, Quality, Manner, &c. }w ell. fc'TWC, El), xax.%, ill. QxvXug, badly eto^, in vain. •$«$, rashly. orws^jj, hastily, ^xa, gently. svsc«> l for the ^apjv, J sake of. arf, whereas. e^v, be it so. opSSf, rightly. aXr)9&!j, truly, feesj verily. -craAtv, J " °' ra%fw?, quickly. • , ■■ > > on iv. WTTTSp, J jUOVOy, J wis, thus, so, here. «W2c, not at all. 1 to no p»Tnyj J purpose. ,' j > bravely. icr^wpw?, J * bpoiuc, likewise. tsea&npxX, publicly. IQ'.Xovtw, willingly. ay^pi,-*, manly. avoltpavSa, clearly. «rs, so that, otiw?;, how, as if. tfj.3, together. « ' > even as. 128 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. 4. Affirming ; p)v, oV, truly ; ticx, a^y, certainly, be it so ; olov, o?x, W, for as much as, oWa, iwVafiev, to wit, namely. 5. Denying ; a, ax, «xl, juV, no, not ; «Te, ju*^e, neither 5 juhj, JjJtcb, no verily. 6. Doubting; h, tl, htj, or, if ; a^a, yea, rather; *, (UKp3h7,. w.5 ett* to iso?u>\ near,, almost, thereabout. 10. ABATEMENT; axpo&iyw?, xaTa /xixpoy, arptfiCK;, E7n£pa;£^, by degrees, by little and little ; ^a\E7rw?, oW;$£p«j, appwrw?, hardly, with difficulty. 11. Order; xa0£fv5?, in order; e*t«, a^ro T^Ttf, tsrop'p'^ thereafter, from this time : to TsXEUTaToy, to cu'yoXoy, teAo?, to so-gOToy, finally ; roc, vrara, lastly ; -crpwToy, in the first place ; ^EUTEpoy, hvTzgvs, secondly, in the second place; Tprroy, Tp*T«s, thirdly, &c. Some Adverbs form comparison; as, fyovf/*«s> wisely, ^poyiju-wTspwc, ^povtjuwTCCTwe ; ayw, upwards, aywTEpw, aywraTW ; [xolxoc, grealy, /itaXXov, /uaAij-a; to^x v > swiftly, S&Tloy, T«^ir«; w«, a little, ^rloy or ^<7. when j ttote or 9rW/cor, when ? tote or T»mxa, then ; oQtv, whence; sroOsv, from whence? tCQ», from thence; Sh, ADVERBS. 129 where, noQi, where ? to9i, there ; ocrov, as much as ; woo-ov, how much ? roa-ov, so much ; olov, like as ; xoTov, what like? to7ov, such like or such kind j oerax*?, often 5 ?row? manifestly, from away with ! 5. Praising; six, ivy?, well done! 6. Admiring ; £»£«*, waTal, O strange ! 7- Threatening ; Sou, woe to me ! 8. Calling; S, O ! 9. Shewing; $e, $£, lo, behold ! Adverbial Particles, used only in Composition : "Privation, from aw, without, as aw- ^oj, without water. « or «, signifying < Increa f fror ? f™ much ' as **°* ^ a j much wooded. j Union, from a/*«, together, as ato^o?, L a consort. Av before a Consonant drops the v, as o,9c««to?, immortal, 130. GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE, The following signify increase : api, from upu), to furnish. fiw, from fiovg, an ox. £§», from PptQvc, strong. £a, from oao-vj, thick. 5^, from spu, to connect. fa, iEolic, for £ta. Xa, from \ictv, much. Xi, the same. Auj signifies difficulty, as ^vort,;^, to be unhappy. Ne and »* signify privation, like the Latin ne, as mtens, without pity. PREPOSITIONS. Six are Monosyllables: eU, h or l|, i*, vpo 3 irpoj, o-i/'v. Twelve Dissyllables : a/x<£>*, ava, avr), a7ro, $iu, fad, Kara, (Airoc,, wa^a, Kt%\, vv\p, viro. In composition, five of these increase the signification : £*?, ex or e£, cruv, rsp}, Cwe^. Six sometimes increase, and sometimes change: am, cctto, &a, xaTa, ?rapa, Trpoj. One diminishes : vttq.- One changes : pna. 3 Of the Prepositions the three first are Atonies, without an accent ; the rest are Oxytons. There are eighteen separable Prepositions, viz. u*1) 9 a7ro, ex, -crpo, e», cuv, aya, Etj, dta, xara, /-tE/a, i/Trep, a,ixc«v airoivTUV xav ayocdov ho\ r^sifjiviv, 1 prefer one good man before, or above, all the bad men in the world. 2. 'Ex. sometimes signifies with ; as, Ik y.carot:, before the judges ; ?> t^W vtxtoic, under these Consuls; iv t*5 To\v\6yix. av-rSv, for their much speaking ; Iv C HX*«, of or concerning Elias. 5. 'Ava, about, on or upon ; as, ava j*wpi»Ta$ $vv f about two measures each; ava fivfAQis, upon the altars: with a Dat. or Abl. instead of the Ace. 6. *£*?, for, against, about; as, dc rov cclZvx, forever; ih rov $r,ij.ov, against the people ; tU 'Uotrov, about an hundred, 7. A;a, before or in presence of, for, with, because or on account of ; as, hot toXXudi p.«pTv'pwv, before many witnesses ; hot o-sixvto, ypciQu, I write these things for you; ha. fA.iha.mi, with ink; h' a^apnav because, or on account of sin. 132 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. 8. Kara, sometimes signifies on account of, at, before, towards, upon, throughout, concerning ; as, ovx. on x.«,r' vrqnra Xsy», not that I speak on account of want j xar' cp%«^, iu, or at the beginning ; k«t» vfoo-uvov ira^m xduv, before the face of all people 5 xara \i£a, 7 towards the South-east 5 xara y«s xaS^at, I sit upon the ground ; xaS 1 oKus Ttis la^aiaj, throughout all Judea ; r» *«*•* ITaCXov, the things concerning Paul. 9. Mto, within, or on, during; as, per' ey^ouv r'/x/pav, within or on the eighth day ; (xetoc tqv Giov, during life. Sometimes it is used by the Poets with a Dative, and sig- nifies among 5 as, /xeto. Bg^rotat^ among the first. 10. 'Tarep, on the side or part of ; beyond or more than ; Swep »fjLt£» Er*Vj he is on our side or part ; vvlf I/xe, more than me. 11. 'A/x(pl, towards, for the sake of; as, otp, for, on ac- count of one man ; Trapa vov Kelp&ov, besides, or than that which is laid ; -rago. rov v6[j.ov, against, or contrary to the law. Also above, or in preference to; as, rj/^pav xa,^ "r^av, one day above another ; at, or in the time of: as, vaga. to ^cittvov, at, or in the time of supper ; through or during ; as, nag oXov tov /S*ov, during the whole time of life j through, as, 7:0,% avow to pgat-Kvpo*, through the whole army. II. Many of the Prepositions require sometimes to be englished by circumlocution ; as, ol ano rni vTcCldac, consu- lar men 5 ol xar' ayo^av, pleaders 5 avx. ^moi^iov '{XaQov, they PREPOSITIONS. 