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Valpy 1839 Greek Exercises Composition
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AT THE
UN1\ ERSITY OF
TORONTO PRESS
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GREEK EXERCISES;
BEING AN INTRODUCTION TO
GREEK COMPOSITION:
LEADING THE STUDENT FROM THE ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR
TO THE HIGHER PARTS OF SYNTAX;
AND
REFERRING THE GREEK OF THE WORDS TO
A LEXICON AT THE END.
FOURTH EDITION,
WITH MANY ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
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PREFACE,
c
the use of a new work introductory to it f
It is
granted that many of the apologies for Latin,
need exposure. It is
truly singular that a method,
which is
rarely found in works on Latin composition,
should have been so generally adopted in those on
Greek.
But this is not the only point in which this work
abridged what is
already an abridgment of the work of
In the sentence, Tliey have not what they may eat, (i. e.
always to be omitted.
The abbreviate ry marks are so simple, that it is
only
the Lexicon at the end for the word occasion, and not
for the word time.
ADVERTISEMENT
language.
PUBLISHED BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
SECOND GREEK DELECTUS; OR, NEW ANALKCTA MINORA :
with English Notes, and a Greek and English Lexicon. Third Ed.
8vo. Vs. <'/.
PART
I. PROSE, price 8s. 6d. bound, contains Selections from He-
TIRST PART.
ERRATA.
Page 362.
PUBLISHED BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
SECOND GREEK DELECTUS; on, NEW AKALKCTA MINORA :
with English Notes, and a Greek and English Lexicon. Third Ed.
8vo. 9. ;</.
tne ponu.
FIRST PART.
ACTIVE VOICE.
INDICATIVE MOOD.
PRESENT TENSE, do, am, or the Verb itself.
things.
The eyes
rfaa/
of the boar glisten.
We do not call (say) this" eu/ thing forgetfulness. ("Do"
is the sign of the Present.)
Hope does not-yet slumber. ("Does" is a sign of the
Present.)
Hand washes hand, and finger finger.
The sun rises, and the heaven shines.
Wisdom alone remains immortal.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
The Gods effect many""" things unexpectedly.
Gr. Ex. B
2 FIRST PART.
They sacrifice to the sun'* ', and the moon, and the earth.
PERFECT, have.
That, which"*"' I have written, I have written.
I have taken-care. I have wondered.
He has dared this most-base deed.
B 2
4 FIRST PART.
PLUPERFECT, had-
had struck you. They had
1
I written*" '.
We had wondered. Ye had believed.
They have Seft me. The brass did cut the tongue.
IMPERATIVE MOOD.
Present. Draw, draw me.
Go-thy-way, and offer the gift.
ACTIVE VOICE. 5
And do you, boy, bear (*;o/zi'w) me. ("Do" is here the
OPTATIVE.
Present. May ye succeed.
How therefore could (the particle av with the optative]
such-a-man (the such man) corrupt the young ?
May Prudence, the fairest gift of the Gods, cherish me.
B 5
6 FIRST PART.
for me*"'.
Not-even if ye should labor much.
They would leave a boast to Priam*", and Helen to the
" would" is
Trojans. (Here expressed by the optatii-e with
the particle Ktv.)
Gods.
SUBJUNCTIVE.
"1
Present. Let us" therefore no-more judge each-other.
ar/
Let pursue the things of peace .
us'"""
INFINITIVE.
Present. To speak true things.
To strike, to write, to
be-angry.
I wish to speak-of the Atridse ac ', and I wish to sing- of
Cadmus aec .
the.
infinitive.)
lady?
A sight dreadful to behold.
Permit" l
them to escape.
PARTICIPLE.
Present. Seeing they saw""^" in-vain, hearing (heark-
ening) they heard""*'' not.
You shall keep-guard-at this unpleasant rock, sleepless,
not bending your knee.
Flee pleasure bringing mischief ultimately.
I will send them holding gifts and bearing a thin robe and
a gold-wrought crown.
She flies, shaking her wishing to throw-down"
'
hair, the
garland.
Future. I am-come to te\Vem the calamity of the spouse.
"
pelling the other Peloponnesians do the same. (" Going
to
"
is expressed Inj the future participle of send off".")
Whom*"* the Athenians sent" to dwell there. l
Perfect. He was
carrying his (the) father who was very
old. " ivho was old"
(Express by the participle?)
Having conquered, he was plundering him.
acc
I, who have lived ninety-nine (ninety nine) years , and
have been conversant with many and manifold tempers''"',
"
write these things. (Put " ivho have lived in the participle.)
Second Aorist. I am arrived, having left the hiding-placid
of the dead, and 'the gates of darkness.
land.
2
They beheld" him alive and safe, having fled the courage
and the intangible hands of Ajax.
acc
plural) is-strong only a short time .
I weep looking-on you, O Priam, dearest of men, and your
city.
PASSIVE VOICE. 11
hurling) them. .
Hate the flattering as (just-as) the deceiving.
Imperfect. I was toiling to-no-purpose.
The whole house was sounding.
We were conquering.
Trumpets were sounding (shouting).
Stags were skipping.
You were doing (carrying -on) these things, being-pru-
dent.
PASSIVE VOICE.
INDICATIVE MOOD.
Present. Every tree, not (p)) producing (making) good
sulted !
More neut than three oboli was?' agreed-to for each maii rf
<".
miserated).
Happy are the peace-makers, because they shall be called
sons of God.
time be made-to-burst-out.
He shall be made-to-appear (i. e. shall appear) bright
"'
with armour to you and the citizens.
rf
i
The Second Future Passive is considered by some the same as the First
Future Middle used in a passive sense. Thus formed : Ttrrre'eo, -rvirliffta, TV-
jri\ff oncu. The Second Future Middle is viewed as the First. Thus formed :
IMPERATIVE.
Present. But come-on, be armed, my heart.
OPTATIVE MOOD.
Present. If you are persuaded, let us send" 1 *"'-'
the
guests.
Hearing (Hearkening) he would be delighted (opt. with
ay).
Things such-as any-one both saying and doing
would be thought (opt. with av) most pious.
Quick favors are sweeter but, if (in-case) you delay
:
1
'"'!',
vcry-shortly.
PASSIVE VOICE. 15
Second Aorist. If you say-'"' any thing, this boy will not
SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.
Present. In-case they are drawn-up in-any-other-rnanner,
they-will-get-into-confusion instantly.
First Aorist. Come-on, O my miserable hand, do not
(pi) be made-cowardly.
It is-necessary for him acc to be-punished (Sovvai SIKTJV),
that he may be
taught (subj. with av) to acquiesce-in the
" of Jove.
government
Look-about,lest you should be harmed.
INFINITIVE.
Present. To be struck. To be turned.
rapged.
a
Having made-an-agreement , he will seem not (p)) to
remember it.
"
Ijudge that no-one of them was loved. (Omit that" as
in Latin ; and put " was loved" in the infin.)
16 FIRST PART.
PARTICIPLE.
Present. The
things seen are temporary, the things not
MIDDLE VOICE!
The Present and Imperfect Tenses are formed like those
of the Passive.
INDICATIVE.
thinking-of"*,
but sees what you are doing 06 '.
be-silent,
fighting.
IMPERATIVE.
First Aorist. Beware-of the sharp-mouthed griffins; the
dumb dogs of Jove, and beware- of Arimaspus, the one-eyed
army.
00 ' *
Raise-yourself, and walk-about
Salute ye Urban us and Rufus.
Second Aorist. Be ye persuaded, as I discourse to you'"'.
OPTATIVE.
First Aorist. The time would fail (leave : opt. act. a. 2.
fc/f re harm.)
MIDDLE VOICE. 19
SUBJUNCTIVE.
Perfect. I will nod, that (unth-the-view-that) you may
trust me. (Jupiter is
speaking.)
First Aorist. Let us put-on the armour.
Do not (nn) censure all the female race.
Do not (/tj) you at-least do (work) these things.
Second Aorist. Overtake (imperative plural) the horses
of Atrides speedily, nor be left*" ' here. 1
Infinitive).
Second Aorist. So good was it that a son survived ; since
he punished m '
PARTICIPLE.
*
Perfect. They fled profound destruction, having fled
(work-out?
l
them to Cyrus**.
(surely).
Do you accuse me ? He is incensed.
tliey
ted^.
many-holes.
Some Verbs take an augment either before or after the
:
preposition
I was desiring.
Some Verbs take an augment both before and after the
:
preposition
They were reinstating the city.
s
I bore-with it.
sold-oft'a 2 m therefore
They (Ion.} the freight.
When I was?' 1
'''
an infant, I thought""^ (hud-under-
standing) as an infant.
(silently),
Let these be dual witnesses.
Be ye men, friends and be-mindful a J mid of strenuous
;
bravery.
Let it be *"
given to me rfa<
to grow-old if not (p)) magni-
immortals'* '.
worthy of toil.
as) hinds ?
(p)) pleasant.
02 it memorials to
Heap-up" a mound, and place-on
'
me*" and let my sister give (a. 2. imperative) her tears and
;
J
and I having applied" my body to your knees ***,
first,
gave"
'
you sweet (dear) endearments, and (to be joined to
the verb in-turn-received a l m them.
)
They lie dead near together, both the daughter and her
old father.
* m
See" (Behold), there is a mat lie-down on it. :
bloody.
The multitude stood-round""^ mid
weeping (crying).
im
I knew *
(was-familiar-with tf) the misfortunes and the
death of Agamemnon.
"' il du " 1
Ulysses and his illustrious son laid-down" their
'-'
arms within.
ginning. The meaning' of the simple seems to have been so much altered
that the compound almost became a distinct verb.
OTHER IRREGULAR VERBS. % 29
* mid their
After they had dismissed" desire of drink and of
mid
young-men crowned" (crowned-over) the bowls/
'
food,
But do you put-on * a kind (propitious) spirit.
Let each-man sharpen (a. 1. mid. imperative) well his
child ?
* m
Penelope, having placed" by them a very-beautiful
chair, was hearing the discourse of each.
many companions.
E very-one, who-has-cultivatecl (having cultivated" ^good-
qualities, is ashamed to become" * bad.
c 3
30 FIRST PART.
my bad fortunes ?
Come-on, take" 2 your sword.
Think (Seem) to do all things as if you are to escape- the-
Having learnt-by-enqiiiry'
!/
'
One brought" J
one gift and another another. (Say,
Another brought another gift).
d"'
Bring"
2
my dress to me as-quickly-as-possible.
2
After-that she ran" directly, and kissed" his head (pate),
1
He professed" * to be a teacher.
Ye cannot find (a. 2. opt. with ar) any other man more
wretched (trist).
SECOND PART.
GENITIVE.
They dwell about the city (Ionic).
DATIVE.
*
I recognise* him well ; for he has a broad shield about
Jus shoulders.
J have feared^" 1 " about fortunes.
your
My (Me?**) heart is tormented about the warlike Ulysses
(Ionic).
A bird sitting about the high (high-leaved) boughs of an
oak or fir. ...
ACCUSATIVE.
They sit about the solemn water of Pirene.
To be cast-out?^ amid the sand. (Aju<^>t
means here, so that
the sand surrounds the body).
tendants.) %
The things concerning the war.
acc
That day (art.), and the entire following night, they
were engaged""^ about these things.
Of the allies died ' (died-off) about 13,000 (the ten-thou-
sand and three-thousand).
Being (Having become"* '") about sixteen 07* years old.
About (or towards) dusk.
Being-distant about thirty""* stadia. ( That is, 3f miles.)
Am,
Radical meaning, Up or Upon.
DATIVES
*
They found" the loud-voiced son-of-Saturn sitting upon
the-top-of-Gargarus (the highest Gargams).
1 " Ava, governs a DATFVE only in the Icnic and Doric poets." Matthix.
Ava. O<J
ACCUSATIVE.
Having lifted" l
them on-high, he placed" '
them on a
tamarisk.
Weariness takes-hold-of him, creeping-upon (or over ; or
along ; or through) the fertile-soil of the vineyard.
He went" 2 (journeyed) through (av) the battle and through
the din of spears.
Having rode" his (the) horse with all his might (force),
'
he was present""*'".
I will unveil the hidden?^ (hidden-in) magic (Say, the
c 5
4 SECOND PART.
Av-i,
GENITIVE only.
One thing held against the other (one).
Hector went (a. 1. m. of tipi) against the glorious Ajax.
(i.
e. is
superior to) many people?'.
To exchange" m !
a mortal body for immortal glory. (Say,
immortal glory for a mortal body.)
I would choose (place : KO.V with present opt. middle) one
good man before all bad men.
Favor for favor. On-account-of these things.
We all- together entreat you in-behalf-of these children.
I shall reign instead-of him.
ATTO,
He piuP pa "
leapt (no augment) from his horses to-the-
ground.
6
Five-miles (forty stadia^ ") from the sea* e". (In this
" "
passage "from is to be placed, not before sea," but before
"
stadia.'")
To fight on-horse-back (from horses.)
To have done dinner. (Say, Teveadaifrom dinner.)
The third day dat after the sea-fight.
sophy.
To live on plunder.
Your (Say, The"""* from you.)
opinion.
Envy proceeding from the chief men.
From a love of justice.
From no crafty intention.
" From the open," in the neuter.)
Openly. (Say,
Having-their-own-laws according-to the alliance.
To be appointed archons aec by-means-of beans.
A constitution in which the governors are chosen accovd-
by the men-of-the-adverse-party.
Am,
Radical meaning, Through) so as to separate.
GENITIVE.
If the-^" straight lines
1
AG, DB, pass (go) through the
centre
To proceed through a hostile country. " hostile " in
(Put
the feminine ; y>/ being understood.)
He was lying extended" ' m the cattle human
among ; eating
flesh (picces-of-meat contracted) ard drinking pure milk.
:
He ordered" *
(arranged) Tarquin to govern them for life.
He witnessed" !
this to the end.
(appointed) just.
We figured'"to ourselves*" ten-thousand other fears in
1
*/"
Pre-eminently-above others.
ACCUSATIVE.
Neither was the king able'^^to speak through ill-health"''.
For we have neither shoes through the brazier, nor armour
through the cobbler.
He was respected'**' for his fidelity.
38 SECOND PART.
by av with a. 2. indie.)
Etc, EC:
Radical meaning, Unto, To.
ACCUSATIVE only.
Greeks
I was^ (sprang-up) a happy man in-other-respects except
in-regard-to my daughters.
The blood shed'"' (the poured-ouf) for the remission of sins.
Oppressed"
l
^ to the last neu/ degree.
(ended).
We were sitting feasting-on very-large pieces-of-meat
*
(contracted) and delightful wine to the setting* sun.
40 SECOND PART.
Toward evening. For ever.
rf
I will give you <*a goat, which-has-brought-forth-t\vins,
to milk thrice (itp-to-thrice).
2
They seized-on the triremes and destroyed 3 l
in-all (
the
all) up to two-hundred.
Very-fine bulls were led""^" to be sacrificed to Jove
orf
(dot.) by fours.
GENITIVE only.
Stones out-of which they make statues ar'. . . .
fice.)
To go-to-war (war) after peace, and to agree"
*
again after
war.
After the sea-fight.
We-received the report some-time-ago.
Of old. (From ancient, -)(p6vov being understood.)
Shut-out^ by land and by sea.
DATIVE only.
dat
There ) breast a certain inflexible mind.
is in p/
your (you
There is a great (much) army iu the park.
caves.
In (or at) Carthage. Near Lacedseraon.
At this time or '. At which time.
To be in fear. To be in a rage.
To mid in a " 1
make-light-of (make lighf" ).
it all-the-same (in an masc
Judging?' equal ) to worship or-
not. (Put "and" before "to worship.")
To combat equipped with small-bucklers and javelins and
bows.
PT
Oh-that might be always adorned with garlands.
I ?"
( If)
It is now in your-power (you) either to enslave" ''(enthral)
Athens or to free" J
it.
Whele ar
The-whole ( the) matter rests with Triballus '.
before done" * p.
Eiri,
GENITIVE.
The women bear burdens'"* on their (the) shoulders.
A broad-leaved olive at the head (highest part) of the
harbour
Standing?' (perf. poet.) near the doors (Ionic).
To stay" by the '
river.
DATIVE.
In-our-power. ( Upon us.)
To be under-the-direction-or-guidance-of soothsayers.
To do any thing under-the-direction-of any-one.
Woman is-by-nature (springs-up* *) prone to tears.
nfut
As-far-as-depends-on (The upon) me.
ar '
Megacles sent-a-herald""^ to Pisistratus*" to enquire
whether he would choose *" *""
(be-inclined) to have his
dat
(him ) daughter"
1"'
as a ^v>fe, on-condition-of-obtaining
(upon) the sovereignty.
Who will perfect (KE v with a. 1. opt. jiEolic) this work for
me liat
on-the-condition-of (upon) a great present ? There
shall be for himrfn/ a sufficient reward : for I will give him a
carriage and two horses having-large-necks.
For how-much would you " would "
? (Express by dv
with opt. of fioyXofiai.)
You have given*/" a-large-sum (much money) to Prota-
eut
cities"
1
"', and in-order-that-you-might (upon the" : with
(upon) utility ?
Eiel. 45
painting.
To pride-oneself upon any thing.
They seize-on Peripolium which was by the river.
ACCUSATIVE.
To mount on a horse.
The crocus-vested Aurora diffused-hereelf(wasf/z^ttsec?in1? } !/
neut
to one entering * dat (go'mf/-
gold one lay""^ on the right?'
into) into (eg) the temple. (Put this sentence in the Ionic
form.)
For a time. (That is, For some time.)
For two days. For five-miles (forty stadia).
Kara,
GENITIVE*
2
Phoebus Apollo went" (journeyed) down-from the tops
of Olympus, holding a bow and a quiver covered-on-every-
side.
traying).
There was much praise given to the city.
(Properly,
castDOWN on it.)
Which was the greatest praise (encomium) as-regarded
you*'.
If (If-altogether) you seek any one thing which-applies-
to (according-to) all. . ..
ACCUSATIVE.
After-that they sat""^ (without augment) down-on couches
and chairs in-order.
camp.
To lie down towards the west.
Lacedaemonians.
Whose ( Of whom) renown is extensive through Greece
and the-middle-of-Argos (middle Argos).
On the voyage.
The wrath (fury) of Talthybius was rekindled" '
during
the war of the Peloponnesians and Athenians, as the Lacedae-
monians say.
tci)
1600 (six-hundred and thousand) years at-the-most.
To travel by land and by sea.
To be governed by (or with) force.
In (or by) turn. With propriety.
Kara. 49
The virgins came (were-preseni) with clamor'*"' and weep-
ing to their (the) fathers, who wept-in-turn""^ seeing (mark-
1
ing :
Ionic) their (the) children ill-used*/.
Through (ia) this plain**" the-Hyllus-and-other-rivers
(rivers and others and Hyllus) flowing burst-together into
embogues into (EC) the sea near (down-in) the city Phocaea.
"
(Put 2e after called.")
The strangers and the-rest-of-the-company (the other
them).
arr
Xenophon outdid (surpassed**) the simplicity of Plato
Gr. Ex. D
50 SECOND PART.
in his-own-peculiar-simplicity (simplicity** the according-to
himself).
The Aradians were governed-by-kings'" ^ in-a-manner- 1
The tendencies
which-are-peculiar-to-or-which-belong-to
(according-to) the body
He is fair as-regards (according-to) the body, but is on-
"
Every month everyday. :
(Express every" by KCLTO..)
1
Karck is here used like Per in Latin : the meaning of which word KrA
bears in some of the preceding sentences.
Mtra. 51
Hera,
Radical meaning, Close with.
GENITIVE.
(Put this sentence in the Doric form.) O Health,
eldest/6 "1 (or most venerable) of the happy-Gods, may I
is
any grace (beauty) either of wealth, or of children (off-
springP ), or of empire, or if there is given any other delight
1
DATIVE.*
The eagles'*"
'
were flying?', along-with the blasts of the
wind.
I, wretched""* (unable-to-stand) woman, was queen among
the Idsean women**' and conspicuous among the virgins.
I now your?' place-of-assembly, desirous of return^
sit in
1 " MST&
is found with a DATIVE in poetry only." Valpy, Gr. Gr.
D 2
52 SECOND PART.
I will eat him "
last (remotest} after his associates.
Apollo killed im tf (utterly. slew] the pilot of Menelaus, as
he was holding"" the rudder of the running Agoing-fast)
ACCUSATIVE.
There a monstrous man dwelt- within'" *^ who fed""^ 1
his
cattle alone afar-off; nor did he hold-any-intercourse'" ^ 1
f
aptly in matters in
J ir>
(had not been estranged) judging"
jphich**" he was"?' im tf
previously inexperienced.
Whom I love most next-to you.
