The Elements of Greek Grammar: With NotesCummings & Hilliard, 1821 - 271 páginas |
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2d Aor Accent Accusative Adjectives Anapest ancient aspirate Attic Augment Catalectic changes circumflexed Conjugation consonant contracted Dative Declension Dialect Digamma diphthong Dissyllables Doric dropt Dual Enclitic Eurip formed Genitive Greek Hence Homer IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE Ionic Ionic dialect Isoc language last syllable Latin letters Metre Middle neuter Nouns OPTATIVE MOOD Oxytons Participle Passive penult penultima Perf Perfect Person Pluperfect Plur Plural Poets prefixed Preposition Present pronounced Second Aorist Second Future short signifies Sing Singular sometimes Soph struck SUBJUNCTIVE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD Substantive syncopated Tenses termination tion Verbs Virg Vocative vowel word ἀπὸ ας δε εἴ εις εν ἐπὶ εσθαι ης καὶ μαι μεθα μεθον μην ντο οἱ οίμην ομαι όμενος ον ου οὖν παρὰ πρὸς σθε σθην σθον σομαι τατος τὴν τὸ τύπτω τῶν ων ὡς
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Página 245 - Arabic language 9 is pronounced \V ; but in the soft Persian, which may be called a polished dialect of it, it is sounded V. According to these principles, it is probable that the Digamma final, or before a consonant, was pronounced like our F, and before a vowel like our V.
Página 248 - X, mid otheis assert that e was lengthed before the liquid. But there were passages, to which even these, and similar expedients were inapplicable. A successful effort was made by the great Bentley to remove these embarrassments. — The restoration of the Digamma has at length vindicated the Poet, and displayed the harmonious beauties of his original versification. To give the learner some clue to guide him through these intricacies, an alphabetical table is added of the words in Homer, which either...
Página 17 - ... Five CASES : nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and vocative. In the singular, the vocative is often like the nominative ; in the plural, it is always so. In neuter words, the nominative and vocative are always like the accusative, and in the plural always end in -a. The dual has but two forms, one for the nominative, accusative, and vocative, the other for the genitive and dative.
Página 200 - ... as they are used in teaching English. For the proper modulation of speech, it is necessary that one syllable in every word should be distinguished by a tone, or an elevation of the voice. On this syllable the Accent is marked in the Greek language. This elevation does not lengthen the time of that syllable, so that Accent and Quantity are considered by the best critics as perfectly distinct, but by no means inconsistent with each other. That it is possible to observe both Accent and Quantity...
Página 203 - We may carry the analogy of Enclitics to English. When we say, Give me that book, we pronounce me as a part of the word give. For the boy is tall, we say the boy's tall; thus is becomes a perfect Enclitic.
Página 183 - In Pastoral, Elegiac, and Epigrammatic verse the syllable is more frequently short. In Dramatic poetry the following rules may be observed : A short vowel before a soft or aspirate Mute followed by a Liquid, and before a middle Mute followed by с , remains short in Comedy.
Página 207 - The difference of Accentuation serves also to mark the difference of signification, and has on some occasions given precision to the language, and even determined the ambiguous meaning of a law. Of this distinction a few instances may be given...
Página 200 - Accent falls on the antepenúltima equally in the words liberty and library, yet in the former the tone only is elevated, in the latter the syllable is also lengthened. The same différence will appear in baron and bacon, in level and lever, in Reading, the name of the place, in which these observations are written, and the participle reading.