133 received every man a penny $ Ik irepoSu, round about ; kxt '/ Ifw, and hro?, are often used for absque, sine, or extra ; ^sVafu is sometimes used for inter ; h%g for intus or intra , vsgot or ve§oo> 3 for trans or ultra ; w%pi or »x§Ut for tenus j and AaS^a, for clam. They all govern the Genitive ; as, "Anv Xoya, without the word. X«§ls $£ji*8X<«, without a foundation. 'Ex<^ ccpTreXcDvos, out of the vineyard. 3 Ekto$ t« n crufxarog, without the body. Metu^v aWriXuv, among themselves. 'Evto? teix^s, within the walls. 'Evrog t5 TTorajuy, on this side the river. ITf^av 'iySSv, beyond the Indians. 'Apcpi T«ra t« \6yx, until this word. Aa0§a >fjuwv, unknown to us. IV. 5 E| is used for Ik when a vowel follows j lyi is used for ev by the Poets ; kA is sometimes joined with a Dative by the Poets ; and the Attics use U for hg. Also Ivto? is sometimes joined with a Dative by the Poets ; as, Ivrog viuv, among you. Palam, openly, is expressed by Trs^tpoi- vu$ ; and k^vQcc, or xpu£5nv is sometimes used (instead of Aa9§a) for clam, without the knowledge of. OF PREPOSITIONS IN COMPOSITION. I. 'Avrt, kxo, £*<*, xara, Tra^a, either augment or change the signification of the simple word - } as, N 134 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. 'Avra^oc, preferable. "Avtiweijlwq, to send back. 'A^oTEiyw, to extend. 'Asro^avSavw, to forget. Arxy-xZ, to laugh at. AiasrtrS, to disbelieve. K»t eo-9/w, to devour. Kotratyoveu, to despise. Ucc^y.£d\\u), to throw far. Uix^yo^oc, 2, law-breaker. II. 'Fac, If, truY, arsg*, V7r/f, augment the signification, and vt:o diminisheth ; as, 'Ehtoikxu, to hear plainly. U whilst; oi^xpU av, "suq ij, Xen. Socrates said. But eyen in these instances a peculiar emphasis is often implied: thus *J elpvivy may signify the peace desired; 6 2m- Kpolrni;, the great philosopher. Note. — Xenophon frequently omits the Article ; as, uSikh 2.uKoo(,Tvg, Memor. but never with e$*j or sins. 2. It is freqnently joined to a Participle ; as, 'O v, Thucydides. This Genitive is governed by ix and wo^ sometimes ex- pressed, as, T£T»yn*E»« If oc^dfjiavTo^ Theocr. 3. Words signifying 'plenty and want are followed by a Genitive j as, nxouo-ios jcax&Jy, Eurip. Full of evils.. <; irdrgaq, Soph. Than after a Comparative is often ex- pressed by r,, as, t* ysyotr' ay Epilog (jleT^ov, y QiXog xccxoc. Soph. 6. Cost or vafa/e, crime or punishment, difference or emi- nence, are put in the Genitive ; as, Aoj oivrov rj/A^y ^pa^urK, Anacreon, Giue /iiwi to us for nine * This is governed by am, as aXXaTTsaQa* tivi rpop&s ear] vo/aIs- fAturos, Arist. Sometimes the Dative is used ; s, and kccXus, and followed by vtto or itapa with a Genitive, as, KCCKWq OCKOVStV VTCO TUJV TToXlTUIV, IsOC. To these may be added Verbs signifying to abstain, to ask, to attain, to begin, to care, to cease, to command, to conquer, to despise, to differ, to endeavour, to fill, to neglect, to remember, to restrain, to separate, to share, to spare; and in general those which imply of or from, and may be fol- lowed by Ik and »vri. But many of these are found with other cases. 8. A Noun and Participle are put absolute in the Geni- tive ; as, 'Kxlov tsXXovtoi;, Soph, the sun rising. This construction may in general be considered as ex- pressing the cause of the event, which is the subject of the sentence. It is governed by U, Inl, or utto understood, and sometimes expressed, o,vc*pauv« ^wojuevw, Horn, evidently * This is governed by mp), as, liuxu ere ire pi Qacvdrov, Xen. These words are sometimes put in the Dative, (^//uwa-avTor invrnKovrcx ret- XavTots. Her. 142 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. governed by vvro. The Attics often use the Accusative go- verned by a Preposition understood, as, iikv el Qxvsvt ueXt- t», Soph. Thus the three cases, with which Prepositions are joined, may be used absolutely : in some writers they are used promiscuously, even in the same sentence. To the Accusative must be referred most of those in- stances, which are said to be in the Nominative, as 5eo», ifov, vtaflv, &c. Those which are really in the Nominative may be construed upon common principles. In other in- stances a Verb must be understood. 9. Exclamations of grief and surprise are put in the Ge- nitive ; as. TZq fAupiccc, Aristoph. What folly ! Ol'juot is often prefixed, as, olpoi tuv xockuv, Arist. i. e. eW«. 10. The Genitive is often governed by a Substantive or Preposition understood ; as, ITiE?v vScztos, Her. (yJpoc und.) To drink some water. Maxapio? rife tv'^u?, Aristoph. (zveko, und.) Happy by his fortune, Mue-^oa; woSos viy, Soph. (Ix. und.) Having seized him by the foot. THE DATIVE. This case is generally used as the Dative, and sometimes as the Ablative, in Latin. It expresses the object to which the action is directed, or for which it is intended. It im- plies acquisition and loss. It is placed after dpi, &c. in the sense of habeo, and after verbs signifying likeness, agree- ment, trust, resistance, relation, &c. It follows verbs com- pounded with avTi, h, IttI, 7ra,%a, TTpos, §nrsoq vovg, Soph. 3. c O auroj, the same, is followed by a Dative j as, Isoc. Those who conceal, are deserving of the same punish- ment as those who commit a fault. Euv is here understood. 4. Verbs signifying to accompany or follow, to blame, to converse, to pray, to use, are followed by a Dative, as, Tic vrm etovto, Horn. Him ships followed. TTkttoi)? wyou tou v s rot? a>[j.oi^rocvoy,evoig ETrmjuwyras, Plutarch, Think those faithful who reprove your faults. Yo, Menander, Associating with the wise, you yourself will become wise. Evx&Qou Att, Hesiod, To praz/ £0 GotZ. npc£c6T0i$ '^gijo-Oa^Xen. To M*e sfoep. Asopou requires a Genitive of the Person ; as, hyo-opou. iifAuv, iEsch. Many Verbs have a Dative of the person, and a Genitive 144 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. of the thing ; as, x{A iEschylus, Terrible in fight. TLEiguJ t6 jjlsv crw/xcs sivxi tyiXoirovoq, rr,v Se -^v^viv (piXoVo^o?, Isoc. Endeavour to be in body fond of labour, and in mind a lover of wisdom. These Prepositions are sometimes expressed, as, *$ kxtx crus^x ycxTiog, kxtx vovv 5' xv ioriv xpoffloc, Epigr. 