A city acc the richest in (ei>) Asia 01"'
next-to Babylon.
Go (Arrive"
2
) after the Trojans and the Greeks.
Having sent" **" for a carriage {horse
l
vehicle).
As when some stable-horse, having burst" '
its bond,
holds head (pate) on-high, and
its its knees (Poet.) bear""*
it
easily to the usual-abodes and to the pasture of the
mares.
The women tell the thing at-night to-their-husbands, and
on (or with) the next day the rumor went""^ (progressed)
1
Ilapa,
GENITIVE.
Bacchus (BO.K-XZVQ, t^c)? dwelling-in Thebes acc the mo-
ther-city of the Bacchanals by-the-side-of the damp (wet)
streams of Ismenus
m a knife from-beside
Having drawn-out
l
his thigh. . . .
DATIVE.
To (
ce subjoined to the substantive) the place-of-assembly
006
ACCUSATIVE.
He walked a> pensive by-the-side-of the shore of the
much-resounding sea.
When (rjfj.os)
the sun set" *
and darkness (obscurity)
came, they-laid-themselves-down2 by the cables of the ship
(Ion.).
They led Psammenitus to Cambyses. (/. e. by his side.)
The two went*" ""^ back towards
1'
the ships of the
Greeks.
The affairs of the Greeks came (became** m*a ) to this"* " 1
pass.
Syracuse
07"'
came to so-great"6"*
a pitch of danger.
At the very moment of the commission of the acts of in-
1
The origin of Sri (ify in this phrase will be clear from this sentence .-
in-comparison-with himself.
Achilles despised a l
danger""* in-comparison-with doing
natt
(the to endure l
) any thing disgraceful.
He becomes, if-compared-with (himself by-the-side-of)
a<
himself, more apt every day *. (/caret)
We-must survey and examine each"'"* *>
l
of the things-
formerly time).
If I alone were-in-danger imtf (ran-a-risk), I should have
the-side-of) nothing.
2 OT
Having regarded" (placed) his-own (the of himself)
neut
safety as (by-the-side-of) a slight matter. . . .
1
I have chosen to make this and the
following constructions depend
on the COMPARATIVE nature of irapit; though the note in
p. 57. may
suggest a more correct account of them.
D 4
56 SECOND PART.
neut
Let-us-not-depart so much (by so-much ) from the
A
few votes more and he would have been degraded
ignominia notaretur."
2 to the last sentence, this should run
According :
Hap" c\lyas tyfiQovs
OTK riTi/juefhi. By a few votes he was NOT degraded. That is, It wan
only by the absence of a few votes more that he was not degraded.
Hapa. 51
be token-aside* *.)
They very nearly got the victory. (Say, They came within
neut
little
of victory. )
Having suffered & mid P* some-things (the*"" indeed), and
(but) having-gone-near-suffering (Say, within nearly hailing
arrived" 3 to suffer " 2 ) others (the.)
He was very far from taking the city. (Say, He came
within much neitt
to capture the city a 2 m acc
.)
He has fallen very far short of the successes of the past
If there is
any other idea of learning besides (or beyond)
these fem
1
In this sentence the following constructions are proposed : 1. E\66i>-
TS jSpax" irapa (from) rov e\fiu. 2. E\66vrfs irapa (up to) jSpax" (a short
distance from) TOV t\fiv. These constructions may be applied to the pre-
ceding sentences.
D 5
5S SECOND PART.
by our"^ negligence.
For why ? All despond on-account-of him.
Old-men and youths going-together alternately (by-the-
matc
side-of one ).
Inflicting*
1'"*
one-on-the-other** stroke for stroke.
acc
Every-other-day. (Day beside day.)
Ilept,
GENITIVE.
He m near
(Trap) him a variegated couch, that
J
placed"
(to-the-end-thoi) he might question ?' him about his absent
father.
nevt
I do-not-know-at-all-what (have not-any-one ) to do
about the man.
He asked '
experienced
art
men what (whichever) he-
i
Ilepi in this sense seems allied to irtpo and iripctv.
D 6
60 SECOND PART.
people?*.
I am-afraid to speak" '
to (opposite-tof1) you on-account-
of my inveterate (primitive) dread of-you.
ACCUSATIVE.
Phoenicians dwelt""^ about (or round) all Sicily"*.
Having sunk"
*
about seventy ships, they erected" '
a
trophy.
1
The middle of the portion of time between day-break and noon.
Hpo. 61
About three-thousand.
Having come (driven :pf. Attic) to (towards) somewhere
about his eightieth year.
Somewhere about a thousand in number. (Say, Thou~
sand about somew/iere the number acc .)
GENITIVE onlyi
earth).
GENITIVE.
Towards the south.
tations always.
Each man will make (a. 1. JEolic opt. with av) his (the)
choice of (about) his (the) mode-of-life*'" according-to his
turn-of-mind.
citizens.
To be courted by all.
It was confessed^ even by an adversary.
Impelled by his crimes he beat-out"
'
footh-his-eyes.
Ill-in-mind in-consequence-of his (the) misfortune, he
dat
imprecates most unholy curses on his children .
For what (of-ivhat-kind) fault am I undone ?
DATIVE.
Towards (or near, just by) the city.
He is whole-in-limb, free-from-disease. fortunate-in-his-
children, and handsome ; and, if further in-addition-to l
these
be calledP-f happy.
He is
young, and besides being-young (the young
neut
) he
is delicate and fair.
At-the-same-time-that-he-had-a-bad-disposition (besides
the malignity) he was also ambitious-of-fame.
We
were engaged in this disputation 07 "'.
{Properly, We
had our minds bent TOWARDS it-)
I am wholly (whole) taken up with this"'*' business.
They said (affirmed 2 ) that he acc had long got-up" "* and 1
ACCUSATIVE.
Look" '
1
For in going TOWARDS an object, we go to ADD or join ourselves to it.
* See the
examples on the Accusative.
66 SECOND PART.
You
say that the Nymphs
acc
(Nymphs the) of Achelous,
and Pan the son of Mercury, are more skilful in-respect- W
to composing orations than Lysias*"*" the son of Cephalus.
To speak for (properly, in regard to) the best""*
' m
Having stated-what-was-false (lied" ) with-a-view-to
his interest.
Complete in virtue.
proper.
To live conformably-to another (i. e. another's desires or
rules).
I wish to speak *
(remark) the truth (the true
pl neut
) and
'
Properly, it concerns us, it belongs to us, it is our property, it is in
our power
67
not according-to your 07 "'
words (i. e. not taking your words
for a pattern).
Lest (In-order-that-not) he should take * "^ the thing as
(towards) an insult.
To fly with the wind (blowing).
We frame-our-thoughts (have obtained*?? the disposi- *'
4 m
have perished (utterly-perished" ), if-you-compare-it-with
the size of the city.
The wisest""* of men will appear"1 "* an ape as-compared-
with (towards) God.
yjjgacc pi p '.
in-comparison-of you
mid more-memorable (Ionic)
Egypt presents (holds-out-to )
works than (towards) any (every) country (territory).
He dared" *
to praise" 1
my-actions (me) as-compared-with
(towards) yours (the your actions).
The generals of the Athenians consulted""^ in-the-mean-
while with-a-view-to (or conformably to, on occasion of) the
Suv,
DATIVE only.
I have now come down 2
here with my ship and (as-well-
as) my companions (Jfrapoe).
Hecuba together-with the captive women has utterly-
destroyed" me.
J
As-for-the-present,let-it-be-saidwith-the-blessing-of(z0iVA)
God, things-go-well-with-me.
GENITIVE.
Him (The) he hit" *
(threw) in his head*"* over the ear.
The sun moving over us and our (the) roofs. . . .
ACCUSATIVE.
Their sacrifices are these. When
(If-conseguently) they
have begun-with (begun-from : a. 1. m. subj.) the ear*"
1
GENITIVE.
He dwells under the earth (land).
Bucephalus
art
died a J (ended) under his wounds.
To die 02 (die-off) by (t. e. under the hands of) the
enemy P'.
To be banished J
by the judges.
Were you not yourself (self) made-to-bend a !
by op-
pressive Cupid ? (Express the negative interrogation by
tip OVK.)
To be held in (tv) esteem by any-one.
To report (tell) any thing by messengers.
To forbid * you by-means-of heralds your ar/ paternal
hearth.
auspicious sound?
Go (Arrive"*) to Athens ", under fair auspices.
I was nourished" l
under fair expectations.
earth (land).
" '
this child from-under
Having dragged (young-one)
your protection (wings), I will kill him.
DATIVE.
A stool was under his feet.
They founded
l
a city at-the-foot-of (under) Ida"".
Close-to the city.
He beheld *
his companions subdued
2
under the hands
of Patroclus.
He died" 2
by the hand of his brother.
He taunted l
him for his low and ambiguous pleasures.
He said" these things under the-direction (direction the)
of Callicrates (i.
e. suborned
by him).
Being under-the-influence-of (under) those-in-power he
a '
spoke deceitful (double) things, speciously involving in
deceit bad words.
He could not bear""^ after (^tra) such (so-great) victo-
ries"" to be in-the-power-of (under) young men.
ar '
The instruments which-belong-to (the under) music and
which-belong-to the other arts
To dance to the lute.
^Eneas, whom (the) the divine Venus begat" a
from '
An-
chises. . . .
ACCUSATIVE.
Dwellings under ground.
Fearlessly reproaching those (the) under his authority
(hands).
To reduce (make mtd ) under himself.
To look-at (mark) any thing by the rays of the sun.
1
Properly, under.
Gr. Ex. E
74 SECOND PART.
About 1
the same time**.
WTTI),
in the sight of; tfa, without ; tTriirpoadE, before ; iaw,
t <TW, within, or in ; tva, where ; KCLTW, below ; :pv0a and
'
That is, close to. As in the preceding sentence :
They came to
Ilium.
2 the Latin Sub in Subalbus, Subtristis, &c.
Compare
Apa, fyc. "J5
OTTO), far from ; \apiv (i. e. Kara or Trpog ^aptv), for the
""^
Forty ships followed together-with him.
2iv is sometimes expressed :
Near you.
2. " " about" seems to be construed like
Apple, around,"
:
antyi
GENITIVE.
Let each-man, having looked (beheld 02 ) well about his
en
chariot, attend-to (care-about : imperative) the war^ .
ACCUSATIVE.
They shed' m^(poured) many warm tears around you.
3.. 'Eyyi/e, near to, is put with a dative :
ar
Lydda*""" being near-to Joppa '.
E 2
76 SECOND PART.
Alexander led a 2
(led-upon) the archers as towards (upon)
the river acc .
THIRD PAHT.
singular.
1
Many of these Rules are unavoidably anticipated in former passages
of this work, but the necessary directions have been given in them.
2 " This idiom is more
observed by the Attics than by the older writers
in the Ionic and Doric dialects. The latter often join the neuter plural with
a plural verb. The Attics also sometimes join the verb in the plural with
the neuter plural; especially, 1. when the neuter plural signifies living
persons ;
2. when the abstract is
put for the concrete, and animate crea-
tures, not things, are to be understood. But there are also, besides these
cases, numerous exceptions to the rule in Attic." Matthiip.
3 " As a noun of multitude
singular may be followed by a verb plural, a
neuter plural often taken in a collective sense, and followed by a
is
verb singular. Thus, when Homer says Aovpa fftarjirf, he means the col-
lection nf planks and timbers, of which the ships were constructed."
A dual nominative is
frequently joined with a verb plural.
Both say.
Let us both return" ' "P* from the glowing fire.
dual
These ( The ) came" 2 near (from-near), driving^^quick
horses.
The Latins say "in media arma" for ''into the midst of
E 4-
THIRD PART.
" " the end
ihe arms." So Ovid uses " imce caudce for of
the tail" The idiom is the same in Greek.
Into the middle of the river. (Say, Into middle the river.)
The top of the tail. (Say, The highest tail acc .)
2
undone), and (paternal) hearth was demolished"
my father's
da
(dug-up), and himself had-fallen (falls) near the altar '
2
which-had-been-raised-to-the-Gods, being slain" by (from)
ARTICLE. 81
gold.
He arrives at the city""* of-Eurytus (the Eurytean
acc
) :
* m
prayed-over" he dedicated" to the nymphs (Ionic) and
l
In this 4 "' neut case the city of Priam would (net) soon bend-
very-quickly.
ARTICLE. 83
behind.
Are there not some false, others true pleasures ?
Instead of one or both of the articles, the name is some-
times expressed:
The Mityleneans and Athenians warred""^; the one de-
manding-back the territory ; the-others (Say, Athenians,
dat
with proving by argument
2e), that-the-Trojan-territory-
dat
belonged not (not-in-any-way) more to the. JEo\ia,ns than
others"". .
C O t*.v 0$ i 0V fr* ,
-h
ries art .
I come to te\l part fut you these things which are particularly
(the) reproach
acc
which is honorable acc to me. (Properly,
Honorable is THE reproach
with which you reproach me.)
He spoke
& {composed)
not an (the) ignoble speech.
(the all)
.You shall call him off from such lengthy (the many)
en
speeches f .
( To call off, is a7ra\/\u<7<rw, w.)
What (What-kind-of) misfortunes do I, wretched art
man,
come to-announced parl !
1
Tiri; maybe constructed however, What is the (thing)? So in Plato :
gate.
had a
been mentioned in
former part of the icork.
But in-the-mean-while Strombichides arrives (comes-from)
dat
at (to) Samos with the eight ships already mentioned.
The used as referring, not to something
article is often
2
Whereby the Trojans were-enabled-to-hold-out (resisted* )
aec
the-more (even more) during the whole ten years of the
Trojan war.
2
Having abandoned" the'""" sailing to Chios'""' (acc.), he
" In
TH2A' drfp f}i(acrt/j.ov ; AAA' "HAE fjifVTOt fn^j \ey'. nouns," savs
" the Tb oVwa,
Matthia;, article is generally in the gender of the noun : <5
Future-repentance. His-will.
Hpa.yp.ara. is
supplied in sentence
the following : The
of the Thebans are-in-a-bad-state (has ill).
affairs
67
unfortunate -
.
*
It was difficult in those times 07 to find"
"'
those-who-were-
inclined (the pl being inclined) to govern.
Flatterers. ( The flattering^)
Philosophers. ( The philosophizing. )
My-mistress. (The my having obtainedX)
Badar' counsel is most bad to-him-who-counselled (r<p with
aor. l.part. of fiovXevu) it.
ar '
Imyself saw
2
(beheld) these iuines and those of them ;
(production) of Jove.
You will find, O men, all ready to succour me"*"', the per-
son who-corrupts (r<p with participle), the person who-does-
acc
ill-to (rw with participle) their (the of them) domestics ,
em
You, the-haier (the^ hating) ! you hate forsooth in
word ', but in deed
rfa rfa<
are-allied-with the murderers *' of
rogation by apa.)
The article is sometimes omitted:
It is all the work of the inventor (having invented"
2
).
the Athenians.
of adjectives.
Ye see (mark) me an unfortunate God chained through
acc
my (the) too-great (too-much) love of mortals.
It behoves us to contemplate these things only, and to
\Vhoever-happen-to-be-in-office.
Do not (pi) cringe-to him-who-happens-to-be-at-any-
acc 1
time-the-ruler .
in the Chersonesus.
a
The Syracusans raised (made-to-stand) a trophy on
l
" In Xen.
Cyrop. 6. 3. 6, 6 $1 cucoiffas ravra ftcdvovs n
fitvomas cnl ravrats -rats ffKoirais, o, TI av AEI Kaivbv dpuffiv, fayyf\\fiv,
ad is used in the sense of limited perpetuity, indicating something to be
done, so long as things remained in the stole referred to." E. H. Barker.
94- THIRD PART.
Pisistratus-and-his-troops.
Thrasybulus-with-his-soldiers.
Cecrops-and-his-assessors-in-judgment.
Sometimes it is supposed to be used to mark Hie person
:
only
Of Pittacus and Bias and the-Milesian-Thales (of t/u
The-companions-of-Archidamus.
Plato adds iralpoi :
acc
By (cara) himself' (That is, .
Privately.)
upon) me
neuf aec
As-far-as-lies-in
(The .
to) me
neut acc
As-far-as-concerns ( The .
As-far-at-least-as-it-regards me"* .
Minos art employed im& (used) Rhadamanthys ar (dative) as '
neu 'P l
garded (tke according-to) the-rest-of-Crete (the other
art
Crete) he employed Talus (dative).
ETvat is sometimes added at the end :
neut
As-far-as-regards ( The
00
according-to) him" .
As-far-as-lay-in TJie "** upon) them
acc
rara TO
( (That .
is,
ilvai CTT'
CLVTOVQ.)
persuasive.
The eyes of the soul of-most-men (of the many). . .
carding-wool)
jective.)
The other (ET epoc) thing. (Join as above.)
1
They hate your-unanimity. ( The unanimity the your? .)
their-long-walls (the walls the of them-
1
They finished
selves the long).
RELATIVE. 97
The other things vvhich-happen (the falling -out-tog ether)
e very-day. (Say, according-to each day".)
The- Athenian-people. (The people the of Athenians.)
Other instances occurred a little above. Sometimes tlie
(placed).
The relative in this construction sometimes precedes the
substantive :
the infantry ? f l
Gr. Ex. t
98 THIRD PART.
About (According -to) this time acc (art.) that (Say ov i. e.
You will
not resuscitate your (the) father from the common
(infin.) them.
ing noun :
opportunity of stating that the Latin Pono, which Clarke on Homer says
is
put for Po-sino, seems contracted from Post-sino, to lay aside.
Compare
Pomoerium and Pomeridies.
r 2
100 THIRD PART.
where he is.)
free-from-danger at-home.
There came immediately the information that the cities
*
So Plautus : Servum meum miror ubi 'sit. Cicero : Hac me ut confidam
faciunt.
AGREEMENT OF PERSONS. 101
are.)
When (-4*) it became notorious that he had committed
crime. he became" * m notorious
this'"'"' {When having-com-
of-men, so that you will have no fear at all lest they should
111
revolt. (So-that they ivill be not-in-any-way terrible- to you*
lest tJicy-should-revolt.)
singular.
Whom first, and whom last (latest) did Hector slay"
'
(slay-
M0UMfff
utterly ; ivithout -argument) and brazen Mars ?
bout*with-a-view-to-kill ^ Nicias.
There followed" *
vehicles and pages and the whole equip-
ment.
THE VERB " TO BE." 103
TJie knees and legs and feet of each beneath and their
hands and eyes were defiled ""^ with-sweat.
TJie back and broad shoulders dual of Euinelus were
warmed im tf with the breathing dat of the horses.
ar ' dual
Idomene consists-of (are ) two high hills dual.
There 2
nothing which (whichever) he did not promise" .
is
F 4-
104i THIRD PART.
Apollodorus commiserated"
'
(bewailed-thoroughly) every-
one"" of-those-who-were-present (of i/ie?'
being present).
"
T7ie Latins say, " Est ei nomen Tullii or " Tullio." The
Greeks put the name in the nominative.
To these (the) two mouths dat (i. e. of the Nile) are (lies,
in Ionic form) these names, to-one (the dat indeed) of them
'
(Ionic) the Sa'itian, to-the-other (but the* ) the Mendesiaa
Mouth.
The expression is varied by ovo^a or tTruvv^iav iyti with
a nominative :
"What appellation have (has) Hippias and Periander re-
O Jupiter"
06
and O Sun"01* who lookest-upon all things.
YouTJiis) Apollodorus the Phalerian, will you not wait-
(
about here ?
. . .
.Menelaus, to you I say these things.
. . . .O Phoebus, to thee may these things bcP' agreeable.
You say altogether well. Socrates, to you
acc
now
(already) must-be (opt. with, or) my (the) speech directed.
(Here Se is placed
fifth ivord. Say "0 Socrates".)
Instead of au It, Homer has arup av :
How is
(has) the place in regard to timber-for-ship-build-
f en ?
ing
The Athenians ran-forth-to-help im^ as-fast-as-they-could-
run (as of feet they had).
Here the verb t'^w is omitted :
Rush-ye, as-fat-as-you-
can-run (in-what-way of feet).
As quickly as each could. (Say, As each of quickness
had.) k
F 6
108 THIRD PART.
2 towards great-
(respected) by-an-advance (to-the-fore-part )
ness (Ionic).
am - m
To-such-a-pitch of dread I arrived" (come-from).
eu' acc
They came (came-tog ether"
2
)
to this" pass with respect
to distress (necessity).
Some have come (arrived: pf. mid. Attic) into such"'"-
(this) a state in respect of madness, that (so-that) ....
They were in this state in regard to preparation.