3. The Accusative sometimes appears in the beginning of a sentence, without a regimen expressed, as rouVEX^vas ovSiv axtytg XtytTXi, Xen. 4. Verbs signifying to do, or speak well or ill, to give or SYNTAX. THE ACCUSATIVE. 145 take away, to admonish, to clothe, govern an Accusative of the Person, and another of the Thing, one of these Accusa- tives being governed by x«t* understood ; as, TLoXXcx. ayaOa rnv vox™ Itto^cte, Isoc. He conferred many services on the city. 'E'lpyoca-y.ui kclkol tov oIkov, Thuc. I have done evil to the house. 'Axocrripu [as tcc ^p^ara, Isoc. He deprives me of my pro- perty. Tavrcl /*« 3paV»?, Soph. 2. The Substantive is often changed into a Genitive Plu- ral, preceded by a Pronoun or an Article ; as, Oi ayaOoi ruv av^pwv, Isocrates, Honourable men. This construction is also found, in Attic writers, in the singular, as rnv w^eierw t*js a-T^ocnac, Thuc. In the Greek idiom the Genitive of the Personal is used instead of the Possessive Pronouns, as tiJ» /*>iTEpa [i.ov rivals, Xen. You honour my mother. But the latter are some- times found with the article, particularly in the orators, as rviv o/xovoiav t>iv C/xETEpav oi xoXXol fUTovcrij IsOC. 3. A Substantive is sometimes used as an Adjective j as, TXua-a-ocv 'EXXciSoc. &&»&, Her. He taught the Greek lan- guage. Here IxXxg may be considered as an Adjective used as a Substantive. 4. Adjectives are frequently employed alone, taking the place of a Substantive, as oi iroXXoi, r* I^a, &c. THE RELATIVE. 1 . The Relative often agrees with its antecedent in case, by attraction j as, 5 Ev t«Tj EopTaff, uU viyofxev, Aristophanes, In the festivals, which we celebrated. SYNTAX. THE RELATIVE. 147 This is called attraction, because the Antecedent attracts the Relative into its case. The Relative, in this construction, sometimes precedes the Substantive ; as, cn)y y *x H $ $vvu[ah, Xen. 2. The Article is poetically used for the Relative j as TTar^, o w£ luv/rjxs ji*«^£o-0«t. Horn. Who induced them to fight ? o2 148 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. 2. The Pronoun Accusative, before the Infinitive, is fre- quently omitted -, as, "E$n £jte?v (socvrov und.) Plato, He said that he was in- quiring. The Infinitive Mood and the preceding Verb, generally, but not always, relate to the same person j el hs o~ov Xa£o- /x5?0£ £*jto ho-puiTygiov liroLyoi, tydcnim txhxuv (oxX»j$ e ikuvos ov ko\£[ah, I say that or thus, he does not make war. It is not necessary that r*s should be always joined with o?. Sometimes on is added to strengthen the force of ano- ther Pronoun ; as, aAX 5 ovv I'ywy ov vuvaopui, tovt iVQ' on, Aristoph. The Greeks in narration frequently use the Present tense, when on introduces the words of the person, who is the subject of the narrative. "Or* sometimes signifies to the end that. Here the full expression is 3*a on, for that, for this. The two words often coalesce, and become h&n, — Sometimes on signifies elliptically what is the reason that; as, e 5 *W on roa-crov Ixvo-olto 6o:£og 'AtoXXuv, Horn. Here the full expression is uTToi n la-nv oClnov on, let him say what is the reason for thin, Phoebus is so enraged ; or h* on. — It is likewise frequently used for because, and is there too governed by &*, for this reason. SYNTAX. — THE INFINITIVE. 149 5. The Infinitive is used with or without a Preposition, in the sense of the Latin Gerunds and Supines ; as, 'Em xvp&/ ; as, Xapt? ^;api» Ic-riv >i tjxtovo-' asi, Soph. A kindness always produces a kindness. * That is, xocrx to doxuv s/ao), secundhm meam sententiam. The Infinitive is sometimes understood, as hhiyov vctptdoQri, Lysias, (&»> und.) ctuveXovt*, Dem. ( Dem. He was not an enemy. Tov \6yov crov Savfxdcnxs I'^w, Plato, 1 have admired your speech. El/Ai is used as an auxiliary with participles, as Tf(W\a.% \\iy- xw Qv'kcLYM, Soph, (h und.) Sentinel was blaming sentinel. The Participle of dpi is often understood, as ol h rixu, (ovte; und.) Thuc. Those who are in power. c 2. With a Participle Tuy%a'vw signifies by chance; XetvGuw, privately or ignorantly ; -ov ov x^oo x(>o Soph. I shall not cease having God for my defender. "lo-Qt Mtyiypevvi, Aristoph. Know that thou art come. Aei%v Soph. In the former time. In the same manner they are used for Substantives, as ol 7reK Ka, no/su, $£%&), Qvpi, ^pao^at, &C. as, c H$su<; e^e 9rpo? oiitixvTocq, Isoc. Be pleasant to all. EC ntzo-xuv, tv Tcotuv, Dem. To receive, to confer, benefits. 5. Two or more Negatives strengthen the Negation j as, Ovk Eoriv ovTtv, Eurip. There is nothing. Ov^ettotb ov^h ov y.ri yvmrui rwv Seovtuv, Dem. Nothing that is necessary will ever be done. PREPOSITIONS. govern the Genitive, Dative, or Accusative. The principal relations of things were first expressed by cases ; the others, and that perhaps at a later period, were expressed by Prepositions. As the relations of things be- came more numerous, the number of Prepositions was ne- cessarily increased ; and that great variety, which became expedient in modern times, being applied to the Greek lan- guage, has produced some confusion and difficulty. Twenty different meanings have been assigned to a Greek Preposi- tion ; and the same Preposition has been made to bear the most opposite senses -, as to and from, for and against, above and below. One primary natural sense, however, has been assigned to each Preposition ; and to that sense may be referred all the other significations, arising from analogical or figura- tive relations, easily flowing from it, and regulated by the case to which the Preposition is prefixed. The meaning, then, of the Preposition adapts itself to the use of the Case. Thus the primary and natural meaning of vvo is under. The Accusative is used after words signifying motion; hence Cto v I?uov rix9f, Horn, he came under the walls of Troy. The SYNTAX. PREPOSITIONS. 153 Genitive implies influence or origin ; hence Ino x.$ vau/xa;£iaj, Her. after the naval fight. 154 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. TI%o, Before. Before : v^o Svfiv [MvvB(rQa,i Tttg! 7rar§/K, Horn, to fight for our country. About; D. ^w^ajta 7r^i toT? ctepvok;, Xen. a breast-plate. About: A. $uXauui wtjl to a ' rov ^P^s «^p°s ju.*iJev vtovoh xax.6v, Epict. from a good man expect nothing bad. Towards : D. n^os ru rsXn tov (3'iov, iEsch. towards the end of Ufa To l A. a, $' av [Aa,Qn vottg, rccvroc after. "ivx, where. "ivoc, that, Imp. Fut. Aor. Kxtireg, although. Mso-^a, until. Mrf, lest, Past. v Ottov. when. 3 Oty*, whilst, Past. Optative. Ai'Qf, el'Qe, 1 wish, Pres. and Fut. Interrogative Particles, with ay. Ivcc, TTw? ccv, how ]• that, Past. Subjunctive. \Av, e ^X^> until - El, if Mr}, forbidding. Mvjtto;?, lest. 'Ottotj, 'Ottotccv, y-wheri. "Ore. •ore, -\ oTav, >5 h J El is used by the Dramatic Poets with the Indicative and Optative only. By Homer it is used with the Subjunctive also, joined to av or ki. — When eI is used with an Impera- tive, or an Aorist Indicative, the Verb in the corresponding clause, preceding or following, is put in the Indicative with av ; as, d /x*j v tot Ittqvovv, vvv av ovk sv^aivo^nv, Aristoph. Mu\ forbidding, with the Present, governs the Impera- tive j with the Future the Indicative ; with the Aorist, when it refers to the Past, the Optative, — when it refers to the Future, the Subjunctive. Indicative, Optative, Subjunctive, and Infinitive. \\v, Ks, Potential, "Euq, as long as. MviTTOTF, leSt. n$\v, before. to?, that. *Av used in prose, and x.s and kzv in verse, give a Potential sense to the Verb. Thus in the Imperative hx ov signifies / had ; sl^ov av, I would have. In the 2d Aorist elvov means i" said ; ufiov av, I would have said. The Present Optative with av is often used by tragic writers in the sense of a Future Indicative -, thus ^vo*/*' dv, Soph. I will stay. 4 Av frequently signifies soever; as, a7ravS > oV av \iyu t SYNTAX. CONJUNCTIONS. 159 Aristoph. whatsoever words I may speak : or; xev xaram/erw, Horn, whatever I may nod. — *Av in this case follows the Noun or Particle, and precedes the Verb. *Av is sometimes understood, as JxQov iy»\ Theocr. i. e. ay, / would have come. Indicative, Optative, and Infinitive. J 'flo-Tf, so that. These have ay expressed or understood, with the Opta- tive : wi N , lest. Conjunctions Postpositive are ya%, •* These are Prepositive and Postpositive, — ay, a^a, }rt, In*. The rest are Prepositive. These are called Expletive, which are not easily trans- lated into other languages, but have a peculiar expression, the loss of which would be discovered by a critical judge of the niceties of Greek composition : — «$, «,§», «u, ys, W, ^>rra, S» v y, xe, ksv, (xnvj w, wig, itov, ttw, pa, and some others used by the Poets. CORRESPONDING PARTICLES. 'Em^ay, when, — -nwxauTa, then. T Ht, as far, — ravm, so far. r Hjuai, when, — tote, then. p2 'H/xev, when, — v$e, then. *Hn*oj, when, — r^og, then. 'UvIkk, when, — tyivUu, then. "la-ov, just, — noil, as. 160 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. KccQdffsg, as, — ovroo, so. Msv, indeed, — ^e, but. Mh, both, — $\, and. O^olov, like, — cvctte, as. Opo'iug, like, — wo-TTEp, as. "Qnovy where, — IxeT, there. Ocra-ocKk, as often, — t6s— outwc: &C. One of the Corresponding Particles is frequently omitted, as ovah Iv rZ $iZ rap^icrra yiSfoia-KU w? y> %^k, Socrates*. * See Appendices IV, V, VI, and VII, for Accents, Prosody ; Poetry, and Dialects* ( 161 ) APPENDIX. No. I. THE DIGAMMA. The form of this character was at first a Gamma re- versed, then a Gamma : afterwards it assumed the shape of a double Gamma, F, whence it derives its name. Hence it has sometimes been written r, as TdQioi for Fa&o*. The Emperor Claudian ordered that it should be written j-, or F reversed. It has frequently been expressed by B, and sometimes by K, M, IT, P, <£, X. It cannot be ascertained with precision what was the pronunciation of the Digamma, which underwent some changes. In its origin it was probably a soft guttural sound, like the German g final in wenig. Such is the pre- sent Greek pronunciation of the Gamma. From a guttural the transition was natural to the sound of our W. In this state it passed into Italy, under the form of V, and retained this pronunciation during the rougher periods of the Latin language. The German g, commonly expressed by gh in the Eng- lish language, has shared in South Britain the fate which the Digamma experienced in many parts of Greece, and is disused. The few instances in which it is sounded follow the principle of the Digamma F, as cough, enough, laugh, rough, tough, trough. The frequent recurrence of this sound produced an effect so harsh and inelegant, that in the most polished states of Greece it was changed into an aspirate, and in the iEolic and Latin dialects it was softened into F or V, and became the Digamma. The Lacedesmonian dialect, a branch of the iEolic, always pronounced, and generally p3 162 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. wrote, the Diagmma like B, a letter which in modern Greece has the sound of V. It is probable that the Digamma final, or before a conso- nant, was pronounced like our