1
The author of the notes to Matthiae explains this phrase on other
"
grounds Tlpoow means forward, \. e. to the fore part ; and hence natu-
:
rally takes a genitive, like other adverbs of place. IIoD eori TTJS aperrjs
p7j.ua, &c.) of madness. And in the preceding rule on us, ovru, &c. e'x
with a genitive, &>s may have a reference to its original form ols, ovrw to
its
original form ovrif (i. e. rovrtf), &c. ;
and a substantive understood
and agreeing with it
(In these STATES of, In such a STATE of, &c.) may
be the real government of the genitive. But I have chosen to follow
Matthise here :
though among the prepositions I have explained it the
other way.
* " That is, rt/j.ui'Tai ficrre carrovs (TOW ayaOoefrfovs) fs rb irp6<r<a
art
of this unfortunate girl.
To be-in-haste (speed) with respect to the battle (Mars).
The morning forwards ^ts in respect of a journey (way),
and forwards us in respect also of work.
I was bruised" 2 as to my (the) head.
Bruised a *
as to their (the) sculls.
He was horribly fractured" 2
(Attic) as to his (the) head.
You are (tVXfo, for ETreXeo, eirlXov, from irlXopai) deceitful
in regard to your discourse?'.
consuming fire.
('YTTO may here be supplied ; and perhaps
in the next sentence also.)
To set-fire-to 01 '
the door-frames by means of consuming
fire.
mine).
She passes (crosses) from her house?', either from hearing
dat
(hearkening'""") about her son or by chance .
concerning me (this
body).
GENITIVE. Ill
With t/ie
ellipse of TTf.pl
with a genitive may be understood
also the following phrases :
(A bird is
supposed to speak.)
kind**'), are"^ a
good to all animals.
others.)
It behoves a (the) commander to be expert-in-prepara-
successory to groans.
Many of these adjectives may be viewed as substantives ;
1
It must be noticed that the verbs in this and the following rules for
GENITIVE. US
I wish to be ignorant rather than wise in regard to evils.
battle.)
Instructed (Informed) in war.
is supplied.)
If they are-inexperienced (have unskilfully) in the other
things.
Remember" m ye your impetuous
1
(fast) prowess.
Thetis did not forget im ff (\j/0o/ucu) the injunctions of her
son.
Do not (pi) remind a ' "^ me of evils.
my ari
blessed Gods.
Unless one (any-one) should not (not-either) have-any-
care op' for parents, or (not-either) children, or (not-either)
the genitive are often attended with the common and proper case, the ac-
cusative.
114 THIRD PART.
"*
If you have neglected^ your (the) mother in any
thing.
Young men
dal
young r
l
care (Say, It-is-a-care* ) for exer-
cises and pipes and revellings.
What-have-I-to-do-with (What to me dat : "/nc'Xa" being
understood) strife ?
a l
The-city-has-regretted (Say, It has-been-a-regret to the
daf often before-now the which-have-been-
city ) judgments
2 mid
given (the having become ) with (in-company-with)
6"
anger*" and not (ju)) with proof.
art
Repentance on account of the expedition.
Let him be-attentive (imperative) to the sowing.
Why do I spare (i. e. am careful about) my life (soul) ?
1
Mt'Aet is used also as a personal verb : 'AAAouw a'AAoj
v (nf\et,
Eurip.
GENITIVE.
of the market.
Destitute of friends. Bereft of thee.
respect to i
acc
body
Will you set (send-out) me free in regard to the charge of
murder (blood) ?
As-many-as were filled-up-to-the brirn""^ already with de-
pravity.
The city was-burdened'
7
"^ neither (not) with causes nor
causing-many-tears ....
A house wanting servants (assistants).
i
Demosthenes uses Ka.6apbs with r<5.
GENITIVE. 117
Cyaxares sent'"
^ to Cyrus" cc requesting (asking-far) him
1
,
02
to endeavor to come (arrive).
Persians, I have convoked a l
You?'', stripped
" J
of such allies, shall remember?""' *01*-''"'
art
(or shall be reminded of ) mj words.
health).
These last verbs are found also with awo or e/c after them :
Pausanias, having freed" Greece art from the Medes .... l
Thee loosed" 1
f art from these chains ....
struggles.
Yourself (SelfSem ) and your (the) sister shall not escape 6'"*
"
(roll-away) from the worst (most bad) doom. ( Put and
"
the in one word.)
art
Libya .
(woe).
They are kept-under/rom being-disobedient (TO tnreideiv).
The husband was lying in his chamber pl having ceased ,
despotism
art
was a thing more welcome than
(before) freedom.
Whoever thinks a friend to be of-more-importance than
(instead of) his (the of himself) country, him I value-not.
The genitive is put with all words which imply the idea
of a comparative.
Arion acc, a harper second to none of those (the) then
living (being).
Being interior (posterior) to no-one in substance dat and
in family.
The Grecian array is
many-times-greater than ours (the
our).
First (The first he took-away 02 (took from) one part
neut
),
(lot) out-of all""" the sum; and after this"" part he took-
""^ the double-""" of \t fem and the third
away (tooh-from) ;
as the first.
It is
disgraceful that the soul should be overcome inf
by
gain, anger, pleasure, pain.
To be inferior ( To be left-by) to any-one.
GENITIVE. 121
He came-too-late-for a '
the battle. (See the second sen-
fence of this Ride.)
"2 TO PI
Very-soon you may become-superior-to (with ay)
the power (ability) of the king.
You surpass (are- superior -to :
Poet.) all women in \ook acc
and in size.
" "
Hence verbs signifying To " rule or " govern take a
genitive.
You reign-over Tenedos (Poetic) with-a-strong-hand.
You came 2 reigning-over Sparta, not having-power-
.
over us.
A commander governs (conducts) an army and the pilot
governs sailors, and God the world, and the mind the soul,
and prudence (intelligence) the prosperity of (about) life
arl
(acc.)
king of rule-over 11
the Medes, thy-people (the* of
yourself), and bear-to-see us governing those whom (wJtom-
allogether) we do govern.
Clearchus acc, who-was-at-the-head-of the state (things
thtn)
Periander"""' reigned-over
im & Corinth. (Tvpavrevw "I
Gr. Ex. G
122 THIRD PART.
'
Illyrians.
To have-the-mastery-over fear and passion.
To be master-over sleep.
The good-for-nothing manikins are powerless-against all
Subdued-by labor.
Let there not (//>/) spring-up"*6 -7
one who shall be*"' r
To " on the
Verbs, signifying obey," take the genitive
same principle, as the verbs To "
command," fyc.rule,"
"
(imperative) in-a-manner-worthy
of the injustice.
That the bad acc man and the good man should be iudged-
art
wovthy '"''of like
recompenses
They purchase their (the) wives (women) from (beside)
thoir (the) parents*'"" for a great-deal-ot'-money.
(breath).
He released (loosed l
) themybr a ransom ?
l
.
pay.
Nor have bartered a m their
(the) good-will towards
'
to
art
.... Whether ( Whether-of-the-tivo) virtue is know-
ledge, or a thing distinct from knowledge.
Man seems to me to differ (bear-apart) from the other
animals.
This is no-other-than (not other instcad-of) your child,
old -man.
"S
Having convicted P' Cleon of bribery (bribes) and theft.
He accused" 1
acc
before (under) the people on a charge of death
These judge cases of death.
G 3
126 THIRD PART.
your right-hand.
I supplicate you on account of this woman.
Having
d
supplications to offer to you "', father (Say, O
ar '
father), mys3lf for myself and for my auxiliaries.
I imagine that my
art
father ace would offer (stretch-forth :
GENITIVE. 127
"
Verbs signifying to " begin take a genitive, governed by
irepl,
with respect to. Or, they hare reference to the govern-
ment of verbs signifying to "rule, govern, head" <^e. 1
ar '
(began) freedom to all Greece*""'.
acc
) them.
'
\\nrr\s dpx.(rat, The children begin life with sorrow. ToC fjjj' marks the
continuance of the condition which has commenced ;
curb XWTJS the
feeling, which is the first in the condition thus commencing." Matthias.
G 1-
128 THIRD PART.
nr
customs-of'-life
-'
as-hurt (hurting dat) both the body and the
soul
That which is wont to happen (fall-against) to those-
men from men ) who-succeed (succeeding
art dat
(the ) in life,
home.
Few out-of many were saved" '.
The good among men ar '.
understood.)
After the battle acc those of the enemy (enemies) who were
taken" J
last the same things.imtf
(adverb) reported
There is not one-man (mortal*""^) who (whosoever) is
free.
02
Having demolished the part of the wall where (dat.
sing. fern, of oc) the pile-of-earth lay-against""^ (wasfalling-
""^
against) they introduced
it, (brought-in) the earth.
.... That the Athenians'*"' would not have (be fati "f) in
GENITIVE. 129
acc
the narrow-place either (not-and) a sailing-round-the-enemy
or (not-and) a sailing-through-the-enemy,which ""* to
trusted""^ (believed).
02
They left (left-down) their vessels at Coressus a town
of the Ephesian /em territory. (But the name of the country
is generally placed first, as in the following sentence :)
The army of the Peloponnesians went (came-from a 2 m ) to
CEnoe aec a toivn of the Attic fem territory.
There died a 2
of the commanders Etesilaus
(died-off)
1
(Attic).
A wheel of the class of earthen art
ones. ( That is, An
earthen wheel.)
Oil-cruets acc of the class of round art (rotund) ones.
02 an axe ar
Having taken of the kind of ship-building
He
wished""^ to be one of those-who-remained (the re-
maining) at home.
Being one of the council.
It is a shameful thing.)
It would be (opt. with dv) in us a despicable thine/
neut 1
(some-one of the despicable* ).
Mellon, one of the Thebans who-fled (part.pf. mid.) to-
Athens. . . .
(remained-over).
Of the two cliffs (" The two cliffs" in the nominative)
the-one (the indeed) rises (mounts) to the wide heaven occ,
but the other cliff you will observe (discover) to be more
low (humble).
They are-conscious that those- who-have tyrannised""
(the having tyrannised &) before them have been taken-off p/,
some** (the indeed) by their parents *", others (but the) by
their sons, others (but the) by their brothers, others (but the)
scribed^?
Will ye not with-as-much-haste-as-possible exile (eject)
him to-one (someivhither) of the deserted islands ?
Having opened
To remit ones anger.
To slacken one's (the) step (approach).
feeling
6""'
and in the other approved art feelings ; but / hare
art
olserved prudence and justice art to-be (being neut P ) l
the pe-
culiar possessions of the honorable and good. " and
(Join
good".)
Do you really also, Pylades, take-a-part in this murder?
I will undertake-with me<i you
rfa '
this danger.
A good
1
helper-^" in the labors in peace, and a steady ally
in the deeds of war
dangers.
In which* 8" things there-is-no-participation-with 1
the de-
properly appertained
1
to any-one'*'" (no one) "-^ pr who (ivho-
She tasted" l
the draught.
(cast-at) me ?
oak.
I persevere-in the same opinion (the opinion the same).
A great lake borders-on (properly, holds on ivitli) the
monument.
To be-earnestly-attentive-to one's (the) safety.
So-as not (/j) to meddle-with (handle) these things con-
neut
trarily-to justice"" (the just ).
more.
He lets-go
mid
) the spear (wooden-spear).
(abandons
dat
I advise
(drive-towards) you not (p/) to let-go
mid of Ladle's nor of Nicias.
(abandon )
acc mid
Deserting (Casting-forth ) our allies
Aiming-at the boar, he misses that**" (the) indeed, but hits
en
(lights-upoii) the son" ofCrresus.
If (In-case) I do not (p/) err" 2 "lbJ (miss) in opinion. (In
this and in the former sentence irepl may be supplied. The
ellipses before stated will explain the constructions in the
wealth).
These are (have spnmg-up a 2
) distinguished among mortal
men for a brave-spirit
rf
"'.
GENITIVE. 137
Two men P', eminent among the others. . . .
War ar '
is not the business of weapons so-much-as of money
(expense).
To (The neut ) be-willing
1
and to (the neut) have-a-sense-of-
perous-as-possible.
Sometimes with irpoe with a genitive :
"" d
I have thought ?f that such ar' deeds acc are" 2 ir>f
(become)
not in-the-power-of every man.
It is the-characteristic-of (^-poc) a woman to be haughty
acc
(elevated) in her heart .
To be f en old.
thirty years
Being
pl in-esteem (of word) with (at-the-hands-of ) the
1
Hence e<r8\bs is brave, from e6f\cu, fd\u. 5 is added, as in eV
GENITIVE. 139
t/iem.)
Is it not great-disgrace (great evils) to hear these things
from-slaves (at-the-hands-of bondmen) ?
having taught"
1
) mortals to hear reasons from (at-the-side-
Hear '
my opinion.
It has been proved ^ how (as) justly your
""'
citizens
"
Words of " descent and birth are put in the genitive
Announcing
/fem
<Ae dreams which-were-sent-by (V/ie) Aga-
memnon %en from the shades
'
'
1
Thus twriAeyew Ttvbs will not express to contradict any one ;
things.
With the last may be compared the following construc-
tions :
^magistracy).
144 THIRD PART.
acc
Having sailed- wi thout
*> l
the Hellespont .
l
"
(f>ofjiai
came to have the general notion of " hating or " de-
spising" and so took the accusative. So airoTpi-^o^ai below
Neither (Not-eit/ier) turn-away-from the truth (the true neia '\
6
".
through (by) anger*
To Pittheus were born" 2m (sprang -from} three blameless
children. (EK is either EK Hirdl^Q or ei; yuyairac.)
He saw (beheld) children born a 2 m (sprung-from} to them " rf(
all.
',
"
to depend on m-d, dmvn at")
GENITIVE. 145
liair cutsC
TJie body (frame) of Capaneus is
smoking on the lad-
der*"" Pl .
In what (TTOC) place ? ( That is, Where ?)
In which place. ( That is, Where.)
In the house of Jove. say, At St. PauFs.)
(So we
To return (go-back-from) to the house of his father.
To the abode of Orcus.
Gr. Ex. H
146 THIRD PART.
In the time of full (highest) night.
He oppressed
l
us in the former years.
He will come in a short (gradual) time.
For six years unwashed. (For the space of.)
2
It-did-not-happen to them to see" (behold) their-country
for many years.
He has not sojourned^ here for (or since; i. e.
EC) many
years.
Since what (of-what-kind) time has the city been laid-
waste*^?
Within thirty days from this day"
7"'
lel-him-go-away (go-
off: a. 2. imperative).
Within thirty days.
Roxana, a virgin-of-wonderful-beauty.
There followed""^ him"*"' dragons, enormous-reptiles.
Give 2
me (i. e. to me) bows. Tell" me (i. e. to me.)
'
Well-disposed to any-one.
He does the things which are very advantageous to us.
It is hard (difficult) for a father and mother to be be-
reaved" p (stripped-of) of their children.
*
(in-the-way)
to us.
ar
Old-age now is-a-hindrance (obstructs
' ]
) to me.
Like (Similar) to any-one.
To obey any-one. (That is, To be obedient TO. Milton
" Yet TO their
has :
general's voice ttiey soon obey'cL")
2
Serving Phrebus.
Neither (Not-and) trusting (confiding? ) to 1
all, nor dis-
trusting all.
3
stranger, remove out-of-the-way for a king?*.
arl
Do-thou-old-man-who-puttest-me-out-of ( Your old-
arf
age which puts-me-out-of) my speech*"", retire
, (go-
a 2 dat
from ) out-of-the-way for our (the us ) words.
Jove the son-of-Saturn has subjected (subdued) me to
Peleus (Ionic) the son-of-/Eacus. ('Tiro is supplied in the
folloioing sentence:)
1
EMiro5i'a>and (vox\f<o govern also the accusative.
2 "
harpevftv, to serve
;
to pay honor to the Gods by offerings in the ;
first sense takes the dative ; and in the second, though rarely, the accusa-
tive.
Eurip. El.: TiVa ir6\tv, riva. 3' citKov \arpV(ts ; Iph. T. : 'Ev6a ray
Sfas anfyiiroKov Kovpav Aorpeua.'. It is found however in the first sense
with\he accusative also." Matthix.
3
Tvpdwois does not depend on eKiroSir, whicl) governs a genitive
148 THIRD PART.
a
The former (formerly) things you did not well advise
(commend) me
rfa
'.
(
TJiat is, TO me.)
do not advise (commend) you dat to wish (will) him great
evils. (That is, I do not advise TO you this thing.)
We intend to advise (counsel-together) you da ' respecting
those things at which*'" it behoves the younger men to aim.
He ordered" the heralds da to convoke the Greeks. (That
! '
1 Not however by any means ALWAYS. As the verbs, which take a ge-
nitive, often admit the proper case, the accusative ;
so do those which take
a dative. "
The verbs To order, To exhort, as irpo<na.TTtiv, firiTt\\f<r6cu,
irapcuvtij',iraptyju^v, ira.paKt\(veff8ai, vTroTidfffOai, &c., regularly take the
dative. KeAevew however takes not only the dative in the sense of To exhort,
but also the accusative with the infinitive. Thus also irpoordrrfty. On the
other hand, vovOereiv, TraooKaXtiv, -npyrpeirfiv, irapo^vvtiv, irapopfuiv , &c.,
take only the accusative." Matthias. The latter verbs more directly ami
spontaneously lead the student to the accusative.
DATIVE. 149
" "
Hence verbs of ruling, governing, take a dative.
a
) no-other man (of
2
I-for-my-part have seen (secn-into
mortal who-has-met-with (having met-with ai ) a more
pl
)
odious fate (lot) than this**" man.
See (Mark) lest 2 mbJ the
you light-on" guards. (See
1
note. )
governed by vir6.)
1 "
TS.VTvyx&' flv > ffvvTvyx&'f 1 '', are found also with the genitive, for rvy-
<it>(w." Matthiae.
H 3
150 THIRD PART.
im Pf
They were displeased with his (the of him) inode-
of-life.
*
Ill-treating (Mai-treating) the dead man, she said-over"
him these neut words: Thee, according-as (Ionic) I threat-
1
The active \oiSopt<a usually takes an accusative.
DATIVE. 151
father.
buried.
These things many heard-equally-with'^^me.
Speaking-the-same-language with any-one.
Having-the-same-name with any-one. ( That is, a name-
sahe of any one.)
Brought-up-with any-one.
Having-a-common-boundary with any-one.
DATIVE. 153
To agree-with any-one.
To associate-with any-one.
So the to " accommodate to
verbs, oneself to, become,"
take a dative,
(sailing) ...... (
The dative is governed by the participle of
, xapio[jLai, fyc. Homer supplies rt/z>)r apvvp.evoi Me-
H 5
THIRD PART.
a l * ukj pi
divert you from your intentions.
,
,
You are noble-minded, as it appears to a-beholder (Jtaving
impossible.
I have honored" '
who-are-intelligent.
As it
appears to me.
As at-least it appears to me.
As-far-indeed-as it is right for me to judge '.
the-outside, was not too hot; but the"*"' parts within were
burnt""*' (blazed).
sailing sail-
waiting) here.
It was already the second day that-I-had-sailed (to me
sailing).
H 6
1-56 THIRD PART.
What time is it
since-the-boy-was-killed (to the boy
dat
put-an-end-to
&P "*) ? 1
a.re'"Sfrom Hercules
dat
to (ec) Amasis, has been shown M
before.
Thou hast made-thy-appearance (appeared-beforc" 2 f) to
me longing (regretting-the-loss-of) for it. ( That is, as I
had longed for.}
The celebrated son of Jove and Alcmene came" 3 late-
these things.
Xicias had expected what actually took place regarding
the Egestaeans. (Say, The neJ" pl about the Egestceans
en
is :
thought merely expletive
da to the king acc (Ionic), that
(Remark) for me
' '
Report"
I say these things.
2
Remember (remark: old form of infin.) for me,
to tell"
(the
neut
) that\ve
acc
men art are '^ one of the possessions of-the-
Gods (to the Gods : i. e. ovrwv).
Your paternal habitation. (Say, The paternal to you pl
habitation: i.e. / o5<ra.)
Of the paths of-the-Nile (to the Nile : i. e.
oveuv) the direct
one is this.
He had imnfa.
satrap's (to the satrap : i. e. TO ov] palace.
J
Jupiter gave" (made-to-attend) ito-their-race(fo them to
race : i. e. rw yevti rta OVTL afyiv).
Matthias understands here yivti to be in opposition to tr^iv ;
02
over) lifted-up (held-up) their hands.
Gods aec
Your mother often addresses-prayers to the that you
may return-back 02 to
your home
acc
alive (living).
alm the Gods and the heroes
Having prayed-to
So the verb to " look up to or on any one :"
Ofthis hind may be also a.vaarijva.i tivt, "to stand tip against
I conquered
*
Clytomedes with-the-fist, and in wrest-
ling / conquered Ancaeus who rose-up-against a 2 me
rfa '
conquered them.