F, and before a vowel like our V. The old Dialects of Greece admitted few or no Aspi- rates. The Digamma was calculated to prevent the hiatus which the concurrence of vowels would produce. The Digamma, however, was not interposed between two vowels to avoid a hiatus, but it was a regular consti- tuent letter of the word, omitted in a later age for the sake of smoothness. Aspirates were afterwards introduced into all the Dia- lects except the iEolic, which adhered to the Digamma. Hence it has preserved the name of the iEolic. It has also been called the Homeric Digamma, because that great Poet adopted the original forms of the iEolic and Ionic Dialects, which threw a majestic air of antiquity on his poetry. Homer did not, however, adopt arbitrarily the different Dialects. His was the pure appropriate diction of verse, the classical language of ancient Greece. 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 the absence of the Digamma made him inharmonious and defective. The restoration of the Digamma has at length vindicated the Poet, and displayed the harmonious beauties of his original versification. ( 163 ) APPENDIX, No. II. PRIMITIVES. In the opinion of some philologists the original form of Verbs consists of two letters, the former denoting the Ac- tion, the latter the Person : and from these elements spread- ing out into many vowels and consonants significantly combined, was formed that copious variety of words, which distinguishes the Greek language. The five simplest combinations are ecu, w, *«, ow, and vu. Of these the former letter will be found to indicate some of the principal functions of nature. The last letter denotes the Person, and is changed into other letters to signify the different Persons, Numbers, Tenses, and Moods. The first Person of the Active has the force, and the abbreviated form, of Iyw x j that of the Passive, of jae. The most simple change of the former into the latter formed the Middle Voice. Thus I'w, I produce, I send into existence ; hpi, or dp.], I produce myself, I send myself into existence ; or sim- ply, I exist, I am. From the same principle the origin of the Passive Voice may be deduced. "A«, signifies to breathe, to flow. v Ea;, to produce, to clothe. "lu, to send. y Ou, to bear. v Yw, to pour, to rain. After these Duads, the next combination consisted of Triads, formed by a Vowel inserted, or a Consonant pre- fixed or inserted. 164 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. 1. A Vowel inserted: a.vu, to breathe; ieiu, to permit; ldu>, to send , olw, to bear, to think. 2. A Consonant prefixed : £a'a>, to live ; $w, to bind ; km, to go ; wou, to drink ; 0u'«, to produce. 3. A Consonant inserted: oiyv, to drive, to lead, e$v, to eat; Ixto, to come ; o§«, to excite ; v$u 9 to flow. From these original combinations the formation of Verbs and their derivatives will be easily deduced. Thus from ayw are formed ccyav, uyccXXu, aysXri, ayelgu, ccyogix, ccyga,, ocyvix, &c. From /Saw are formed /Sa£w, pciQoc, fialvu, ficuos, fioiXKu, &C. From Ytu come ¥to<;, hilu, <$u\o$ 3 ^e/*», hc-pac, ha-KQTYiq, Stvw, Sexopw, $ov\o<;, &C. ( 165 ) APPENDIX, No. Ill LIST OF IRREGULAR AND DEFECTIVE VERBS. Of the following Verbs, those which are used only in the Present and Imperfect, are found in the first column. The second contains the obsolete roots, followed by the Tenses, which are formed from them. A. Ayojjua*, cvydito, a,ycz dYta, adricrw, yioyix.cc, yiqov & eaoov, sada. Avdavu, 1 . Verbs in a J«, frequentatives, as Tpo^afa;, 2o rzm o/£m. Verbs in «9w, derivatives (from other verbs), as dWaOw, from d\wxw. Verbs in cuv, derivatives, as x.B^aiu, from x?g«'u. Verbs of these three classes, and others in this list of the same form, have generally the Present and Imperfect only. Al^EW, a,l%Yi(Tb), Xw, uXov, sl\6[jt.Y)v, tXw, iXovpou, tlhU(AYlV. Yignx-cc, 166 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. AxSna-x.w, 'AXs^u, 'AXzopcci, 'AXwdsu, 'AxIo-ku, 'AXQotivu, ' AfJHZgTciyu 'Avuyu, aywfw, wuya, & ccvwyct, > ot,X$iu, aX^ricru, r,x}-nKCC. {Lx'vau, kXt^dpnv, yX&Xxov. aXtvv, yXwara,, yXwcipnv and Asa^v by Syn- cope. - aXtu, aXicru), nXiKoc. {uXou, a.Xw-0-u], <7o/xai,ri'Aw3Awxa& IdXuKX, yXupcti, r,Xuv & taiXuv. oA^ew, aXtyno-u. d.poc^riw, cc{AccgT , n-(ru), crojitat, v)[jt.dpTri-(Ta., xa, put, vpcigToy, Poet, ri'/x^poroy. I aywysw, Imp. yvwyovv, a,vuyi)?^cr- A^w, J jxat, y}"p£cr9*3>- Av^dvw, ~\ Av%v, >xv^eu), ccv<;r l -o-u } crou.cu,riv<;r\-(rcc, pai, wZnQriv. A^So^at, h,y$iu, a^Qscojuiat, *?%0iV9?iv, dy§i?<70jiAca, EyEV»J0"a/uifly, yEysyrj/xat, lys- y»)9»5y, iysv6fj.m, yiyovx. yuvofxat, lyEiva/xyjy. yEyaa. yvw-au, copal, zyju-KX, c/uat, EyvwaSjiVj yvwi-o-w, aropxi, ^atjxaand^EiS'aa,^*- »?juai, l^arv. ($t$nx } 2 Aor. M. Subj. dowra** 20 &W772.) ScL-au), copal, «$aara, i^aca/xny, ^a- xa, o-jutat. W-|a>, ^opxi, l$»jf;a, $$r)-x n / dSOOKYIKCC, J f C ovvocu, di»v>iiVjdEdyy*j/Aa^5duv*)0*iv. ' ' \ Svvd^u), l$VVC6 Yt, / » / * , //s Verbs in «w, signifying design, formed from Futures, as o-i/siu, to design to see, from otttv, F. o\u. ''EXa.ww, eXoo/, IXoutui, r\X, |ojw.a», sGiyov. TtQwixa,, rsSyaa, TsSyfixa & t^Qvuix, rsQvs-tdg, (wcra gen. wtos.) ESayov, 2 F. M. $J-fw, OfAOH. Pr.Imper. tj0»«S*, Opt. T86va*u>, Inf. TiSyayat, Part. rsOya?, 8. A. Ww. $op*icrw, IGo^oy, $opov/xa». 'i^vyw, i<*£U(»j wgoGuv & i^yyQtjy. /X«», 170 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. t T o / ( Icocv, Itvlcru, iVWa. C t^Uy kcrw, icroc. Verbs in i£w, derivatives from Verbs, as 9roX?/*»fw from 5rcX?jU,E«. 'iSJvw, t9«Wj iQvcrct), 'iQvcrct. WW*, / fc Wj ~f°^ at ' ^ v ' Iy/xat ' U W ~* (. ifw, tfov. ',. / rlXocu, IXoccrofxai, \\a.o~ct,fj.r l v , \Xyixoc., IXuo-Qyiv, U„p, rx«S*,Pr.M. i'^a, t / i > 'STTEOJ, CTr>lr>xa„ xzxEp^uxa, KXa^ui, 1 xXayfw, >xX>ryw, Perf. M. XExXrjya. JCEV.Xay^a, J xXctvcru, >x"kcuiw, xXairxru) . xixXocvxa, J KXvu, xXvfxi, Imper. xAuQt & XExXvQt. KopZVVVW, 1 JCOpEW, XOpsCTO), IxopECTa, IXOgZCrd.fJ.rw , KZX.OgYI-X.CX,, JJLCU,. Ko^vw(ju, S IxopscrQYiv. , (kpzu.cw, xpEiAtxerw, xpEu.ricroua,i, EKptiLCtara, zxpzua- Kpsfxanvc ¥Lpz\J.a>vvvfj.i, I x*iai, >XEgdEC< > xix*U) x.ix* lKi X v * a ' a 'y lKi X n<7a 'r l ' fiV > iKi X < - , CxpzfxaAi>, xpEfjuxerw, xpEfj.ricrofj.a,i, ' -l cra.fj.riv, Expzfj.curvv\v . " ' LtfEju,r)/x^ xpEfxa.fj.ai. l XTHjW, EXT^V, 2 A. M. IxTOCfAYIV, Inf. XTOO-fiat, sxraxa & f Part. xt*/asvoj. IxTovrjxa, APPENDIX. IRREGULAR VERES. 171 KvhivSv, Kvvecp, KVXlVOElt), KVXlVOVKTU. kvw, kvo-ci), iKvaa, & eKVcrcroc. Accyxavv, AocpQccvcp, AccvQd.vw. f Xfi^oj, Xri-qv, %opui, 'ki'wxjx, Att. i%Xy\-x^, ypca, eXuxov, Perf. M. XiXoyx?-" X^opoci, XsXriQa, Att. ilXrityu, PuAti/a- pcct, & EiXyppui, iknfflm & El\Y)(pQr,v, XYiQQr l Touo'A ) sXaSov, \Xcc£opriv. XtXahrixcc. Xolp-^opxi, lXocp-^ccpr)v, XsXccppcu, sXccp(pQviv . Imp. eT^Oov, X»- jxcc^rtcropoct & pc^x^opcn, Ipax^crcipnv & lpa.xwoi.pnv, pspuxvpeu, 2 F. MeXXw, psXXsu, psXXn&tP, \ptXXv\croc. MeXw, pfXiu), pikricru, IpsXwo-apriv, pipiXn-xa, pal <& pipQXnpca, ipikffew, spsXcv, p^pnXoc. M/yyi/p, f ply V, pi-%u, Zopcci, epifa, pipi-x, ypcci, ptpl<;opcu, IplxQw, 2 A. P. tpiyw, piyy\ ' > derivatives, as nmccu, from vtfdu. Odcc^u, -oft., 0C7W Perf. : 'oJw^a has the sense of the Present Of&aii \ f°ft«, rf.MAj Qdtx^iu, odcc^rxrcv. VidXlVU, ~\ OlSccvx, >ol$£U, O"ou,cci, ") ,, O^ai, J 2 A. u^6fj.r-,v, J ol^ou, ' OXiaQcclvu, OXktQcIvw, 'OXXv'u, "OXXvfAt, 'Ofxvvco, "Ofj.Wfj.1, Ofj.opyw[xi, 'Oytf/xi_, "Ovivvjixi, 'Ofvvv, *Opvpn, '0<£>e*aw "Op* 'O^Tua-xa CoXzu, } OfAOU, ofAopyw, oveu), otrq PfiAEW, 'AW, "k , / I o®fiAE& / I oOXtv, HTX.CCVU, J o\dv\, uXi'y[ Jitt h lwii%vnv, iVayfly, 9ray>x70juai , TiTrnya. 'Trow, 7rw<7w, ttettw-xo, juat & •7te<7roycn i eVoO^v. tt/w, Pres. M. irioyoii, •jrla-oy.cn, eviov, 2 F. M. movycn. .Trlyi, Impel'. ttTO*. 7nw, •jrio'u, eiTiffa. •TrXolw, rrXriffw, \irXnffa, I'rr'Kna-ciym, ireTrTwiffycn, sTrXyo-Qriv , T£?rA»)0a. T\r)yi, Imp. Pas. E7rAr?/-e»jy. Trroct), TrevruKot. <7reru, eveffoi, \<7recra,ynv. TSff-eu, e<7rsffov, C Z F. M. <7Teffovycn. •yrraipu, eWTOigov. ttsvQu), , EppWo, farewell. q3 174 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. 2. S&yvw'w, XbEyyW/Xi, SxEdavyvw, SxEdayvw/xt, } crxEdaw, <7XEd'aa - w, EO-KE^a-aa, o~y.cn, EcrxE0ao-0*!y* {crxXaw, cry.\y\a , oy,c/A, 1 A. £ iy. Ttrpn/x*, J Trtfotivu, 1 A. Irlr^vcc. Trtpuicrxu, Tguyw, trgccyov, Tvyxavy, APPENDIX. — IRREGULAR VERBS. 175 Qyiv, TguQwo-ojxut. }dpa.jw,EW, dE^ct/^-xa, fxoci. ^ijj.u, 'iSpccpov, 2 F. M. Sgctpovpcu, $z$gopajv. i»*X»j Per. M. hhox«- Qa-cra, xa. ?&("> 176 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. X. 'ftfitw, Xatfw, } w**™* Xugvio-u), %a,^(royM\ t \y^,^w. X*?»> >X a ^' iU) > Xai%Y)cru, lxicra, } xf^apn-xa, |wat, xsp^xa, J XE^ap^Vo/xai. Xayaaya;, E^adoy, XE^avda. p^EicrOjUtai. Xacxw, \ XMM, %av£, ^ayoy/AOi, sp^ayo?., xs^aya & XcMTKC&^Ot), xsp^va. X^UVVlJU), XgWVVVfJLl, j X9™> Xgvcrit), kex%(i>-[jlou & cr/xa*. Xoyytw, \ X° u > X^o-w, %x u< ™f x-£X u X H fi> X-~Z 0C ' D* X*~Z f > X"? ^* P- X^> X u fi v > X f P«"'» X i7 ^- 178 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Dissyllables, if the first is long and the last short, cir- cumflex the former, as fxovacc : in other cases, they acute the former, as /*ouV«j. Polysyllables, if the last syllable is short, acute the ante- penultima, as avfy unoc ; if long, the penultima, as avQpwwou. Exceptions with the last syllable short : 1. Participles Perfect Passive, as tetv/*j*eW 2. Verbals in eo$ and sov, as ypxTrrsog, y^irriov. 3. The increasing Cases of Oxytons, as Aa^a?, Aa/x- ~oL$og. 4. Many derivatives, as Trai^'ov. 5. Compounds of $dx\w, ttoAe'o/, x™> & not w ^h a Prepo- sition, as hy€6\o$. 6. Compounds of tUtu, mwu, r$£, with a Noun, if they have an Active signification, as, vpuToroKog, she who produces her first child; %iQokt6vos, he who kills with a sword j Aaorgo^of, he who feeds the people. If they have a Passive signification, they follow the general rule, as Trpwroroxo?, the first-born child; %i$Utovo$, he who is killed with a sword; AacTpotfioc, he who is fed by the people. 7. Compounds of Perfects Middle with Nouns and Ad- jectives, as ao-rpoAoyes, okoyop.oj. S. Many other Compounds retain the Accent, which they had in their simple state, as ov%a,v6Qe», xa-mpcov. So Prepositions, preserving their final vowel in composition, Exceptions with the last Syllable long. The Attic mode of keeping the Accent on the antepe- nultima in MmXsuc for Mfvteos ; or the Ionie Genitive, as TlnMidhu - t or the Compounds of yixuc, can scarcely be called exceptions, as the two last syllables were in pro- nunciation contracted into one. At and oi final are considered as short in Accentuation, as pova-ou, av0§wwo». Except Optatives, as ^tXW*, mvQot ; Infinitives of the Perfect in all Voices, of the Second APPENDIX. ACCENTS. 179 Aorist Middle, and of the Present of Verbs in p, as tctw^e- vai, tstv'QQou, TETUTrevat ; Tt>7TE tVvo.;, are short. Nouns make *9og, as c'gv.ts, o^Qog ; and those making i&>?, if their penultima is long, as Kvnpj, KwipiSog. Nouns in if, tyo? or fco ; ', as jut-ao-Tif, paariyog j <£>omf, $oi- Monosyllables in *%!•, tTro?, as 9-pj^, ^ittoc. T is short, as ttv^, sri/po?. Except in Words of two terminations, as Qopuvv and QopKvg, with rpuNk, ypwrrog J yi>4o yvirog ; /9e^pyf, /SfCpyxo?, are common. APPENDIX — PROSODY. 283 Penultima of the Tenses of Verbs. The quantity of all Tenses generally remains the same as in the Tense from which they are formed 3 as from x§w« are formed ExpJvbv, xfivopcu, ixpwojttijv; from xpim are formed KVApiKO,, XEXpYjUai, I)tp*0'<1V. The Perfect follows the quantity of the First Future, as xrl^ijj, kt1ct(o, eKTixoc, 3 (pvu, (pUo-w, 7Tc'yi7xa. If the First Future is long by position only, the penul- tima of the Perfect is short, as yp£.