It-behoves those who-inhabit (inhabiting) a great city to
wish to await mid the
greatest calamities and not (p/) to obli-
terate their (the) high-character.
"
1
It more commonly takes the accusative. Both constructions are
united in Eurip. Here. F. 1352 : Tats gems ox v<f>iffTarcu
ffvpQopais 7ctp
OuS' avSpbs c\i> Svvaiff vTroa-rrivai /Se'Xos." Matthite.
" These
verbs are often constructed with the accusative.
UpoaKvvtiv,
irpoffetiretv, trpoatytaveiv, irpoa-rrTvffcrcffOai, &c. govern ONLY the accusative ;
so that on the whole the idiom is to be carefully observed." Matthiae.
160 i
THIRD PART.
a *
Having gone-out-against the Athenians.
We wait at-home (in abodes), having been eager for-a-
me.}
They like to laugh-at the dead?'.
A kite ruled ""^ the Greeks* 6 " then and reigned""^ over
them. What 9 the Greeks ? Yes, and this kite, while
1
reigning, first taught" (fkowed-down) them to fall-down-
before the other kites. (A jocose sentence in Aristophanes.)
He took-the-votes-of a
the meeting. 1 l
He 2
cast around" your (Doric) hair p/ a prize.
" 2
They were-involved-in ( fell-about ; i. e.
fell among or
into, so as to be surrounded by) more and in greater evils.
Mars to Cadmus.
Our (The of us) mission was a - m
(became) not by-way-of
ar '
(imto) contradiction to your (plural) allies, but for (about)
which 8 cn the
city sent" us.
'
purposes for
They resisted a z
(stood-over-against) the Mecle
dat
solely
for-the-sake-of the subjugation*"' of Greece to themselves^"'.
art art
Help (ace.) to friends in the war.
" Mea
T7te dative expresses "from," someivhat as in Latin :
a m
voice) he received from him a brazen spear.
J
For-how-much may 5
I
buy"*' (redeem) from you the little-
pigs ? Say.
I will exact (seize-on
a * m an oath from the Trojans.
*"#)
You would obtain of a/pw with /ce) favor and
(a. 2. m. opt.
He is
worthy of death from (i. e., at the hands of) the
city.
Achilles is
worthy of honor from us.
Take-a-blessing from me, O Patroclus, even in the house ?'
(ministers).
The Medes followed'"1 ^ close-on Cyaxares
art
, and the
ar
Persians close-on Cyrus ', and the others close-on them.
Follow me. I will follow you.
wage-war with
1
I the Trojans on-account-of-Helen *".
A procrastinator struggles with losses.
They assert that this neut only acc, namely a just and good
judgment (opinion) vies inf ivith life itself (i, e., is as great
a good as life itself).
To go-to-law with any-one.
The words "an army, fleet, soldiers, ships, fyc." are gene-
a dative only, without avv or cijua, when
rally accompanied by
may be understood.}
The Jonians, having come a 2 m (come-from :
Ionic) with
7"' ace 02
this" fleet
Ephesusto left (left-down) their vessels at
,
"
(in) Coressus, a place of the Ephesian-^ territory, but they
1
im tf
themselves went-up (mounted) the country with a large
force (hand).
The Lacedaemonians succoured" the Dorians with 1500 '
a he-then-is- a '
(the)
occ
(journeyed) to Erebus
.
1
It takes an accusative very rarely.
DATIVE. 167
So verbals in reoc :
by women.}
Wfien the verbal has a neuter sense, tJte
person is put in
tJie accusative. In this case the verbal has the construction
Him(The) he struck
imvt
(shoved ; without augment) with
his sceptre, and upbraided'" ^ (without augment) with this 1
speech (fable).
To (mark) with the two eyes <*""'.
see
art
Cyrus was building-the-wall by means of the workmen
who-were-present (present).
Motions made with the body.
The art
shooting with darts .
1 "
The dative marks properly the immediate and near instrument ; 8ii
with the genitive the more remote ; by which the use of the former is ad.
milled. The chief passage is Plal. Theael. p. 139 :
S/cifrrei, aw6Kpuris irorfpa
itl-iiv, amrfp ev Sovptlois "inrois, aiffB^crtis fjKa.drivra.1, aAAo yu^ fis fj.'iav rivit
i'Se'av, fire iftvx))i>, efre & 8e? Ka\t'iv l navra. TOUTO ^WTe'ivti, rj 8ia TOVTUV, diov
liness) of body
v " Here also the dative expresses the nearer, Sick with the accusative the
more remote motive. Thucyd. : O< AcuceSoi/u^vioi avOtvda ffw^dfruv 5ict rr,i-
(written tf).
He is-very-grieved at (upon) the things said by you
en
.
(hints) of Minerva
Cadmus killed 01 (ruined) the dragon through the skill
fl of Minerva.
(discretion )
To report (say) any thing from hearsay.
" am
Sr^ryw and ayavdu,
1
I acquiesce in, contented with," take also an
accusative.
I 2
17*2 THIRD PART.
* 01
Say (Remark) with what right do these, having bound
dal
(bound-thoroughly) your hands with cords drag (lead) ,
conferred by him.
To be-forward in injustice.
To- excel in intellect.
1"*
has become^" weaker a
by considerable city (i. e. has lost
one, and has become so much weaker).
Semiramis was-born a 2
five generations (Ionic) before
a)"'
Nitocris (genitive).
His (The of him) sons beheld" 2 in the same day both the
preservation of themselves and the punishment of their (the)
enemies.
This day I have been released^**"* (liberated) from
fear*"1.
The sixtieth year after the taking""* of Ilium
advantages it us.
hands.
It shoitld mean, I pay back a thing TO a person. Etg or
1
Unless, says Matthias, 7i/j.as is
governed by firu<l>e\ei. But this it
harsh.
ACCUSATIVE. 175
ar<
I will avenge-myself-on""'** (i.e. avenge for myself) my
murderer.
a m
(punished) the blood of
J
I avenged my father.
flatterer.)
What is more delightful than to flatter no-man (not-any-
one of men), either (not-either) Greek or (not-either) bar-
barian, on-account-of gain (reward) ?
Fathers art provide-for their (the) children *"*, in-order-that
07 "'
good things may never (not-at-any-time) be-\vanting-
fut indie
io (i .,fail, leave) them.
I am consulting in-what-way I may fly-a\vay-from
subj
you.
2
( That is, flee you far from you.)
When m
(fought-off) this ....
J
(-4*) they declined
I am-ashamed-of my (the of myself') calamities. (Perhaps
KEpl is understood ; or bpuv fyc.)
Sfc. ; or by irepi :
1
Plutarch has the dative after it.
8
Virgil, G. 3. 499: " Victor equus/owtes avertitur."
176 THIRD PART.
man.
He boldly-dared
1
the way.
If any men salute (respect*) you, salute-them-in-return, in-.
dwelling-places).
Ill-disposed to (about) the sciences.
All which things beholding (inspecting) I was-displeased l
(took-ill).
Sfc., Xeyw, of
7ro>, fyc., take an accusative 2
Do not (fir))
do (imperative) ill towards (or to) the dead PI
oa>6p<S>-
iroiffiv
fdpyet. Where the construction may be :
edpyei iro\\k (6ma) Koxk
avOpdhrouri. So Isocrates
MrjSev ayaffbv iroijffas rp v6\fi : i. e. /Mj8< (bv)
:
us. ...
art
Doing?' (Working) the greatest evils to cities and to
ar '
individuals
I could (opt. of Ivvapai with av) not either (not-and)
e.
of you (i. praise ycu).
We wish (are-inclined) to speak-well-of a '
(z.
e.
celebrate)
our (#/te of us)
fathers.
i 5
178 THIRD PART.
I bid " Venus farewell 1
your
-
ee, fyc. These accusatives are SINGLY found placed after the
verbs. *
ward).
l fem such (so-great) a quantity of mo-
Having extorted"
ne yar/ (riches) from the allies
took-away
(the to me only) and dear boy.
Jove took-away""^ (took-away-from) boasting from
Teucer.
Let not (/ij))
that (that-at-least) man come * "**
(arrive),
who (ivhoever) shall spoil you of your possessions.
He robbed" m us dual of all our wages (reward).
'
other-sacred-purposes.
Let us use 01 """*-' this survey
art
to this neut end (or pur-
pose.)
I know (have) not what (what-any) I shall do-with ' m "^
him*".
acc neut
But the purposes for (upon) which any-one would
use (a. 1. m.
opt. with av) such a wild-animal*". . . .
(sorts).
Xerxes art having divided " ' m all the foot-soldiers into
,
three divisions. .
ACCUSATIVE. 181
Cyrus
art
distributed 01 (Karave'/uw) the army into twelve
parts.
Instead of the last construction, the whole is
put in the
2 acc
Having made (split) two divisions of all the
Lydians. . .
( That is, Having divided all the Lydians into
HoilofjLat
J
takes two accusatives :
mid the working of iron ar/ a wonder.
Thinking (Making )
mid the thoughtlessness of Eurybiades
Thinking (Making ?')
a wonder. (Put these words in the Ionic dialect.)
He pillaged (made
impf mid
-
them. 2 )
1 " The which with the simple verb would have been
object of this verb,
fiai) to your-mind ?
" 2
Trembling seized (came-under) the limbs of the Tro-
jans.
His spirit left
2
his (him) bones.
Down p/ covered impf
(roofed : without augment) his (him)
black chin.
dua
Having bound
l
(joined-in) the joints of his (him) feet ',
he threw a l
(hurled) him by the hands dat
of others on (into)
an unfrequented mountain.
ACCUSATIVE. 183
He was lopping the young twigs of a wild-fig-tree.
" Kara is
usually supplied with these accusatives : Ti iriv-
QOQ "iKtro are KATA typlvae ; But this explanation does not
suit all passages ; and sometimes makes the expression stiff
and awkward. It is much more probable that this con-
struction is to be explained by a kind of APPOSITION, by
means of which the whole is more accurately defined by the
addition of the part" Matthias.
" call or
Lastly ; the verbs to name, make, choose," take
two accusatives, as in Latin.
Whom The) Hector called & (Poet.
im
. . .
( : without aug-
art
ment) Scamandrius, but (on-the-other-hand) others called
Astyanax.
Let not (jp\) the son-of- Saturn make" '
"**
(^Eolic) you
king in Ithaca.
mid him commander
They choose (governor) of the expedi-
tion against (towards) the Medes.
TJiese verbs frequently add eivai *
:
_____ to -- ---- on
seems afftota
__ __
: mm
Tefl** (Remark) me Ae name which (*M*-e<er) both
jpvr mother and jpmrr father called *' yon.
ms to "" and 1
in as, fibe wone
(pnt) pleasures ruling*
lv
outrageoasness has been applied* (rii "lyivea />:
MtMefo'X
/^
To which 1'
assemblage they give" Qdoce) lie MOM man
and stone and each animal and form.
ACCUSATIVE. 185
He said *
not easy at (in) the present nuuc
that it was ''
be filled-full
* mbi of flesh en P l and bones ?
2
Having put- forward his right foot (member)
To call-out-to any-one.
:
poetry
To look fearful (fear acc ).
To look martial (Mars).
A dragon looking- up with-a-murderous-fiery-look (a
murderous flame)
So VIKQV "to conquer," (intrans.) takes the accusative,
which however may be governed by Kara, c. :
2
Amphitryo greatly offended-against" the immortals.
To offend-again st " * m the immortals who possess wide
heaven.
Lest he should kill" * "**
(kill-entirely : JEolic form) him,
and offend-against a 2 "^ m the behests of Jove.
The dative is
very frequently used. Isocrates : El TIS fyua>j/"innn vevi-
(t> OATMniA2IN.
ACCUSATIVE. 189
"
messages and commandments of Mer-
'
having violated the
person.
In poetry the verbs to " an
stand, sit," take accusative of
the place :
When woman m
(of women) came
2
the divine (came-from)
c fyc. are understood. )
1
to the suitors. . . .
(IIpoc,
02 to this land not at-all neut
Polynices came (any ) meanly,
dat
rattling with many horses and ten-thousand shields
(arms).
dat dual
1. By whose hands I was sent-away privately l
He goes a fruitless
journey (way). (Kara, &a, fyc. are
understood.)
1
So Virgi! " Italiam And
:
Lavinaque venit Littora." Shakspeare :
imp unity.
Hence in the passive these verbs are used for to "be
"
sworn by :
l
I have been wondrously pleased" (gratified) with your
Gods<K Jupiter sworn-by is an-object-of-merriment (ridi-
culous) to the-knowing.
A
need of good (virtuous) counsel presses on all the
Greeks.
But who has now assembled " us here ? whom does '
ne-
Having taken
2
that from-withinj the want of-which (OTOV)
particularly possesses you
The impersonals x/) and %ti are similarly used :
You shall say (relate) what (OTTKO) you-want.
Telemachus, you-have-no-occasion-for diffidence any-
longer.
or '
I have come 2
to see whether you-need either my help
acc
(hand) or that of my confederates in any thing.
a
They did not lose (were taken-from ') their-desire (the"
coveting) of the sailing by the cumbrousness**"
of the equip-
ment.
The king (president) of the blessed Gods will have need
I
grow old being constantly (always) taught much
neut acc
(many >
*
Being instructed" in music by Lamprus*'" and in rhetoric
by Antiphon
The women shall be clothed" "* with virtue
1
instead-of
garments.
Endued tfw"' (Clothed-upon) with bravery. . . .
in
They witnessed^ (bore-witness) that-they-saw (mark S)
me struck ? r by Conon* e and stripped-of (stripped-off) my-
garment (the garment : making one word of the two) by
him.
I was persuaded" '
these things by you*'".
arf 1 "
High-pretension-to-wisdom (Self-conceit ) is called*'-''**
(named-by-change) by the contrary name, want-of-wisdom.
7"'
Threatened*'-''*'"" (Threatened-againsf) dreadful" things
by (at-the-hands-of) you*""
So the thing is put in the accusative, when the verb takes an
accusative of the thing and a dative of the person :
Those ( The) of the Athenians who were charged*^ with
the watch
I waselected-to*'-''*'"" the command
(empire).
He leaves an ancient tablet inscribed*1''*""' (written-in)
with signs (watch-words). " nomina
(So Virgil: Inscripti
regum Flores.")
Ethiopians girt* (without augment) with leopards'-skins
2''
and lions'-skins
The last sentence may be translated : " Having skins girt
round them." The same mode of translation may be adopted
in many of the others. It seems necessary in the following :
Kei/jLtvoi
into TTEpiKEiplvaQ, i. e. atrtricaQ ; or TrEpiKEifitvoiG. It
ivill be sufficient to supply avrae." Schweighceuser in this
translation supplies avrove, i. e.
TE\apwvag,
In the same manner ; instead of the sentence To rpawyna pov
"
7rt2f7rat, My wound is bound up," the Greeks
say, Eyw
ETrtSt'oyuai
ro rpaujua, " I have my wound bound up" In these
cases, m-a, eic, or irepl are usually supplied : I am bound up
riches.)
(into) face.
Achilles quick in the feet
Disabled {Blind) as to the ears and the mind and the
eyes. ....
Gr. Ex. K
194 THIRD PART.
Dreadful in fight
Endeavour to be in body" rt fond-of-labor, and in mind ar '
(soul) fond-of~wisdom.
To have-bad-eyes (ail eyes ).
art
All the stars (portents') with which (the) heaven has been
crowned^". . . .
(observations).
They daub all their (the) body and their (the) face (coun-
acc neut
tenance) with this stuff pounded.
Tilings wrought by the same art
Hence the accusative is put adverbially :
:
bially
ACCUSATIVE. 195
The Athenians were greatly hurt""?-'.
You will hurt me not more (greater : in a contractedform)
than yourselves.
To assist a little.
To one-who-has-benefited (the having benefited *) another
in the greatest manner
(gone-forward) about
(as) five-miles (forty stadia)
A river having its breadth more than (than upon) tv/o
stadia
K 2
196 THIRD PART.
The " eut inscriptions written^ ten thousand years (Say, ten-
thousandth year) ago
He finds (seizes-down-upon) the daughter of the prefect-
f ^""*
of-the-village married the ninth
day before.
In the folloicing passage the mode of calculating the time
past is reversed ; as it may be in some of the preceding :
You are now (already) bearing-arms for the tenth year
By night. By day.
Having brought the ships over the isthmus. ... (" Having
brought over" is vTrepEVEyKov-Es. See the note. )
1
We passed"
2
(proceeded-froni) the streams of Asopus.
To escape"
2
(Jly-from) death. (Properly, To fly death
and go from it.)
meaning.}
a2
And, as a proof aec of these things, go (going ) to-Pytho,
and ask (cnquire-into this) if I have expressly reported" 1
to
apvrjfftv.)
position to be repeated with these verbs. On the other hand, many verbs
are more frequently constructed with the dative: afj.<t>tGd\\tii> rt rivi."
Matthise.
K 3
198 THIRD PART.
a
(held-apart) before (and) he threw (hurled) him on (into)
'
an unfrequented mountain.
Sometimes the accusative is not at the beginning :
neui
the-more-for-that let even those words satisfy (im-
ACCUSATIVE. 199
perative) you
datpl in which I have often at-other-times
shown" 1
(shown-clearly) that the same acc (i. e.
the trouble)
by supplying t'x
wv -
You-man-who-have (i.
e.
e'xwv) the purple-garment, who
may-you-be ?
They take-uP the dead man, having his (the) body in-
K 4
200 THIRD PART.
plethra.
'EXUIV is sometimes supplied :
same ; as thus :
acc fl.
I long to dwell-in that house
a me.
Endeavour to save l
you.
I do not exhort (commend) you rfa/ to wish him ill.
(Say,
to will great evils.)
He persuades Orestes to kill"
'
his mother.
dat
I order (enjoin-upon) you to remain.
He was forbidden PS
(interdicted) by (according-to) law
acc
a a
They made
l l
Agesilaiis retire (retire-upon).
Tell ( Utter) me, if you wished opt a ' "*
(were-inclined) to get
(tvork-upon) any of your (the) acquaintance, when (birurt)
he sacrifices ''', to invite you to (upon) dinner acc , what
would you do (a. 1. subj. with di>) ?
2 ar'
It happened" that Fabius (accus.) then was-ill-spoken-
of a 1 act inf
these things.
In the subsequent passages also the construction is differ-
(was-short-of very-
little enneu* to 11
the Plataeans.
destroy >)
No-one advanced-against him, though-he-failed (a, 2. dat,
K 5
202 THIRD PART.
neut acc
part, of aTroXetTrw) but a little of-going (to comc-
azm acc
from .-
Ionic) to Athens itself.
(jui)) disposed
All things are-constituted*^ so as to decline.
Having chosen"
l
(elected) Melanthius to be their (of
tliem) commander
art imPf
Cyrus was-particular ( paid-regard this ge ") that (in-
a2o;
what-way) his men should never (not-at-any-time) go
''
near) ?
ar '
They begged""^ (petitioned) of Aristagoras (Ionic)
that (if-in-any-way) he would give (hold-out-to a z P') them
some reinforcement (ability).
They exhorted-one-another ' m^ (urged-beside) not.(o7rwc
/u^) to suffer-'"' ''"^ the barbarians to pass into Greece ar/.
im indic
They got-ready tf to (in-order-that) make-an-attack-^ .
a * ace
They have caused many-to-doubt (so-that many
doubt"'f).
The "
infinitive is put after verbs to say, deny, mention,
announce, show ; think, mean, hope, and seem ;" as in Latin.
Of this we have had abundant instances. iSo after fXdeiv,
"
"to be announced :
When ( W7ten-indeed) it was-enjoined (came) him'*"' that
he should help (succour) his (the) country dat . . . .
K 6
204 THIRD PART.
Verbs to
"fear" are not regularly followed by the infini-
" Ne" in Latin.
tive, but by nij with the finite verb, as Yet
here also the infinitive is sometimes put :
of-being-destroyed
" 2
'"I
"
After verbs to deny" p) is frequently put before the
:
infinitive
Do you deny (deny-downright) that you have done^
these things ?
I forbid (disallow) you to admit Adrastus into this land.
(am-inclined).
He shall save (extricate) me from dying"
2
'<
I made" *
mortal men to cease from foreseeing
'"S their fate
" 1 make to cease.")
(allotment). "^Ilauw,
So-that-they-rendered-them-5ncapable of-cutting-them-off-
by-a-wall (not-to-wall-them-off) any-more.
2 mbJ 2 "'-r
If I
(Provided} escape" (run-from) dying" .... .
He narrowly fled" 2
(Jled-from) from (TOV py) being
stoned" 1 p inf
(stoned-doivnriaht).
In-order-that the barbarians (any of tJie
barbarians)
might beware mbJ in-after-tirne of-being-the-first-to-do (to
art
You disbelieve lhat virtue is
ja(y
knowledge. (Put here
ov after p'?)
INFINITIVE. 205
jectives cWa-oej c.
Keen p/
in-planning-and-in-executing (to excogitate
11 l
and
bring-to-an-end).
Inferior-to none**" in-discovering what-is-proper.
Not slow to punish.
1
But, besides this, the infinitive here may be considered as depending on
ei> T understood. Aet?b? fv Tta Xtftv.
206 THIRD PART.
Not-easy to be tamed" 2 .
m
(did-thoroughly) the mansion so-that-
'
They finished"
a 2
it-was-astonishing to look-at (behold).
Goddesses to pluck.
He hastened" l (hurried) to rush-forward" ' m
against
(opposite-to) the gates (old genitive).
He went" 2 (journeyed) in order to go (a. 2 : old form)
there
Having hastened"
'
**
(hurried) to (towards the"') pur-
sue. . . .
We are-come to learn.
The Corinthians turned" 2 m to the men"" to murder them.
Xerxes sent'mR/'a horseman to see" * m
(behold) what (which-
ever) they were doing "*".
n
Jupiter was waiting (was waiting-for the "")
- '"
to behold"
the brightness of the blazing ship (Ionic).
THIRD PART.
The water of Castalia awaits (waits-upon) me, for-the-
2
They excluded" the Mityleneans from the sea**". (Add:
not to use. That is, so that they did not use it.)
Here is this hair
(curl) for you to decorate (shade-over)
the grave with.
Where are the Phrygians that they may help (ward-off )
us?
There are others also at hand to help (ward-off") us.
"For the very (greatly) rich man is not more fortunate than-
depart (go-out).
He (remarked) me that himself (self) had tried^""
told" 2
(endeavoured) both"""*'
en
, and that
that"" man had not.
come) cowardly.
It is-natural to (in) some men, the (how-many dat neut
"'"*)
67
more they have'" (with Q.V) the necessaries-of-life in-abun-
-
injured
"J 1
rf"*'
It was formerly the most honorable"' "*'' thing for us 1
"*
to gain-renown by going-frequently to war **.
'
It ispardonable (pardon} in you** to say these things,
acc fem not receiving ill treatment)
not (/ii/) suffering ill
(i. e.,
as I do.
210 THIRD PART.
Thus we find in Terence: "Licet BONOS esse VOBIS."
gloriously.
1
In-the-constant-expectation (Always remaining-for-^ ")
that Orestes will come (arrive-upon) ,
I perish (utterly-
perish).
The accusative with the infinitive is put especially after
Xeyw, ayye'XXw, fyc.
Wlien these verbs are in the passive,
the subject of the infinitive is changed into the subject of the
leading verb :
2
Cyrus is said to have been-born of Cambyses a* his
father
The Assyrian is reported to be-making-an-attack (throtv-
in) on (towards^) the territory.
O; the accusative and
1
infinitive remain :
"^ * m
being-apprehensive that (lest) they would perish"
(utterly -perish) but <Aa Ae
; thought that-it-was-not-right
2
(not heir e"'f properly) for himself to leave" (forsake) his
(Me) post. ('E^tiv depends here, says Matthias, on vo/i/^wr,
which is contained in Kr)$6p,EvoQ. Schweighceuser supplies
\iyuv in his translation.)
This takes place after particles, with reference to the fore-
'
going part of the sentence .-
He
said""^ (asserted) that he honored" (respected) the
71 ^
dai
Samians, because his (him ) grandfather"" (art.) was
at-the-public-expense by them
* '"/
buried"
"
After verbs to say" the constructions of the accu-
sative with the infinitive, and of OTI and we are inter-
mixed.
He
says that Tissaphernes
ar '
does not bring (copw) the
"
ships, and that, in not giving" the provisions (nourish- 1
nations.
I am-informed that this man served" '
(SovXeww) in Sa-
mos. *
hie QUAM videtur morienti mihi non exhibiturus debitam officii vicem!"
INFINITIVE. 213
art
in) with these continentals (dative).
To live not (pri) honorably, is a great evil (distress).
Not (/*>/) to learn" 2 these things, is better (superior-to)
02 them.
for you than to learn
The circumstance, that we being men should sin, is
nothing wonderful.
The circumstance, that a man, even-if (KIJV) he (any-one)
be *"'!/
wise, should learn many things, is nothing disgraceful.
2. To in the genitive : He admonished""^ him to be-care-
en
ful-of-this (attend-to t/ie
),
viz. to be as useful-as-possible
(most useful).
A sudden fate (allotment) deprived" J
him of life (the to
live).
I saved" m (rescued-from
'
: without augment) mortals from
ryu, airb rov avrofid-rov x^ fixovros irAot'oi/, JKovvd TWOS "OTI K\4avSpos
itfiv &C.
2l4f THIRD PART.
acc J>l
that-no-one (lest any ) should ever (at-any-time) be-in-
doubt" (seek) from-what-cause so-great a war arose (was
'
11 2
appointed ).
have not (pit ov%i) up-to this ?c " time obtained (done-en-
tirelyff) all things that (whatsoever) we pray-for
Instructed & in
(towards) the-habit-of-desiring (the to
want) things in-moderation (moderate^).
But do you, on-account-of (through) the fact that you
are a stranger"01", imagine (Attic form) that you will not be
Death we a 2
owed
is a debt all owe. (Say, To die-off is
[%] us da >
all.)
To learn a 2
is-always-an-act-of-youth (is-youthful always)
to the old.
For me to receive *
(take) any thing and to (the) go-
without it, rests-with these men.
I put-off the answer to (unto) the third
(ttiroKpivieaQai)
day.
Nothing is so good as (such-as : i. e. -OIOVTOV olov) to
hear '.
( That is, It is best to hear.)
supplied.)
Preventives against-increasing (i. e. TOV).
Leisure for-marching (to advance-with-an-army : i. c.
acc
TOV) against (upon) the Greeks .
He k?pt
" 2
the Cymasans from-doing these things. (ToD
THIRD PART.
is understood. Though wore may equally well be supplied ;
as in some of the sentences above : and in this following,
Trusting
& mid (Obeying) to the treaties which save you
2
from-dying (to die" )
You have caused (made l
cumstance) that-you-should-not-die.
INFINITIVE. 217
Love (Attachment) shall soothe one of the daughters so-
that-she-shall-not-kill (i. e.
irepl or eig) her husband (bed-
fellow').
Do not (p)) dishonor ' "*> me by-my-not-dying with
pends on TO.)
O dearest voice (utterance) I Ah (</>v) ! The circumstance
that I should hear" *
(take) the salutation of such a man
after (in) so long a time !
to me fyc")
He is said tohave been ""^ so (thus) covetous-of glory
that while
(so-that), (being) yet young, he-was-unable-to-
Gr. Ex. L
218 THIRD PART.
acc
sleep (to be-wakeful) at-night (the nights ). (That \,
great one.
That it
may be allowed to me to say" 2
(remark) so, sum-
ming-up-all-together.
That (So-that) I-may-be-allowed (to be) to contrast these
small things with great d"' ones. (Perhaps SOKEI may bs
understood before elvai.)
'ie and ware are often omitted here :
a *
But afterwards (after
prep
),
not to tell
(remark) the tain
*
in a long (much) narration, some time intervened" and all
dat
things were got-ready*'"*' (made-ready) by them
*"** for-
their-return.
To speak"
2
summing-up
a 2 acc
all things in one observa-
tion. ....
He was pierced^", so to speak, more ( pi. neut. contracted)
than a net^".
flc and Aare are put with the infinitive in a limiting
sense :
L 2
THIRD PART.
If Menelaus kill"^ Alexander, let the Trojans
acc
re-
her" 01"
(the) place
02 W the robe, which seems to-her (ot) to
be the most elegant, on the knees dat of Minerva (Ionic).
And let it occur 2 V
to every man, that the-contempt-of
it is thought to be re-
is
frequently used where
dundant ; especially with ZKUV.
Thus in Thucydides : To*'
oe ayuh'a OVK V ry KoXiry t/cwv EINAI Troo/oropu. Here we,
be willing to do so.
him*" 1
to be) you were saved"
J
.
(That is, irepi TO tlv'cu. ^
neutacc dat
As-far-as-these-were-concerned (The upon them
to be), you were placed R^P' in the most terrible dangers.
To-day-at-least. With-respect-to-this.
With-respect-to-you-at-least.
1 "
Schweighaeuser translates it Qui, apparatum navalis pugna.- dis-
:
girl to her
dear father.
1
Tlplv seems to be a comparative, and to answer to irp6repov, PRIUS.
The vefbs to
" know" take another verb in the
hear, see,
'
And knew not eating death."
I, 4
THIRD PART.
"1 .
Knowing (adoree) that-they-would-not-have-been-able"
But know (contracted form) that you shall suffer
Sempart^a deserved punishment (recompence).
Know (as above) that you are
partn(im troublesome.
Know (as above) that Creon will come par ' acc
to you for-
and addition of da) that you are nom P art not faithful-in-your-
oath towards me.
When Zvveitilb), ^vvei^ripi, crvyyivuaKU), take the dative after
eiriarra.fjia.1.)
arl
being) most eager at-the-beginning-of (by) this present
war acc .
We forgive ourselves
dat
not having-done a l
rightly.
The verbs also to "perceive, discern, consider, observe,
neut P l
I will show (reveal) nrst acc that-I-am wise, then
He 02
**"'
remembered*''"'' having said (remarked) c.
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226 THIRD PART.
seemed "^ 11
to me to be an enormous work.
Do you not remember (call-to-mind} when you wen;
hanging (suspending****) from-on-high ? (Express the inter-
"
rogation by f) : which however may mean verily.")
" " at once the
If you mention," says Porson, thing anil
the time it took place, that is more than if you mention the
Perform" '
the things-which-remain, in-order-that every-
one (any) of the barbarians may iu-after-time be-cau-
*"*
tibus 1 "*-' 1
He is
emulously-desirous not-to-fail tn doing well to
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228 THIRD PART.
He seems as-if-he-were-going-to-sacrifice-for-the-success-
of (sacrifice-for : nom. s e ".
part. fut. mid.) his (the) versifying
You are like one-who-thinks da ' that luxury and costliness
omitted :
Know (contracted) that you are safe.
" In
Soph. Antig. 472, tlicttv OVK firicrrarat xaKdis, means, knows not
1
(the
neutacc tis
acc
to have escaped-noticetf mid consulting -about
these neut )?
mad" l P nom
[himself] being ).
Croesus art was-unconsciously-supporting (was escaping,
tte-observation-of [himself] supporting} the murderer of
his {the} son.
havQdvu is
often put in the participle :
1
Hermann mates the proper meaning of this word to be " I leave off.''
<t>BrJtu from Trrdte, irrrtfui, as QOvfa from itrtu. *ef//ut irplv, antevolo.
230 THIRD PART.
The Scythians 1
the Persians in Sm
anticipated" coming"
acc
{coming-from) to (upon) the bridge .
hill *
the Syracusans
before acc * m *<
came-up
They-were-banished from the island, before (before**" than)
the Goddess acc became" 2 "^ propitious {mild) to them.
You-would-be-enslaved, before () : i. e, TrpvrEpov r/) any-
one"" of us heard" 2 m "^ it.
(learnt-by-enguiry) of
1
The Editor of the Remarks on Matthite thinks this a wrong explanation,
and says that the interrogation has no place here. Brunck supports the in-
terrogation, and is undoubtedly correct
PARTICIPLE. 231
of (jtdrjfii i. e.
having anticipated him) .....
:
vance p/ (bring-forward).
<&0a<mc zs <^M5 peculiarly used by the Attics.
The infinitive is also
found after Qddvk) :
).
Thus also :
1
Brunck explains it as an hypallage for trvxov vxoffxfofvos.
PARTICIPLE. 233
peated.)
In dialogues, the answer of one speaker is often united to
the words of another by a participle :
I will go-through
f each thing in-order, having begun"
J m
niating) calumniate""^?
The path acc by (through) which acc
,
those-of-the-Grecians-
ae in Herodotus.
amongst-all.
being understood.
2
There came" certain persons bringing (leading) goods
6
(riches) from (from-beside) the Indus* ".
I was-distant""^
(was-absent) as-far-as (so-far-as) a person
can-bawl.
Nor (Not-and) is it fitting that a person under (usingtf)
such a calamity dat should go' n/ (go-on) to persous-of-like-
acc
age-with-himself who-are-in-a-state-of-happiness.
So TI is understood :
If he thinks that he has suffered^""' * 1 inf
at-my-hands any
thing in word p/ or (and-whether) deed p leading (bearing) '
(regret) of life.
wr,
" now
settling the matter," is used for " at
length."
At-length I-went.
01 a
At-length, having taken book, he departed" *.
men.
<bif)<iii> appears redundant in some expressions, but always,
denotes a vehemence of not altogether free
purpose, from
blame :
238 THIRD PART.
having indulged"
fast (have).
actions.
" l
Just-as-I-was-taking-in-hand to consider-of the de-
dat acc
Hippocrates (art.) being about Delium (art.).
PARTICIPLE.
a m a
Who pl nom
having caused meeting (collection), The-
l
Two" "1
going-together (coming-together), the one is-wont-
a
to-think (think-of ') sooner-than the other what-is-ad-
vantageous : but, if (if-altogether) a person thinks a *"% '
dat
(thinhs-of) alone, his (him ) mind isslower and (but and)
his penetration is slender.
The DATIVE ABSOLUTE also is used in this case :
a J
took-in-hand to deliver-up (lead: a. 2.
Attic) the city to
the Athenians"". (Here the dative may be governed by
tv.)
And the ACCUSATIVE ABSOLUTE :
(announced-to) that
so-happen.)
as-men-',vent to battle"**, one (any-one) v> -ere-able fut in-
If,
the-mean-while to make" *
warriors by declaiming-rhapso-
u-ords :
immediately.
2
My present husband being dead" (utterly-dead), I-might-
have (there-might-be me dat
) another husband. (Iloo-tc
not only
done"
'
nom
nothing) worthy of the equipment.
If-it-should-so-happen,
neut
Behoving-him-as-it-docs not (p)) to say the truth (being ,
Ionic : " the thing ichich is"), he says that the way- back is one
of three months.
M 2
244 THIRD PART.
These-things-having-been-determined-on by us
da/
.
( But
perhaps rav-a. is Trepi raDra.)
up"
l
the-laws (the laws the) of Solon, instead-of Solon he
1
appointed". himself the lawgiver.
Sparta
""^ other compacts
They made when-Theramenes-was-pre-
sent (upon Theramenes being present).
temple-was-burnt.
dat
After-a-fall-of-snow ( Upon snow having fallen
a 2
) it
P acc
I was delighted" l
(gratified) at your {you ) speaking-
art
well-of my father.
acc
Iam-glad-at your(yow ) succeeding.
Our ( The to us) crews have been ruined 2 P
(corrupted},
and are still now being ruined on-account-of (through)
this acc , viz., the sailors being destroyed (destroyed-utterly)
6"
by the cavalry^ of the enemy
Verbs of motion are thus accompanied by participles :
Rising-up with-a-view-to-give-advice.
I have undertaken rtf *1
(hurried) to teach
^ you.
He sends me to you bearing these letters.
possess.)
I supplicate you, even thougli being a woman, nevertheless
I supplicate you.
The four-hundred were gathered-together' '(>//ecfec?) at
mfi/
(EC, i. e.
t\Q6vTf.g EC) the senate-house, even though thrown-
into-confusion ^
nevertheless they were gathered together.
They live
by plundering (preying).
He surpasses (conquers) his (the) friends in doing good
(well).
propositions.
J m whom
It is necessary to define we-mean-by-philoso-
art
phers-when (saying philosophers ) we dare to affirm that-
1
For a common expression would be :
no\f/ju>vmcu, craQws
A&rjvaiaiv.
PARTICIPLE. 249
bers (being'011 how-many any} they are able to perform these
things.
The commanders asked ""^ whether they retreated (re-
f
real-front) in-consequence-of-thinking the most hostile land
more-their-own than the sea**".
What wishing (inclined) do they flee ?
On-\vhat-presumption (
What having learnt 2
) have you
done" '
this ?
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250 THIRD PART.
1.
Participles in the case of the preceding subject :
You advise these things as not (ovyi) intending-to-assist
(fut. part, fern, of o-uvopdw) me. (I. e., with an intention not
to assist me.)
Do not (pi) answer (speak-in-answer :
imperative) me acc ,
the-instant) pleasures*'
671
do it, not that (tra) they never
" *"#
(neither-at-any-time) may be made-glad
'
by it ; but
to-war/K
PARTICIPLE.
2. Genitive absolute :
d<
Envying (Enviously-begrudging) her ", as (whereas) being
respected
&*" above all*" others, they were delighted ""^
1
dat
wzYA the judgment (Ionic) given against her.
3. Accusative absolute :
off) them.
Such-of-you-as (As-many-as) are (rvj-^avw iwv) well-
disposed to the Persians (Ionic), rejoice (be gratified) at
(on-account-of) this, under-the-expectation-that-we-shall-
overcome the Greeks**".
Not from do I say these things, but because-
insolence^"'
4. Dative absolute .
Sometimes wv is omitted:
You-may say
in
(utter-a-voice f) every thing, as \ en
am
alone fem.
Or do you make-light-of my (the of me) fare, as-if
(as)
M 6
THIRD PART.
a"
my food aec (plan-of-living) were more difficult to pro-
cure ' m than art
yours (gen.) ?
Sometimes the subject rovro is omitted :
though"
t>f such constructions as Mrjcev aor' iaQt pe, we have had
examples. In these we is
often added:
acc
Be-assured (Know: contracted) that l know (having
neut
ascertained: pf. contracted) nothing (not-one ) of the
of life.
redupl.).
He says that virtue
art
(genitive: Tcpt understood) is
capa-
ble-of-being-taught.
The people sprang-up " '
to a strife acc of
(rushed-up)
1
Xenophon combines the construction of the participle and the optative :
"fto-Trep TON API0MON rovrov 'EXONTA two. avdyKr]i> KaXovs Kal ayaOovs
fivcu, Kal OVT' Q<a Tovruv ffirovtiaiovs our' fvrbs TOVTWV irovripovs oT6v re EIH
PARTICIPLE. 253
ing) but ;they (the) that that person had done so.
'2e is here omitted :
What do you
think (affirm) concerning my (the) brother*-
gender ; if she uses tlie masculine gender, she uses also the
"
:
plural
Though ire have been injured' we will be-silent m y (Here
1
-'' '
.
" "
injured is in the masculine, though Medea, who speaks, is
speaking of herself.}
1
Xenophon has, 'Cs *dw uoi AOKEI ..... OVTUIS laOt, where 8oKt for
SOKOW is observable.
2 QUTW is
generally placed thus at the end, but not always. Plato :
M}>
s &C.
254 THIRD PART.
acc
Have ye come" 2 (arrived) to the act-of-barbarity , old-
em
man, in killing?' her as an enemy f ? Say
a 2 *"*
(Remark).
TJie participle does not always agree with its case :
dat I was acc fem
My (Me ) heart palpitated^ as hearing-of
this.
to sleep all-the-night.
So Virgil: " Nee minus JEneas se MATUTINUS agebat."
clear case")
The illustrious" '" ?l
(altogether). The neighbours (near,
adv.).
sub-> dal
Neither (Not-either) let it seem" l
right to any-one to
verb.)
And to give-it-back 2
to him da/ again (a50tc ai5) for an
acc
(the) equal time .
willingly (ivilling).
dat
But-see Ulysses is-coming in-haste (rapidity of foot).
( These particles are thus of frequent use in announcing the
entrance of a new personage on the stage.)
He swears that he will most-certainly ransack '"S the city
oath.)
Te seems to be properly an affirmative particle.
I-for-my-part. ( TJiat is, I assuredly : whatever others do,
I at least do so.)
They affirmed
" not " " "
(Put before affirmed. So Nego is used in Latin,)
If, as-\vill-happen (often)
Lest by-chance (often)
You do not perceive (WaiV) that you are laughed-at
nom the very men*'*", whom you ail-but
(laughcd-against ) by
(only not) adore.
So with oaov ou, where uaov, like puvov, has an adverbial
use :
(being-present).
"Qaov is used in other constructions :
Sometimes.
On-some-occasions.
Sometimes the conjunction on is displaced :
restore it. (Say, But you will not restore, I know that.)
But know (contracted) this then (therefore), that for-my-
258 THIRD PART.
mid
part I will not cease (make-to-cease ) from doing
so. (Say,
J3ut then for my part I will not cease, this know that.)