\w t yiypctOa. In the Attic reduplication the Penultima is short, as ccvrrv, upvycc, opupvyjx. The Perfect Middle follows the quantity of the Second Aorist, as &iwov, TETuWa ; except j3s(sgI0a, Eppiya, *EXg<£ya, K$y,plyoi } fAEp.vx.cc, TTEVpccycc, Trs^Ixa, rsTfiyoc, &C The doubtful vowels before en are long, as TervQam. In the First Aorist Participle, acra is long. In the Imperative of Verbs in p, v is short in polysylla- bles, as xU\vQi, but long in dissyllables, as x?iu0*-. In the First Future a, *, and v, followed by era, are short, as 'ja.Vfj.u^ct/, d'a.Vfj.c&o'v 5 vo/xi^w, vofxicru 5 5cAu'£o>, xkvau. But a<7« is long from Verbs in aw preceded by a Vowel, or in %[JL£T£p ; with wi. The Imperfect and Second Aorist of Verbs in up, aS ih'lKVVV, ttyvv. AP, YP final are short. Except A§ long : r»£ and e&vrup are sometimes long in Homer. Yp long : Uvp. AS, IS, YS final are short. Except As long : Nominatives of Participles, as rv-^s. All Cases of the First Declension, as fugja?* APPENDIX, — PROSODY. 1S5 Plural Accusatives in cc$ from the long « in ff\e Accusative Singular of Nouns in &$. NouqS in ag, uvrog, as A"ag j with raAas. Is long : Words of two terminations, as h\q>\$ and hxqlv. Nouns in *$ increasing long, as kU, juo$. Tj long : Words in two terminations, as Uw$» &c. r3 1S6 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. APPENDIX. No. VI. POETRY. I. Feet. Each of the following Divisions consists of feet equal in time, as one long is equivalent to two short syllables. The first two contain the simple, the last three the compounded feet. I. II. Iamb, Trochee, Tribrach, II Spondee, Dactyl, Anapest, I. Choriamb, Antispastus, Ionic a majore Ionic a minore n T. Paeon I, Paeon II, Paeon III, Paeon IV, V Epitrite I, Epitrite II, Epitrite III, Epitrite IV, _ _ i> _ APPENDIX. POETRY. 187 2. Metres. A Metre, or Syzygy, consists properly of two feet, be- cause in beating time the foot was raised once in two feet. But by Metre is generally understood a Verse, or, except in Dactylic Metre, a system of Verses. Of Metres there are nine species : 1. Dactylic, 6. Antispastic, 2. Iambic, 7. Ionic a majore, 3. Trochaic, 8. Ionic a minore. 4. Anapestic, 9. Pseonic. 5. Choriambic, These Metres take their names from the feet, of which they are principally composed. With the Dactylic mea- sure, consisting of Dactyls and Spondees, the learner is supposed to be acquainted. Iambics. Of Iambics there are three kinds : Dimeters, consisting of two measures, or four feet ; Trimeters, of three mea- sures, or six feet ; and Tetrameters, of four measures, or eight feet. The following is a synopsis of the feet strictly allowed in every place of a Trimeter. 1st Metre 2d Metre 3d Metre Every foot, except the last, admits an Anapest of Proper Names. .168 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Trochaics. OfTroehaics there are two kinds, Di meters and Tetra- meters. Synopsis of a Tetrameter Catalectic : 1st Metre 2d Metre 3d Metre 4th Metre S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Every foot, except the fourth and seventh, admits a Dac- tyl of Proper Names. In Tragic Trochaic Tetrameters, an Anapest is admitted only in Proper Names. A Pause takes place at the end of the fourth foot, or second metre, which properly ends with a word. The Trochaic Tetrameter is easily reducible to the Iam- bic measure, if a Cretic, or its equivalent, is removed from the beginning of it. Anapestics admit Anapests, Dactyls, and Spondees, and are commonly Dimeters of four, and sometimes Monometers of two feet. Of the former the most strict is the Dimeter Catalectic, called a Parcemiac, which closes the system. Anapestics may contain an indefinite series of Metres. Any number of these constitutes a system, which may be considered as extended without any distinction of verses, or, in other words, may be scanned as one verse. It has, generally, for the sake of convenience, been divided into regular Dimeters, which of course can admit no licence in the final syllable, and which must always be followed by a APPENDIX. POETRY. 189 Paroemiac. But as in this mode of division it must often happen that a single Metre remains before the final Parce- rniac, that Metre is placed in a separate verse, and is termed a base, or supplement. The only restraint in Anapestics is. that an Anapest must not follow a Dactyl, to prevent the concurrence of too many short syllables ; that each Metre must end with a word ; and that the third foot of the Paroemiac must be an Ana- pest. Anapestic Dimeter Acatalectic. 1st Metre 2d Metre 1 2 3 4 A Paroemiac, or Dimeter Catalectic. 1st Metre 2d Metre Anapestic Base, or Monometer Acatalectic. One Metre 1 290 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. APPENDIX, No. VII. DIALECTS. The Pelasgi, a wandering people, are said to have been the first inhabitants of Greece. Their language was im- proved by Cadmus, who increased the number of letters and introduced the Phoenician characters. When the de- scendants of Hellen, spreading their incursions from Thes- saly, had made themselves masters of the country, their language, which differed from the Pelasgic chiefly in its inflections, became the common language of Greece, under the name of Hellenic. It is probable that the only difference, which existed at first, was between the inhabitants of the sea-coast and those of the inland part of the country. The former, inhabiting Attica and Hellas or Achaia, then called Ionia, spoke what is called the Old Attic and the Ionic, originally the same language. The people of the interior parts of Greece used a rough and broad language, known by the name of the Old Doric j and the iEolians, a branch of the original people, who set- tled in Boeotia and Peloponnesus, spoke a Dialect very simi- lar to the Doric. By the progress of civilization, these Dialects were sof- tened and improved. The Doric was mellowed into the beautiful language used by Theocritus. The Ionians made incursions into Asia Minor • settled on a part of the coast which received from them the name of Ionia; and by an in- tercourse with their Asiatic neighbours, their language as- APPENDIX. DIALECTS. 