The conjunction rt appears to be often redundant. Thus
in the sentence which recurs below :
For Alexander, as-long-indeed-as it was day (light), pur-
sued'" /^ the enemy with-all-his- might:
1
acc acc
Immediately-that-they-hear that you are intending
to build-ships (Ionic) against (upon) them**"'
So in Homer we have :
dat
Resembling^ clouds (Ion.) which (add re) the son-of-
(themselves).
1
Demosthenes supplies the ellipse : KCU ravra ywdiKa exav IIOIEI2.
though you are married.
ADVERB, ETC. 259
''
ning to end" Or, as theprincipal matter.")
Not to find (take" 2 ) any thing u-hen
(pi)) to be-able
acc
seeking for it, or not-even (nor) to seek for it at-all (the
acc
beginning ).
dat his inclination.
In-spite-of (violence ) of
Of me (this man).
To pay great attention '
to any thing. (Say, to luive rapi-
dity of any.)
To make mid a serious- business (rapidity) of any thing.
Those (the) in office.
Brushwood. Materials.
Clever in speaking (the to speak).
stjlldble.)
I am present (beside). ( The preposition is accented on the
Jirst.)
1
From this ffirovtiy is Lat. stud/urn for spudium.
260 THIRD PART.
Tints also tVi and arc used for tVeori and virtari
viro : and
"
usedfor ivtan in the sense of it is possible :"
ivi is
As far as it is possible.
As far as it is in-any-way (mostly) possible
So Trupa, fj.ira.for Trapeori,
:
different
They affirm things ivhich are not incredible.
Go some-one near.
acc
I do well to any-one .
(Here "to do" is not
but Spab) or TToiiti).)
present.)
We know (contracted) that they obeyed Cyrus willingly.
(Say, We know having been-icilling
a ' part acc to obey
Cyrus*"'.)
He is-prosecuted (flies) on a charge dat of murder.
To bring-back the exiles (flying).
They think that the Gods exist. (
That is, They believe in
the Gods.)
The established (thought prneut ) usages of the country.
!
Many of these idioms have occurred in the preceding pages of this work,
but it was thought advisable to bring them and others together before the
reader in one view. The Lexicon of Donnegan has supplied the author with
most of them.
VERB. 26-3
"
I fbr-my-part esteem thee as a God. (Here "to esteem
is vifjut), from tvhose pf. middle is vopifa above.)
6 '"
Ifyou esteem this-/' a sin.
Coiiversant-with '
such (ace. neut. ivith the article) things.
1
Though this is rather an adjective.
264 THIRD PART.
(save-entirely)
even (yovv) himself alone. Are you not satisfied to-die
e
(dying-off) with (/uera) Phocion* "? I content-myself-with
acc
the second place (order)"}
ArEIPO. To make-a-collection through the villages.
(article).
AIPO. To 1 "1
renown. To lm war.
acquire" go-to"
mid satisfaction
To obtain (compensations) from (beside) the
murderers (having committed-murder " J **). To steal-off
(a. 2. m. with K\oirav) with the feet (dat. dual). Having
pushed-off" their (the) ships from the land.
1
Having set-
sail 01 '' with He turned-out" J P a great
seventy ships'*"'.
man. ( That is, He was raised so as to become great.) To
take courage (boldness).
AMEIBQ. To exchange one (some) thing for another
(some s). Advancing on his journey little by little.
(Say,
en p etic
Exchanging knee [/or] knee .) Short-hand-writers
Gr. Ex. N
THIRD PART.
After they had thought fit to do so. (Put avrolg with a.
1 .
part. neut. ace. When they had agreed upon that. (Put
TO.VTO. with a. 1 .
part. neut. ace. That is, Kara TO c)oaj> avrott
Troii](Tiv ratJra.)
(him
dat
) heart had been ?' hammered (pf. with Attic redupl.)
out of adamant. A man acc who had attained (pf. act. with
(battle*" ) enemy
Having fulfilled (pf. mid. pi. with redupl.) every-duty
der).
a wonder. Artisans,
I hold it pardon (have pardon).
I
him acc
much already the time acc
.)
I am in good health.
(Say, I well have the body.) I am unwell. (Say, 1 have
badly.) I am (have) kindly disposed towards you"". He
is (has) wholly devoted to pleasures (ace. with article). As
(As- altogether) it was (had imtf, i. e.
itself). What is your
opinion ? (Say, How you have of opinion 9) I am incensed
(TJie
neut
) relating
000
(having) to war . I cease (told mid )from
10"
They put-into (stopped"
1
ships in) Argos. He
will not cease" 1 "*
committing-injustice. To make-head ""<*
against (ffpoc) any-one
occ
. To wage" "* 1
war. To conduct-
"
1
Thus Lat. " habito from " habeo, habitum."
N 2
268 THIRD PART.
1
hibit 11
you
l
are"
) that
-/ .
its goodness.
VERB. 269
general.
ar '
TI0HMI. I shall cause laughter to my enemies.
I will make their marriage
^ bitter to them. He made (a.
'2. m. without augment) his spirit fierce (wild) in his breast pl.
He shall propose a contest. 02 "*
They abandoned
the war. (That is, laid it down.) Let each hold (a. 2.
m. imperative) his shield ready (well). They encamped
armed. aZm the Administer-
(Say, They placed arms.)
midpi affairs in common <*at Sem I admit ""^
ing \hepublic .
acc
tfiat Philocrates alone is such a person. They were-of-
2 m e. laid it down as a principle) that life (the neut
opinion" (i.
to live) is pleasant (fair). They made" 2 m it their anxious-
2m me dat
concern (haste). They showed" a, kindness (favor).
TYrXANQ. happen to-have (having).
I He happened" 2
to be sacrificing*"*. Whether (with re) he happened f im*f
to be wishing (willing) to sell . . . He obtains pardon *"'".
He obtains permission-to-speak (words). To be-
en
punished (obtain punishment *
2
). Many things fell" to
2
my-share (me). It happened" . Should it so happen (a.
2. opt. preceded by dv). If it should so (thus) happen" 2 indic.
How would Homer have said (a. 2. with av) this, if he had-
had-occasion" 2 "& to it ? One of ordinary rank.
say (Put
\ l> with a. 2. participle : i. e. the first person who happens to
meet one.) Ordinary things. (Put TO. with a. 2.
I
part.)
Accidentally. (Put TO with a. 2. part. That is, caro.)
'YIIAPXii. Property or possessions. (Put ra with par-
N 3
270 THIRD PART.
i. e. Kara TO.)
$AINOMAl. The law appears likely to hurt-^ us. A
discourse simple and perspicuous **. The appearances (ap-
neut f l
pearing ) of the heavenly bodies.
<&EP2. I receive a reward. I give a vote. I confer a
favor on you dat. He suffers punishment for his (the of him-
occ
self) sin . To bear fruit He throws every-thing (all"'?')
into-confusion (up-and-down). To bear impatiently (hea-
vily). To
bear patiently. The road (way) leads to . . .
evilly). Things
art
turn-out* ill"*. The husbandry*'"
having prospered (well borne
pr
).
To fall.
(Say, To be borne
a
downwards.) Come-on. Come, tell (iirta *) me. Thus-
for-example. (Say, For bear.)
1
Hence a road is called ayvid.
2 "
4>^> 6 7&p often occurs at the beginning of a passage, where a proof or
'
' '
suppose.' In a nearly similar sense let us take for granted,' or let us lay
"
dowu as a principle.' Donnegan.
VERB. 271
XPAOMAI. To experience a storm (winter
dat
).
To
suffer shipwreck. To consult the God. I know (have, i. e.
"
perly, They owed you laughter, as in Horace : Tu, nisi ventis
DEBES ludibrium, cave" As by committing offences we owe
certain things to the state, or incur from the state such and
such penalties, so we incur from individuals the penalty
of
ridicule.)
Do you see (mark) what (whichf
1 neut
) you are suffering ?
occ
It does not behove you to incur ridicule (laughter) from
the mistress (marriages dat ) of Jason, sprung ace fsm as you are
6"
from a brave (virtuous) father* and from the Sun.
"/ " Oh
v, ought," is used with an infinitive, for
N 4
272 THIRD PART.
"
(withdrawn), bearing me forward. (" To bear forward is
(ace. neut. pi. in one word) matters, nor (and not) would they
repeal (were repealing/) the decree (resolve).
Both these meanings are exemplified in the following
:
passage
But the two (ootw) Atridae rfu<" and the divine Ulysses re-
" * dual
mained , skilfully endeavoring-to-corafort (delighting)
the afflicted man : but he would not be comforted (was not
'
being delighted) in his spirit* in-any-degree, until-he-should-
enter the mouth of sanguinary war.
So Virgil of jiEneas and Dido : " JEneas. . . . LENIBAT
dictis animum, lacrymasque ciebat : Ilia solo fixos oculos
a versa tenebat."
N 5
ENGLISH AND GREEK LEXICON.
In this Index, all nouns ending in os simply are of the second declension,
and are masculine, unless it is otherwise stated ; and all nouns in ov are of
the second, and are neuter. Nouns of the first declensiou are feminine,
unless it is otherwise stated and those of the third in a, aros and os, eos are
;
At-his-coming, ol t\66vrt
At-home, /tar' OLKOVS Averse-from, to be, airo<TTpt<ponai
At-last, T(\cvTdiot> Averter-of-evils, airorp<raioy
At-leat, ye after another word Avoid, to, airo<pevyw, |co
Bath, \otTpbv ov
r
Batter, to, K6ir r<a, ifw Becoming, to be, irpoaiiKta, o
pieyev6/j,r)v trdpot6t
Be-in, to, eveifu
Beach, O/CT^J, TJS Before-now,
Beaker, Se'iroy, rb Before-thai, irplv ^
Beam, Soifbs, rj Before-this, roirplv
Beam, to, acrrpdirru, <|/ Beg, to, cctrew, 4\au>
Bean, rua/u.oj Beg-of, to, iitveofMi
Bear, to, <pfpo>, fut. oiffta, a. 1 .
fivtyKa ; Beget, to, T'IKTU, a. 2. (TtKov
(pOpftii Beggar, TTTOIXOS
Bear-apart, to, Sia^epou Begin, to, vira.px<a, {CD ; dpx<t>
Bear-arms, to, oiXM c'Ca'> (rco Begin-from, to, aTrdpxo/jiai, ofi.ai
Bear-ialse-witness, to, tyev Beginning, apx^i, TIS
Begone-you-two, aTra\\dxSrjrov
Bear-in-mind, to, tJttfu>dafUU, ^(To/tot Begrudge, to, /jityaipta, apto
Bear-myse!f, I, oixo/u', a. 2. tfx6. Behest, e^^T/u??, ys
P*P Behind, 6iri<r6f, fv ; Hfr6iri.a6t
Bear-the-palm, to, Ka\\icrr(vofj.ai Behold, iSov
Bear-to-see, to, avixofj-cu 6puv Behold, to, eiSai, a. 2. fTSov, iSov ; pf.
Bear-to-see-without-hindering-it, to> mid. o5o
Beholder, oir-rrjp, rjpos
Bear- with, to, , a. 2. t]vet- Behoves, it, xpb> inipf. (XP^ V >
Set
Behoving-him-as-it-does, xo* l'>v H iv
Bear-witness, to,
/Mtprvpfu, fjiroj Believe, to, irurrfvu, au
Beard, Ttuyuv, uvos, 6 ; yivfiov Bellow, to, Tra.pa.iMKdofJ.Cu
Beast, Krr/vos, fos Bellows, <pvo~ai, <ov, at
Beast-of-burden, virofyyiov Belong, to, Ij/fw, {&>
Beat, to, irXiiffata, |w Below, ndrca
Beat-out, to, apdaffta, |<u Bench, KKifffibs
Beat-upon, to, eiri^Trrta, fyca Bend, to, itd/j.irTu, ptyta
dffofuu fvia
Do-thoroughly, to, cartpydfofuu, aero- Drink, to, TriVoi, fut. trwa-u, a. 2. eric-?
pat Drinkables, irora, uv, ra
Do-well, to, fvfpyerfw, -fiffta Drinking, a, Trd/ua, TOS ir6ffis, tus, ;
pf.
mid. \t\i)da Excel-in-bravery, to, apurrtvfaKu
Escape-the-obaervation-of, to, \av- Except, irAV
ddvu, fut. \-t]<ra>, a. 2. e \a6ov,
pf. Exchange, to, a\\dffo~ca, |o! ; afifiSd:,
in. \\r)6a : with accusative fw
Escape-unpunished, they shall, /ca- Excite, to, opoBvvw, vvu
ra7rpo(|oj'Tat Exclaim, to, ova;, ffw
eipyca
Establish, to, Koirouclfo, aa> Excogitate, to, firivota, ijo-ca
Euxine-sea, Tlovros bv
EX FI 293
For-the-sake, (I/
xP Free, e\*vdfpos, a, ov
For-the-sake-of, irepl Free, to, e\fv6fp6o>, dxrca
For-the-sake-ol-learning, TTJS
waiSeias Free-from-danger, aKlvSvvos, ov
eVe/ca Free-from-disease, dvowos, ov
For-lhe-sake-of-obtaming, inrep TOV Free-from-taxation, art iVeoros, ov
Freedom, f\fv6epia, as
eveita. TOV Freight, <p6pros
For-the-sake-of-pleasing,
apeaKfiv Frenzy, irapdvoia, as
For-their-return, es T^V KaToSov Frequent, irvicvbs, ^, bv
Forbid, to, airtirw, a. 2. aire'tirov Fresh, x^-^P^, o, bv
ov
Force, KpdTos, fos Fresh-sprinkled, vedfifavTos,
Force, to, jSidfo/uoi, ffopai Fret, to, KviQofj.a.1, erojuat
Future-repentance, rb /j.era[ji.f\ri(To-
Scav
General, a, <rTparr)\dTr)s, ov,6; ffrpa- Go, to, e'ifj.i, plup. mid. jj'eic, a. 2.
inf. old form ifj.ev
Generate, to, reKv6ca, <a<rca Go-about, to, irfpiepxo/JMi, a. 2. we-
Generation, yevea, as pirj\6ov
Generous, yevvdios, a, ov Go-away, to, elepx ^ ") a> 2. {^A.-
Genuine, ym'](nos, a, ov 6ov
Germans, rep/xdwi, Siv, ol Go-back, to, vfo/j.at
Get, to, a\<f>d.v<a, avta Go-back-from, to, airovtofjMi
Get-away, to, virdyta, |CD Go-fast, to, &o>, poet. i&eia>
Get-from, to, OTroAa/udj/co, a. 2. oire- Go-forward, to, irpoepxofJ.ai, a. 2.?rpo-
\KOV rj\8ov
<o<-
Get-gain, to, tctpfiaivca, avSi Go-frequently, to, (^otrctco, riffta ;
o-thy-way, ihraye
o-to-law, to, Sixd^ouai, O~O/MI Grave,
O-tO-war, to, iro\(fj4<a, ija'ta Great, /xeyas, /usyaArj, /ue'7o ; gen.
o-together, to, ffvpiropfvo/wi, o~o /xe7o\ou, TJS, ow
fj.a.1
Great- attention -to -business, <pi\o-
o-up, to, avi]K<a Trpay/j-oarvvr), TJS
Ill-spoken-of, to be,
KO.KWS UKOVU Jn-case, ty
111-state-of-health, Ka.K6rijs, rjros, rj In-comnion, tv ^firw
Ill-treat, to, aiKio/Mu In-company-with, fj.tra,
Illness, ir6vos , ,
ol In-fact,
Illyrians, the, lAAt/ptol, lav, Si}
T&AAa
^
Immortal, addvaros, ov ;
or -os, t\, In-other-respects,
ov In-our-power, p' ijfuv
Iron-forging, criSrjporfKruv,
ov Joy-producing, x a/J
'
7r
otos, bv
Irrationally, a\6y<as Judea, louoaia, as
Island, tnjcros, r} Judge, Kpir^s, ov ; SiKaffrijs, ov
Ismenus, Icr/urjcbs Judge, to, Kpivca, tvio, a. 1. iKpiva
Issue, to, yiyvo/Mi Judge-against, to, KaraKpivu, lv>
Isthmian, 'ivO/juos, a, OP Judge-between, to, Sx/cpiW, Ivw
Isthmus, nrfytbs Judge-of, to, npivw, Ivia
It, OVTOS, avrrt, tovro ; 88e, i)5e, r65e ; Judge-worthy, to, a|ioa>, <e<rta
currbs, !j, b ;
accus. ovrov ;
r6v$e ; Judgment, Kplffts, etas, T)
avrbv ;
e Judgment-seat, SiKaffT^piov
It-becomes, 5<T Jump, to, Trt]Sdu
It-behoves, xp f ^ v Jump-from, to, aTTOTrr)5du, i]<r<a
fut. a. 2.
TTfvffofj.a.1, pp. wtmfffuu,
m. firv06fj,7]v Lift, to, atipu, fpu ; aipoi, apu
Learn-from, to, fK/j.avddvu Light, <pdos, <ps, gen. (pdtos, fywrbs,
Learn-thoroughly, to, KaranavOdvw, rb
KaTf/j.a6ov Light (adj), \acppbs, a, ov
Learned, ffo<pbs, ^), bv Light-on, to, fvrvyxdvca, a. 2. fve-
Ad-r)i>aia,, as TroAAal
Minister, a/Li<f>'nro\os Mostly, fiaAKTra
Minister, to, inrovpytta, ijffu Mote, icdpfyos, tos
Minos, Mivias, <eos, 6 Mother, ^t/TTjp, repos, rp3s
Mirth, Traiyvia, as Mother-city, /urjrpdiroAis, ecos, ^
Mischief, /SAaSrj, TJS Motion, Kivrjais, etas, TJ (i)
Mischievous, /coicoCp7os, ov Motive, airia, as
Misdeeds, T& ijij.aprrifj.fva Mound, TV/J.SOS
Miserable, rd\as, aiva, av ; /j.t\eos, Mount, to, avaSaivta ;
iKavio
Not-in-any-way, ovStv
Not-in-the-!east, ^Kiffra Obtain-by-lot, to,
Not-one, ^irjSely, ft.-rj5tij.ia, [vrfitv
Not-seen-before, aoparbs, bv Obtain-by-plunder, to,
Not-SO, TTcijUoAo (Ml
Not-then, OVKOVV Occasion, Kaipbs
Not-therefore 1 OVKOW ; Occur, to, irapiaTyj.t, a. 2. iropec'T.]
Not-to-be-borne, OVK avaax fT ^< ov Ocean, niceavbs
Not-to-be-upset, TO ^7; ff^a Odious, more, exC'.aiv, ov (i)
Not-to-!ail, IT/JOS ro Odium, airixOeta, as
OD Oil
Patiently, Koixptas
Patroclus, narpo/cAoy
Patron, irpoardr-i^s, on. 6
Patches, riax^^. ov > Pausanias, Tlavo-avias, ov, 6
Page, SfpaTrtav, OVTOS, 6 Pause, to, KaTairavu}, ace
Pain, \tnrr), rjs f (v} Pave, to, o-Tptavvv/4i, errpc^ffta
Pain, to, a\yvvia, vvu> Pawn, to, evexvpdfa, o<a
Painful, \uirpbs, a, bv Pay, fjiio-6bs
Painting', fcoypo^ia, as Pay, to, Tito, o~u
Palace, ,8aT/A.eio' ; avoKropov Pay-back, to, auei'ojuai, i^ouou
Palm, (f>oivi, IKOS, 6 Pay-no-re2:ard-at-all-to, upav irot-
i
Penetrate, to, Aeiicrcrw Philosophy, <t>t\offo<pia,, as
Penetration, /u^Tis, os, ^ Phocaea, 4>a)/caia, as
Peneus, FlTji/eibs Phocasans, #&>:eue'es, t<av, ol
irpaOov
Permit, to, fdca, dcrio (d) Pillar, K.l<av, ovos, i}
fut. Karayvuffw
Purple-garment, iropipvpls, itios, ;
p 2
316 PU RE
p 3
318 RE RU
vr
Responsible, Right, 5|iuj, a, by
Rest, the, ol Aonroi, ret Aotira Right-hand, 6eio, as-
Rest, to, Ka.0ri(*.ai Rightful, tvStKOS, Of
Rest-quiet, to, ycrvxdfa, <r< Rightly, op0aij
.Resting-place, avdiravKa, TJS Ring, 8a.KTv\u>v
Restore, to, airoSi5<ap.t, fut. airo8(o<rw, Ripe, ajpo?os, o, of
a. 2. a7r5wi> Ripen, to, yripdo-Kai
Restrain, to, aTre^co, fut. o<^|w Rise, to, TfAAco, fut. T(\U
Rests-witli, it, Tre'Aei f v Rise-up, to, aviarafMt
Resuscitate, to, avlffrrj/j.1, avarriffw Rise-up-against, to, cwiffrrj/ju, a. 2.
Retire, to, et/co>, |a>
p5
322 SI SO
]jot t.
Spectator, dedr^s, oO
Speculate-on, to, (r/ceVrojuai, ^outu Stand-round-about, to,
Speech, \6yos 2. irepifo-Tr)v
Strenuous, SoDpts, t5os (fern.) Suffer, to, iratrxw, fut. vaQ^cru, fut.
Superior, KaOvTrfprepos, ov
Superior-to, Kpfiffffiav, ov
Superior-to, to be, wepUifu
-
Superior to
- our - enemies, a/j-eivovs
T>V TTo\ffJ,iiav Table, rpdirefa, TJS
Thus, &s, &>, ovru, oSrws, ai/rws Toil-through, to, ftoyfoi, 4\ao>
Thus-much, TOO-OVTOV ;
roffdSf Token, aLP aXT '^f< yp s >
-)(.
To, es ;
fis ; Trpbs with ace. Touch, to, eiri/ioo/wu, o-ofuu
Trist, dd\ios, a, ov
Trcezenian, Tpoitfjvtos, a, ov U
Trojan, (adj.) Tpou'Kos, r), bv
Trojan, a, Tpcas, <abs, 6 Ugly, dt*.op<pos, ov
Troops-in-battle-array, irapdra^is, ews, Ultimately, vffrtpov
^ Ulysses, Oovfffffvs, tws, Ion. f,os ;
Trophy, rp6rrcuov ;
Att. rpoiraiov OSvo-fvs, 6
Trouble, trAvos Unable, to be, aSvvarfu, fio'ta
Unsightly, oeticeAios, ov
Unskilfully, curopccs
Unsparingness, afydovia, as
Unspeakable, opprjros, ov Yam, /j.fTa(jua\ios, ov
We-have-insensibly-purged, What-you-have-resolved-on, T^
S6-
fJ.V K0.9aipOVT(S avra
We-must, Set xp^ Whatever, SVep
We-must-love, <j>i\riTov Whatsoever, 'oaov 8ffo
; pi.
We-must-not-impart, on Wheel, rpoxos
Wheel, a. 2. tffrpa-
We-ought, xph to, ffrpf(f><a, \j/<a,
pa Who-went, i&v
Whey, opbs Whoever, '6<ms, tyris, on
Which, t>s, $?, t> Ion. duorepos, a, ov ot
;
Whoever-happen-to-be-in-office,
Which (thing), &
ael virarfvovTfs
With-the-fist, irii
Worship, to, crtSu
With-the-view-that, 6<f>pa Worst, fffxaros, TJ, ov
Withdraw, to, oixofuu, a. 2. ipx^A"?*' Worst, to, rjTrdca, T\GO>
Within, tffw ; evSov ; fvrds Worth-a-hundred-oxen, fKar6/*oios,
Within, prep, evrbs ov
'
selves, aviSpcaroi yevopfvoi Would -such -a- man -ever -take, oye
Without-hurt, air/1/j.tuv, ov TOIOVTOS av irore eAoi
Without-its-being-clear -which
-
party Wound, rpavfJM, aros
began-it, aaanpias fnrmipw apdv- Wound, to, ovrdfta, ffca
TOIV Kar-fipijs, ts
AVrapped-up,
Without-necessity, 01; irpoaijicov Wrath, opyii, rjs ; x^^s
Without-reason, /idrTji/ Wreath, Ai, IKOS, T\
Without-tears, aSdKpvros, ov Wrestler, a0A.?7T7Js, ov, o
"\Vithout-the-brass, dxa\Kos, ov Wrestling, (a)
iraXi), TJS
Withstand, to, fvavriSofjuu, a. 1. p. Wretched, r^/juav, ov
Wretchedly-unhappy, SwrroAas, aiva,
Witness, /uaprvp, vpos, o ;
av
Write, to, ypdxpu, \l/w
Witness, to, fTrifutpTvpo^at, vpov- Write-in, to, eyypdtpw, i|/u>
You-would-object, 7rm/u&'rjs a^
Young, vtosjtL ov; comp. vecarepos,
Ye, see You plural a, ov
Year, eVos, eos ; tviavros, ov
Yellow, av8bs, 17, ov Young-dfie,
Yes, fjLu\tffTa Your, addressed to a plurality,
Yes-truly, pos, a, ov ; i/fios, i), ov
Yesterday, Your, addressed to one, ffos, TJ, ov,
Yet, e'rt Doric Tecs, a, ov
Yield, to, vQhiiJU, a. 2. Your-eyes, <rot dtrtre
XP*i
You-have-not-a-scarcity, ov ireyr)
SPECIMENS
m)v, Sia ra fv rp vr\a<f icol rivAqs* riv 8 8ti ri avra fTrirrjSfi6rarov TOI/S
T^S v^ffou at/Spas TW>' AcuceSai/ioct'coi' 6 Ni/cias irpov0vfji fi&i], o-irocSat
i
7ap /c
vioi rjffav avr$ irpotr<pt\is, Kcucfivos ow% TjKiffra irurreixras tavrov r$ rv\linrtf>
TraptSuKfV aAAa rwv "Hvpaicovcriwv rives, us t\fyero, ol piv, Sftaain-ts, Sri
Ttp6s e.vrov fKfKoivo\6yrjvro, ft/^i Paffavi6fi.fvos Sia rb roiovrov
nvas, ori trKoiiffios ijv, oiroSpa, Kal av6ts o~<pi<ri vetartp&v n air" avrov y(vi\rai,
yvrdru rovruv atria, frf6vriKi, riitirrra 8^ dios oiv riav ye fir' (fj.ov 'EXX^-
vuv ts rovro SuerTu^iay atpiKtffBai, Sia rr)v vtvofuffft^vriv ts rb df?ov (Trirri-
Stvcriv.
TRANSLATION
OF
THE SPECIMENS,
1. ATTIC.
sign the treaty, in pursuance of which they were released. For such services
done them, the Lacedaemonians had a kindness towards him ; and it had
been chiefly owing to his assurance of this that he surrendered himself pri-
soner to Gylippus. But a party of the Syracusans, as was generally reported,
fearful because they had kept up a correspondence with him, lest, if put to
the torture, he might now, amidst the general prosperity, involve them in
trouble ;
others also, and not least of all, the Corinthians, lest as he was
rich he might purchase the connivance of his keepers to get his liberty,
and then again might have influence enough to foment fresh stirs to their
prejudice, obtained the concurrence of their allies, and put him to death.
For these, or reasons most nearly neighbouring to these, was Nicias doomed
to destruction:
though the man of all the Grecians in the present age, who
least deserved so wretched a catastrophe, since his whole lite was one uni-
form series of piety towards the Deity.
As for those who were doomed to the quarries, the Syracusans treated
them at first with outrageous severity. As great numbers were crowded
together in this hollow dungeon, the beams of the sun, in the first place,
and then the suffocating air, annoyed them in a more terrible manner,
because the aperture was left uncovered ; and each succeeding night, the
reverse of the preceding day, autumnal and
nipping, through such vicissi-
Gr. Ex.
338 00TKTAIAOT API2TO*ANOT2.
'XOlovv^^av avrwv Sia ffrevox^piav tv r<p avr, Kal trpofftri TtOiv VfKpSiv
6>oD CTT' oAA^jAois tyvvtvi\\j.ivu>v , ot c re T>V -rpav^druv, Kal Sia r^v /uera-
SoXV Kal TO TOJOUTOI' aire6mi](TKOv. Kal carpal ijffai> OVK avficrol, KCU \iptf
SSaror Kal Svo Korv\as ff'nov d\\a re Stro fixits tv [T^] rotovry
/xij' eSSofi^Kovrd rtvas ovrca SijjT^fhjo'eu' a6p6oi firena, irA^v AOiyi'aiW, coi
E\-fi(f>8i)ffav
5e ot v[j.irai>Tfs, axpiSfia fj.fV xa\fTrl>i> f^ftirtiv, o,ua>s 5< OI/K
Tf6\e^ov T&v^e fieyiffTov yevevBai SoKfiu 8' f/j.oiyf, KoL So/ OKOTJ
rov. Kara ITOU'TO. yap irdvrtos viKT}8fmfS, Kal ouSev o\lyov er ovfev KaKova&()-
<rcu>TfS, Trav<a\f6pia. 8^j, rb \fy6fievov, Kal vebs Kal vyes, Kal ovSev 8,TJ OVK
2. API2TO*ANOT5. EK TW
2TPE^IAAH2 2GKPATH2.
'
TJ jixe (caAfTy, u
ST. irpiaTOV fttv o TI So^s, ewT6oAaJ, /carejire yuo.
1
2co. aepo^oTw, Kal Titpifypovia rbv rt\iuv.
ST. eiretT* a?rb rafipov TOWS deoi;? inrfpippovfTs.
aAA' OWK aTrb TTJS 7^1 ; (ep . . .
e|evpoi' op
ft fi-i) Kpt^idcras TO voTj/ua, ol TT)I/ (ppovriSa
1
To give the philosopher a mock sublimity, he elevates him above the
heads of his fellow-creatures by the vehicle of a basket, and then makes
THUCYDIDES ARISTOPHANES. 339
tudes threw them into strange disorders. Thus straitened as they were for
room, they did whatever they had to do on one and the same spot ; and
the carcases of those who died lay heaped up promiscuously together, as
some expired of their wounds, and other.* perished through the vicissitudes
of air they suffered, or some other such deadly cause. At length the stench
became intolerably noisome ; and they were farther oppressed with hunger
and thirst for, during the space of eight months, the allowance to each
:
was only a cotyl of water and two cotyls of bread a day. N?y, whatever
species of misery numbers cooped up in so close a confinement might be
liable to suffer, not one of these but pressed cruelly upon them. They
were allthus thronged and dieted together for seventy days but, after
:
this term, all but the Athenians, and such of the Sicilians and Italians as
had joined with them in the invasion, were sold out for slaves.
What the whole number of prisoners was, it is hard exactly to relate ;
but, however, they could not be fewer than seven thousand. And this
proved to be the greatest Grecian exploit of all that happened in the course
of this war : and, in my opinion, of all that occurred in the whole history
of Greece ; since the event to the victors was most glorious, and to the
vanquished most calamitous for in every respect they were totally over-
:
STREPSIADES, SOCRATES.
C 2
340 APISTOfrANOTS.
ST. ;
rfjfcfr
TJ tppovrls f\K(t TV iKjuaS' is TO ap5a/ua ;
, ipfpofuu, T
s
5 v
ST. T$ 5* dp'
ST. v^ AJ", (
ST.
2 This whole
dialogue, between two characters so forcibly contrasted, is
conceived in the very best style of the author. The Deities and even
Jupiter himself are treated with so little ceremony, or rather with such
sovereign contempt, that we must suppose no danger was attached to the
avowal of these free opinions. It seems to be nothing more than a mere
ARISTOPHANES. 34 [
The vegetating vigour of philosophy,
And leaves it a mere husk.
STREPS. What do you say ?
vehicle for introducing his chorus of fanciful beings, in like manner with
those of his frogs, birds, and wasps, which are all cast in the same whim-
sical characters with this of the clouds. It is, however, a
very apposite
allusion of the clown, when he asks him if he swears, as the Byzantians
do, by the beggarly outh of their own base coining.
by Hercules, when on
s Rescued the point of being immolated to th
manes of Phryxus.
Q 3
APl2TO#ANOr2
j
/xe'7a fff/ifal Nc^cXat, <pavcp<as rjKOvffarf ftov (caAfVtuT
aQov ^xavjfs auto, /ecu Ppovrfjs fj.vmiffaft,ivr]s deoffirrov ;
3. nAATGNOS.
8* dpa om
ev TOVTOIS TO?S iroAAots re-Trap' drra pfvpara, Siv rt
UfV fifyitrrov Kal f^wrarca peov irepl K{>K\y 6 KaXovfuevos CLKtav&s tan, rov-
rov Sf KaravriKpv Kal tvcan'uas ptuv Ax^pwi', t>s 8t' fprfiuav rt rfatiiv frfi
d\\wv, Kal 8-^ Kal VTT& yfjv peaiv eis rr)v Ai'/uo/r afyiKvetrai rrjv AxpowrteSa,
ov at riav rfrt\fvrr)K6rci>v tyvxal rwv TroAAtSr afyutvovvrai, Kai rivas fuxap-
fUcouy xP^vovs pfivaorai, at p.fv futxportpovs, at Se &paxvrtpovs, ird\a> (KTTfu.-
irovrai (is ras rtov iixav yevefffis. Tpiros Sf vorafids rovruv Kara fifcov
fKd\\ei, Kal eyyvs TTJS {KO\TJS (KTriirrfi fis roirov ptyav irupl iroAAy Kasi-
Htvov Kal \ifjanjv voifi fJLeifa TTJS irap' Tjfuv SoAfirTT/s tyovaav USaros Kal
vrj\ov. evrevBfp Se X^P** ninety SoAepiy Kal injAwSTjs' irfpif\irr6/j.fyos Se
SOCR. T
will sift your faculties as fine as powder,
Bolt 'em like meal, grind 'em as light as dust ;
Only be patient.
STREPS. Marry, you'll go near
To make your words good ; 'an you pound me thus,
You '11 make me
very dust and nothing else.
SOCR. Keep silence then, and listen to a prayer,
Which fits the gravity of age to hear
Oh !
air, all-powerful air, which dost enfold
This pendent globe, thou vault of flaming gold,
Ye sacred clouds who bid the thunder roll,
Shine forth, approach, and cheer your suppliant's soul !
*********
Hear me, yet hear, and thus invoked approach
.
They form several very great and large currents ; but there are four
. . .
principal ones, the greatest of which is the outermost of all, and is called
the Ocean. Opposite to that is Acheron, which runs through the desert
places, and, diving through the earth, falls into the marsh, which from it is
called the Acherusian lake, whither all souls repair upon their departure
from this body ; and having stayed there all the time appointed, some si
shorter, some a longer time, are sent back to this world to animate beast.
Between Acheron and the Ocean, there runs a third river, which retire
again not far from its source, and falls into a vast space full of fire there :
it forms a lake
greater than our sea, in which the water mixed with mud
boils, and, setting out from thence all black and moddy, runs along the
earth to the end of the Acherusian lake, without mixing with its waters ;
and, after having made several turnings under the earth, throws itself un-
derneath Tartarus and this is the flaming river called Phlcgethon, the
:
streams whereof are seen to fly up upon the earth in several places.
Opposite to this is the fourth river, which falls first into a horrible wild
place, of a blueish color, calk-d by the name of Stygian, where it forms the
2 4
udovo-i "Srvyiov, Kal rr)v \i/jivriv, *r}v troie'i 6 irora^ios eu.Sd\\uv, "S,rvya 6 8
f^tteawv evrav6a Kal Seivds ovvdueis \aSuv ev r<p vSari Svs Kara TT/J yrjs
irepie\irr6[i.evos X^P^ fvavrtus Tip Tlvpi(p\fye8ovri Kal airavra tv rrj AX-
poviridSi \invrj evavrias, Kal ovSe rb rovrov vSup ovSevl fuyvvrai, aAAa
Kal ouros KVK\CI> irepie\6uv e/j.d?^\ei eis rov Taprapov evavriws r<p Tlvpi-
<p\eytdovrt oVo/ua 5e rovrv earlv, us ol iroiTjral \iyovo~i, KcuKvr6s.
avaSdi/Tfs & avrois ox^tMTa. tativ, firl TOVTIOV atpu<vovvrai ets r-rjv \lp.vT\v,
ST;
Kal tKtioiKovffi re Kal Ka6aipd/J.evoiriav re aSi/crj/wtTcuj' StSovres Si/cos airo\vov-
rat, ti ris n
j5('(cjo'e, rtav re evepyeiricai' rifias <pfpovrai Kara rr)v aiav fKa-
piirrei eis rov Tdprapov, o6ev oinrorf eKSaivovo'tv. O? 5' dv tdffi/j.a, pitv,
jUtyoAa 5e S6^cao~iv TifMprrjKevai dfj.apriifuira, olov irpos trarepa r) fnjrtpa inr'
opyrjs (iiaiov ri trpd^avres, Kal fifrdfj.e\uv aurois rov aAAov jSiov (liaxriv, TJ
av5po<p6voi rotovrif rivl d\\cp rpoirqi yevuvrai, rovrois St fjj.ireae'iv fj.ev eis
rov Tdprapov avdjKr\, e^ireo-6vras tie avroi>s Kal eviavrov eKfi yevofj-evovs
fKd\\ei rd Kvfia' rovs fi.fi> av$po(p6vovs Kard rbv KcaKvrdv rovs Sf irarpa-
Ao/as al jurjTpaAoiay Kara rov Tlvpup\eyeOovra, EireiSav Se <f>ep6fj.evot yt-
VUVTO.I Kara rrfv Xi.fj.vriv rrjv AxepoixriaSa, evravBa fioiaai re Kal KuXovaiv ol
/j.ev ots aTreKrfivav, ol Se ots SSpiffav Koheaavres S" iKerftovo'i Kal Stovrai
'
fciuai fffpas eK@rivai eis rr/v \i/j.vr)V Kal 5eao~8ai Kal edv /uev ireitroiffiv, eK@ui-
vovai re Kal \riyovai ruv KaKtav ei oe /XTJ, (pfpovrai avOis fis rbv Tdprapov
KO\ eKtiQev irdKiv eis rovs irorafMvs /cal ravra irdcrxovres ov irp6repov irav-
ovrai, itplv dv ireiff(ao~iv o'iis rjolKriffav avrrj yap TJ 5//cij into ruv
qualities from the waters of that lake, dives into the earth, where it makes
several turns and, directing its course over-against Phlesrethon, at last
;
meets it in the lake of Acheron, where it does not mingle" its waters with
those of the other rivers ; but, after it has run its round on the earth,
throws itself into the Tartarus by a passage opposite to that of Phlegethon.
This fourth river is called by the poets Cocytus.
Nature having thus disposed of all these things, when the dead arrive at
the place whither their demon leads them, they are all tried and
judged,
both those that lived a holy and just life, and those who wallowed in in-
justice and impiety.
Those who are found to have lived neither entirely a criminal, nor ab-
solutely an innocent life, are sent to the Acheron. There they embark in
boats, and are transported to the Acherusian lake, where they dwell, and
suffer punishment proportionable to their crimes ; till at last being purged
and cleansed from their sins, and set at liberty, they receive the recom-
pense of their good actions. Those whose sins are incurable, and have been
guilty of sacrilege and murder, or such other crimes, are by a just and fatal
destiny thrown headlong into Tartarus, where they are kept prisoners for
ever. But those who are found guilty of venial sins, though very great
ones, such as offering violence to their father or mother in a passion, or
killing a man, and repenting for it all their life-time, must of necessity be
likewise cast into Tartarus but after a year's abode there, the tide throws
:
the homicides back into Cocytus, and the parricides into Phlegethon,
which draws them into the Acherusian lake. There they cry out bitterly,
and invoke those whom they have killed or offered violence to, to aid
them ; and conjure them to forgive them, and to suffer them to pass the
lake, and give them admittance. If they are prevailed with, they
pass
the lake, and are delivered from their misery ; if not, they are cast
again
into Tartarus, which throws them back into these rivers ; and this con-
tinues to be repeated, till they have satisfied the injured persons. For
such is the sentence pronounced against them.
But who have distinguished themselves by a holy life, are released
those,
from these earthly places, these horrible
prisons ;
and received above into
that pure earth, where they dwell ; and those of them, who are sufficiently
purged by philosophy, live for ever without their body, and are received
into yet more admirable and delicious mansions, which I cannot easily
describe, neither do the narrow limits of my time allow me to launch into
that subject.
What I told you but now, is sufficient, my dear Simmias, to show that
we ought to labour all purchase virtue and wisdom, since we
our life-time to
have so great a hope, and so great a reward proposed to us. No man of
sense can pretend to assure you, that all these things are just as I have
said but all thinking men will be positive that the state of the soul, and the
:
J/uX'i'' OVK a\\orply, oAAa Tip avrfjs K6o~juf, a<a$poavvr\ re KCI! Succuoffuvri
Kal avSpfiq, Kal f\tv6fpla Kal aA7)06ia, ovrta irfpififvfi rjjv fis a5ov iropfiav
us iropfvo-6(*,evos 'drav f] flfj.apfj.evt) /caAjj.