191 sumed the sweetness and grandeur which we admire in He- rodotus. The Attic, having passed, like the other Dialects, through many gradations, one of which was marked by the name of the Middle, was refined into what was called the New Attic, and became so polished and elegant, that it was adopted by men of letters and eloquence in every part of Greece. Thus the Attic, Ionic, Doric, and Molic, are the four principal Dialects of ancient Greece j but the separate in- terests and pursuits of different independent States pro- duced a greater variety. The difference was not confined to letters and syllables : if extended to words. Thus, according to Aristotle, a vil- lage in the Doric Dialect was *«/*»), in the Attic, Sn^o*;. To do or act in the former was ^«», in the latter, ^drruy. Writers in the Old Attic, Thucydides, the Tragic Poets. Middle Attic, Aristophanes, Lysias, Plato. New Attic, iEscHiNES, Demosthenes, Isocrates, Me- NANDER, XENOPHON. Old Doric, Epicharmus, Sophron, and the writers of the original Songs to Bacchus, which were succeeded by the more polished Choruses in Tragedy. New Doric, Bion, Callimachus, Moschus, Pindar, Theocritus. Ionic, Anacreon, Arrian, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Pythagoras. Molic, Alcjeus, Sappho. These Dialects are distinguished from the Common lan- guage, the koivy) $tclXsxTo<;, called also Hellenism, consisting of those words and inflections, which were common to every part of Greece. Another important Dialect of the Greek was the Latin language. Some Arcadians, driven from their country by the incursions of the Hellenes, emigrated into Latium, where they introduced the original Pelasgic language and characters. Hence the similarity of the Latin and the /Eolic dialects. New circumstances, and a mixture of the ancient Etruscan, produced that variety, which formed at length a distinct language, but never forsook the ana- logy of its original Molic form. 192 GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. General Properties of the Dialects. The Attic abounds in contractions, as QtXu> for faXM, v^nv for sihw. Its favourite letter is w, which it uses for o. It changes long into short, and short into long syllables, as Xsw\ for Xd6<;. In Nouns, it changes o, 01, and ov of the Second Declen- sion into a> ; as N. V. fed?, G. Xw, D. Xw, A. Aewv, &c. It changes «? into m, as Ssrsriis for otawTs. It makes the Vocative like the Nominative, as J $foos, Soph. In some Nouns it makes the Accusative in w, instead of w, wot, Or diva, as Xccyw for Xayuiv. It changes the Genitive so? into ewj, as (3a.?, in v^ovXofxnv. It changes ei into »i, as ^iv for c'^ar. It adds a syllable to the Temporal Augment, as opdu, lupccov for wpaov. It adds 9a to the Second Person in a-, as ijo-Sa for yc. It changes A? and pe of the Perfect into h, as Ei'x^a for XsXv.tya, upwypou for f*E(ACCg(jux.t. It drops the Reduplication in Verbs beginning with two Consonants, as iQ/Aa-rr^a, for fieGxoia-TVKK. It repeats the two first letters of the Present before the Augment of Verbs beginning with a, e, q • as 6xsu, uXeku, cXidXekoc. It forms the 1st Future and Perfect of Verbs in «, as from w -, thus Se'aw, ^sXrjVw, teSsA*)^, as if from $eAeV It drops y. In the Second Declension it changes ov of the Genitive into u, as SeS for §«?? ; and ow? of the Accusative Plural into oj and uc, as Sec? for &tov y g. In the Third Declension it changes cog of the Genitive into svg, as ^siXsvg for x-'^ ?' In Ferta, it forms the 2d and 3d Person Singular of the Present in eg and e, as tuVts?, tuVte, for rvnrus, rvintt. It changes o/u.ev of the 1st, and ouo-i of the 3d Person Plu- ral into opts and ovri, as \iyopic, "kiyowi, for Xtyoptv, Xiyova-i. It forms the Infinitive in /aev and fxsvca, as rvTrrs^iy and It forms the Feminine of Participles in o«r«, euoto, and uyoi, as TVTTToicra, TuVrEUcra and tvtctwo-x, for T^Vroi/o-a. It forms the First Aorist Participle in «k, atcra, atv, as rv^-ong, cacroc, cav for rv^-ag, cco-a, ecv. In the Passive it forms the 1st Person Dual in so-Qov, and Plural in er9a, as rvirTop-so-Qov, E<70a, for TUwrcju-sSov, eQcc. It changes ov of the 2d Person into sv, as tvVteu for TVTTTOV. In the Middle, it circumflexes the 1st Future, as rv^ov- fAKi for ru'-^o/xat. It forms the 1st Person Singular of the Future in tv/iou, and the 3d Plural in twroa, as tu^su/xch, Tv^uwa*. The .ZEolic changes the Aspirate into the Soft breathing, as ij/A^a for It draws back the Accent, as eyv for lyu, Qvui for #«/-<.), cuvoija for cn/voT^a, cLyaQoe for a,ya.Qoc; and circumflexes acuted monosyllables, as Zeus for Zst/?. It puts 9os for 9sv, as oirur9a for onurQa. It resolves Diphthongs, as wai's for rcar?. APPENDIX. DIALECTS. 195 In Nouns of the 1st Declension it changes oy into «o, as ai^oto for a.i$ov . It changes m of the Genitive Plural into auv, and a? of the Accusative into cm?, as juoucawv, (xova-ouc, for fj.ov. They drop short vowels in pronunciation, to diminish the number of syllables, as sytvro for lyinro. They drop syllables, as aXQi for uXQiTov. In Nouns, they form the Genitive and Dative in ce, pa, &C. END OF THE ANCIENT GREEK.