AAA,' SVa /xi) Attyov e/c \6yov \eywv, rov irapovros epavrbv fKKpovffu, va-
paAi//a> ravra.' oXA' 8n 76 oixl 8i* ei'SetoJ' OUK eireSawcas, e/c TO</T&>V S^Xov,
oAA^ ^uAetTTwi' rb evavrlov jtveffdai irapa crov TOVTOIS, oTs airavra
jurjSei'
>
iro\iTevTi. Ei/ Ticriv ouv ffv vfavias, Kal irrjvtita. Aa.uirpJs ; ^'((( av <7reT^ T:
Kara TOVTWV Seat, tv rouTots \a[i,irpo(p(ov6TaiTos, luntftaviKitrrtnos, {nroKpirris
f^erd^fiv Kcd Trapad\\ii> e/*e, rbv <rvuvra fifO' V/MOV. Tis ykp OVK
e?5e T>V irdvruv, UTI TOIS /j.tv 3n iraffiv ftirfff-ri TJS ?; TrAetW }? eAaTra-j'
<p06vos ;
TOIIS Se TeOvewras ou5e TW^ f)(6piav ovftfis fTt fjucre?; Ovrtas ovv
tx6vT<av TOVTWV -rrj (pvffft, irpbs TOIS irpb fpavrov vvv eyia Kpivufuu KOJ St<a-
p&j,uai ; /^TjSa/uws' ovre ykp SlKatov, our' icrov farrlv, A.urx'"''n' aAA^ irpbs at,
/cal d\?.w, fi TIVO. $ov\fi, TUV ravra ffoi vpoTipri/JLtvoiv Kal fyavrwv. Kajcfivo
ffK6irei, ir&rtpov Kd\\iov KOI d^fivov ry ir6\ci Sia ras rtov irportpuv fvfpyt-
eiirot ris a.v ^At/cas, ras firl rbv
ffias, ovffas &irfpf*.ey40fis, ovpevovv irapovra
Ploy yiyvofifvas, eis a^apurriav Kal TrpoTrr]\aKtfffj.bv dytiv I; iracriv, 8<roi ri
fj.fr" fvvolas irpdrrovffi, rrjj irapa rovrtav rtfiijs Kal <pi\av6p{inrias f4frf"ti>ai ;
Kal ufa, fi Kal TOUT' apa 5?/t fiiretv, r] fj.fi> t/j.-f) Tro\trtla Kal irpoaipeffis,
aV TIS opOus ffKoinj, rat's ruv r6re titaivovnevuiv av5p<av 6/j.oia, Kai ravrd
ffvpov [t.fv rovs 6vras rdre, rovs 5e irporepov yeyfinj/uifvovs einjvovv, /3d<r-
KOVOV irpayfia Kal rainb iroiowrts ffoi, E?ra \tyeis, us ovSev opoios ei/ixi
(Ktivois tyia ;
o"i/ 5* S/Mios, AIIT^IJ^J ;
& Se a8e\cpbs 6 o~6s ;
aAAos 5e ris riav
vvv frrjrdpcav tyu (iff yap ovStva ^>rj(Ui. AAAct irpbs rovs ^Sivras, <a xp'tyTrf,
;
Ira [t,7)5fv d\\o flirco, rbv a>vra f^tra^e, Kal rovs Kaff ainbv, (nrep TaAAa
iravra, robs iroii\ras, rovs xP v s> TOVS ayiavicrrds. 'O ftlAt^MM', ou% Sri
FAauKou TOU Kapuffriou Kai rivcav freptav irp6rtpov yeyevijjj.fi'uv
aB\Tfruv
aff8(Vfffrtpos ijv, ao~rt<pdviuros (K rrjs OAu/UTr/as airjfci, aAA' Sri riav fur.
f \06vrtav irpbs avrbv dptffra tfidxero, fffrf<pavovro, Kal VIKUIV
avrjyoptvero.
Kal av irpbs rovs vvv Spa /us /Wjropay, Trpos aaurbf, rpbs uvriva J3ov\fi riav
DEMOSTHENES.
soul, not with foreign ornaments, but with ornaments suitable to his nature,
such as temperance, justice, fortitude, liberty, and truth : such a one,
being firmly confident of the happiness of his soul, ought to wait peaceably
for the hour of his removal, as being always ready for the voyage, when-
ever his fate calls him. (London, 1763.)
forget my
subject. I say, then, that it was not from poverty that you
refused your contribution, but from the fear of opposing their interests, who
influenced all your public conduct. On what occasion, then, are jou
spirited and shining ? When you are to speak against your country. Then
are westruck with the brilliancy of your eloquence, the power of your
memory, the excellence with which you act your part ; the excellence of a
true dramatic Theocrines.
We have heard his encomiums on the great characters of former times :
approves himself superior to those who enter the lists with him, he receives
his crown, and is proclaimed victor. So do you oppose me to the speakers
of these times, to yourself, to any lake ycur most favorite character ;
26
AHMO2QENOTJ.
Kf>a/j.i\\ov riji (is ryv varpio'a tvvcias tv Koivf iraffi Keifitviis, tyia ra Kpdriffra
\iyuiv t<f>aiv6fj.r)v, Kal TO!S ejuoTs <J/Tj(>io>ta<ri, Kal VO/JLOIS, Kal irptfffiais avav-
ra, SttpKtiro' vfjuav St ovtiels rfv ovSafwv, irA^v TOUTOIS (Trr;ptdffai TI Stoi.
ETe<8)) Se, & ^ITOT" <a(pe\f, ffvvtSi), KaL OVK tn <rvfj.gov\<av, oAAa TWV roty
Auo S", to dvSpes A6riva?oi, roDra rbv <f>vaei /j.trpiov iro\injv x t *' '*'"
(ourw ydp /uot irept ffjuwrov \tyovri a.v?iri<$>8ov<!rrarrov taceiv) tv fikv TO??
fov<ricus, fty rov yewalov, Kal rfyv rov irporreiov rij ir6\fi irpoalpffftv 5ta<pv-
\drrfiv, tv iravrl St Kaipy Kal irpdfi, rfyv efooiav. Totirou yap TJ (pvtris
Kvpia- rov SvvaffBat 5e Kal urxutw, erepa. TOMTTIV roiwv trap' ejuol fitf**-
par ovs rovrovs Hffirfp Sijpi'a fMi irpoffa\\6vr<av, ovSafJiws irpoSeSaiKa tyu
r-fjv fts vfnas tvvoiav. Tb yap f apx^r tvOvs op6rjv real SiKaiav rfjv oSbv rrjs
tro\iTeias ti\6/*.r)v, ras rt/dis, TOT Svvaffrtias, ras evo~oias ras rrjs irarpitios
&(pa*evtiv, ravras avtiv, /uera rovrtav eivai. OVK eirl fj^v rots trtpeev tvrv-
X^/tafft <t>at$pbs tyiii Kal yeyyOiiis Kara rr}v ayopav irtpiipxof.at, TI)V 8|iai'
ruv 5% rfjs ir6\f<as ayaBwv irt<ppiK^is aKovtii, Kal trrevcav, Kal Kvirruv <is rrjv
ynv, Scffittp ol SvfffffSeis ovrot, ot TT)V /j.tv ir6\iv Siaffvpovfftv, &o~irtp ov%
avrovs Siaffvpovrts, orav rovro iroiwffiv, *|co 8^ ftXtirovffi, Kal tv ols OTU^TJ-
ffdvruv ruv 'EAA^j/tov tvTvxil<rtv tripos, ravr' tiraivovcrt, KOI onus rbv airav-
MI) Sijr', w irdvrts i&eol, /X7)5e!j ravd' v/wv fwtvtvfffitv aAAa fjui\iffra
/j.tv Kal rovrois fttKiite riva vow Kal (pptvas tv6tir)rt' ft 5' dpa txovo~iv oS.
rws avidrws, rovrovs fjitv avrovs KaO' tavrovs efeuAfis KM Trpota\tis tv yfj leal
3aA<TTjj iroii]a-<urf -fifuv 8e rols Kotirols r-fjv raxio~rijv aTraAAay^j/ r<2v einjp.
still1 assert my superiority. At that period when the state was free to
choose the measures best approved, when we were all invited to engage in
the great contest of patriotism, then did I display the superior excellence
of my counsels, then were affairs all conducted by my decrees, my laws,
my embassies ; while not a man of your party ever appeared, unless to vent
his insolence. But when we had once experienced this unmerited reverse
of fortune ; when this became the place, not for patriot ministers, but for
the slaves of power, for those who stood prepared to sell their country for
a bribe, for those who could descend to certain prostituted compliments ;
then indeed were you and your associates exalted; then did you display
your magnificence, your state, your splendor, your equipage : while I was
depressed, I confess it ; yet still superior to you all in an affectionate attach-
ment to my country.
There are two distinguishing qualities, Athenians, which the virtuou?
citizen should ever possess (I speak in general terms, as the least invi-
dious method of doing justice to myself) : a zeal for the honor and pre-
eminence of the state, in his official conduct ; on all occasions and in all
transactions, an affection for his country. This nature can bestow. Abi-
and success depend on another power. And in this affection you find
lities
by such conduct they were not defamers of themselves who look abroad,
:
and, when a foreign potentate hath established his power on the calamities
of Greece, applaud the event, and tell us we should take every means to per-
petuate his power.
Hear me, ye immortal gods ! and let not these their desires be ratified in
heaven Infuse a better spirit into these men
! !
Inspire even their minds
with purer sentiments !This is my first prayer. Or, if their natures are
not to be reformed ; on them, on them only discharge your vengeance '
Pursue them both by land and sea ! Pursue them even to destruction ! But
to us display your goodness, in a speedy deliverance from
impending evils,
and all the blessings of protection and tranquillity !
(T. LELAND, D.D.)
EENO*nNT02.
Eirel Sf firl ras ffKyvas airrthOov, ol fjifi> oAAoi irepi TO eirtrfjUita ri<rcu>,
uiv 7&p (5/wj fjv wrepA^Aa, evflev 5e iroro/*Jis rocrovros rb ftdQos, aiy ^irjSe ret
5e 6p raCro irp6ara, Kal cuyas, Kal &6as, /col <5vouy, a oiroSapcvra Ka2
ovj ap,u(kras tKOffTov acncbr, \idovs apr-f^ffas, /to) oriels Sxnrep tryitvpas,
CKTKOI 81/0 dVSpaj e|ej roD u); KOToSDcai. "Here Se /u^ oAicrfloyeu', ^ SAij a2
getting provisions, and the generals and captains assembled, and were in
great perplexity ;
for on one side of them were exceeding high mountains,
and on the other a river so deep that, when they sounded it with their pikes,
the ends of them did not even appear above the water. While they were in
this perplexity, a certain Rhodian came to them, and " Friends I will
said, !
" I "
Being asked what he wanted ;
shall want," says he, 2,000 leathern
bags. I see here great numbers of sheep, goats, oxen, and asses : if these
are flayed, and their skins blown, we may easily pass the river with them.
I shall also want the girts belonging to the sumpter horses : with these,"
added he, " I will fasten the bags to one another, and, hanging stones to
cover them with earth. I will make you presently sensible," continued he,
" that bear up two men, and the fascines
you cannot sink, for every bag will
The generals, hearing this, thought the invention ingenious, but impossible
to be put in practice, there being great numbers of horse on the other side
of the river to oppose their passage, and these would at once break all thei i
Tovrov rbv Apiova. \4yovffi, rbv iro\\bv TOV xp6vov SiarpiGovra irapa
TTJS -rp{ifj.v7js
ts fjifffijv cea. Toe 5e, fvSvvra re iruaav Trflt dKfvflv, Kal AaS^jra
Trjv KiQdpTjv, ffrdvra ev roiffi f$(i>\iotffi t 8ie|eX6ew' vofj-uv r&v 6pdtov. TtAeu-
T&ITOS Se TOV v6/jLOv, ptyai fav s T'ffv &d\a<Tffa>> tuvTov, us e <X e > ovv T ?
(X ftv > ovSafiT) fjitTievra, avaKtas 5e fX ftv r v "fopQ[i.(<av . 'fls Se dpa irapfivcu
firupavrjvai ff<pi TOV Apiova, Sxnrep exuv (eTrf]Sii<rf. Kal TOVS, eKir\aytvTas,
OVK e'x' en, e\eyx<>Hfvovs, apveeffQat.
TaDra /ueV vw KopivBtoi Te Kal Atfftoi heyovffi. Kal Apiovos fffTt avd-
v t ou M*7 a lr '
Taivdpy, evl $e\<p'u'os eireuv dvSpuiros.
HERODOTUS. 353
2. IONIC.
HERODOTUS. Arion.
Periander was king of Corinth and the Corinthians say, that a most
:
could give any information concerning Arion ; and they answering, that
they had left him with great riches at Tarentum, and that he was un-
doubtedly safe in some part of Italy, Arion at that instant appeared before
them in the very dress he had on when he leaped into the sea ; at which
they were so astonished, that being fully convicted, they could no longer
deny the fact.
These things are reported by the Corinthians and Lesbians ; in con-
firmation of which, a stiitue of Arion, made of brass, and of a moderate
size, representing a man sitting upon a dolphin, is at Taenarus.
(Oxford, 1824.)
3,3 j.,
'HPOAOTOT.
iro\ffuj> Tfyftirfwv yevotaro. 'H 8e Tlvdir} fftyt e'x/wjcre, ra Opttrrtu rov Aya-
fjiifuiovos oaria firayayofievovs. 'fly 6e avzvptiv ov% oloi re eytvfaro rfyv di\Kriv
rov Qpftrreu, Vf}iirov O.VTIS rrjv es Qebv eireipijcro/ieVoiis rbv x^pov fv rtf Kfono
6 O/Jerrijj. EipwrcDcri 8e raCra Toiai Sfoirp6iroiffi \fyei TJ IIi/StTj rd8f
'EffTi ns Ap/ca5i7js Teyeri Aeupiji tvl x^>PV>
'
tvO dvffj.01 irveiovtri Svo Kpareprjs far" avayicris,
'fli 8e /cal
TOtrroJ i\Kovao.v ol AaKeSaiyuci^iot, aire?x
o '/ T^S efeupecrtos ouScv
iXcMTcro^, irdvra Siffipfvoi ts ov S^i Aix??s avevpe ev Ttyey, Kcd avtnvxiri
yn)<rd/jiei>os Kal ffo<ply. Eownjs yap TOVTOV -rbv ^f&vov tirimii\s irpos roi/s
vavffd/jifvos TOV epyov, ""H KOV av, <a tive Adicwv, eiirtp eTSes r6irep tyu,
xdpra, av 9<t>6/Mies, SKOV vvv ovrca rvyxdveis focavfia iroifvpfvos rfyv epyafflyv
TOV ffL$Tipov. Eyw yap fv rpSe &e\wv Ty av\fj (ppeap TroiriffatrQai, opvffarwv
(j,fova$ avOpcairovs TUV vvv, avtf^a. ain^v, Kal fiSov rbv vfKpbv /u.^i' rof
Tou x *- 1*^ * $60 vpstav tyvaas, rovs ave^ovs evpiiTKt e6vras rbv 5e
Ka.1 ryv ffipvpav, rov re rinrov Kal rbv avrirvirov rbv 8 ft\avv6fj.fvov ffiS
rb inj/j.a citl irfifiart Ktififvov, Kara roiovSe rt fiKafav, aiy eirl KOKtf avOp'Jnrov
ffiSripos avevprjrai.
'O Sf, airiK&fifvos es Tfytriv, /col <f>pdcav rrjv evvrov crvfj.<popi]v irpbs rbv
'Sirdprijv. Kal airb rovrov rov XP OVOV % KO>S eiuireipyaro oAA^Xwi', iro\\$
>
After the above, the search for the body was without intermission con-
tinued : it was at length discovered by Lichas, who made the wished-for
discovery, partly by good fortune, and partly by his own sagacity. They
had at this time a commercial intercourse with the Tegeans ; and Lichas
happening to visit a smith at his forge, observed with particular curiosity
the process of working the iron. The man took notice of his attention,
and desisted from his labour. " Stranger of Sparta," said he, " you seem
to admire the art which you contemplate ;
but how much more would your
wonder be excited, if you knew all that I am able to communicate Near !
this
place as I was sinking a well, I found a coffin seven cubits long. I
never believed that men were formerly of larger dimensions than at present ;
but when I opened it, I discovered a body equal in length to the coffin : I
ceeding ill, rightly conceiving that the use of iron operated to the injury of
mankind.
With these ideas in his mind he returned to Sparta, and related the matter
to his countrymen ; who immediately, under the pretence of some imputed
crime, sent him into banishment. He returned to Tegea, told his misfortune
to the man, and hired the ground, which he at first refused
positively to part
with. He resided there for a certain space of time, when, digging up the
body, he collected the bones, and returned with them to Sparta. The Lace-
daemonians had previously obtained possession of a great part of the Pelopon-
nesus ; and after the above-mentioned event their contests with the Tegeans
were attended with uninterrupted success.
(Rev. W. BELOE.)
3,; 6
3. DORIC.
THEOCRITUS.
ir6rvta, &v/j.6v
Xpvcreov, fjvdfs,
2 Ka\ol 8e r ayov
dp/j.' virofffciiKffacra.
8?) re Kd\ri/u,
(pi\6rara ;
ris r, <a
of actauri.
4
^Eolic fonn of i57ro^fi5{(
SAPPHO.
4. JEOLIC.
SAPPHO. To Venus.
Immortal Venus, skill'd to twine
The wiles of love's inconstant art ;
Come then ;
relieve my lab'ring breast
From this deep woe thy hand has made ;
ff ~f><r
\. THETragic writers never use^Sff hrJStf, nor TT for off. Thus they
never said Xftyovytriav for nor irfdrria for Hec. 8.
X^ronjtrfov, i^tiffcru.
2. In systems of anapests they do not always use, nor do they always
discard, the Doric dialect Hec. 100.
3. They are partial to the introduction of the
particle
rot in gnomes, or
general reflections. Hec. 228.
4. The forms Svva, Sdu.va, and the 2nd pers. sing. pres.. indie, from verbs
in a/xat are more Attic than Svvri, &c. Hec. 253.
5. The Homeric sometimes found in the tragic writers, contrary
7j5e is
to the assertion of Valckenaer, Phoen. 1683. Hec. 323.
6. The tragic writers loved the harsh and antiquated forms of words
they therefore preferred the 1st to the 2nd aorist passive ; and the 2nd
aorist pass, is consequently very seldom used omjAAayjjj' sometimes oc-
:
tive and genitive. Euripides has once imitated this form. Hec. 962. :
ytiv wrong, and should be altered to frrov 8e?, xp^l Aeyeu'. Orest. 659.
is
25. The enclitic re in the ancient Greek writers never follows a pre-
position, unless that preposition commences the member of a sentence.
Thus they said,
v T ir6\eos ctpx a ' J
or tv ir^Aedr re apxaus
but not wdAeoj tv T' apx a ' s Orest. 887. -
26. Verbs denoting motion take after them an accusative of the instru-
ment or member which is chiefly used: as, ira ir<$8' ew<]i|ay, (Hec. 1073.)
where ir68' is put for ir65a, and not for TroSi. Orest. 1427.
27. The tragic writers seldom prefix the article to proper names, except
for emphasis, or at the beginning of a sentence. Phasn. 145.
28. The tragic writers do not admit of a hiatus after rl, thus they did
not say Kayb -rl ov $p<ai>, nor did they ask a question simply by (5iro?os :
wherever the question is asked, biroios must be written in two words, &
Trows, not uTrotos. Pham. 892.
29. Avrbs is frequently used absolutely for fj.6vos ; and yet avrbs /j.6vos
is not a taulologous Phaen. 1245.
expression.
30. The article forms a crasis with a word beginning with alpha,
only
when the alpha is short thus, no tragic writer would say TaflAa for ra
:
R 2
PORSON'S CANONS.
a0\a, because the penult of a.S\ov is long, the word being contracted from
dt6\oy. P/icEfi. 1277.
31. Kal irias, and trias Kal, have very different meanings Kal irias is used :
In this latter sense Kal follows the interrogatives ris, irias, trot, trov, ircitos.
Sometimes between the interrogative and Kal, 5e is inserted. Phcen. 1373.
32. 'fls is never used for eis or irpbs, except in case of persons. Homer
has the first instance of this Atticism. Od. P. 218.
'fis aifl -rbv o^otov dytt Qebs us rbv 6/j.diov. Phcen. 1415.
33. The copulative /col never forms a crasis with eD, except in words
compounded with eC : it never makes a crasis with aei. Phxn. 1422.
34. AAAa (J.riv, Kal /J.TIV, ovSe /j.rjv, ov fj.TJv, are frequently found in a sen-
tence, with the addition of the particle yt, but never except where another
word is interposed thus, :
tice which was either universally adopted, or the iota entirely omitted in
the more ancient Mss. The subscription of the iota does not seem to have
been earlier than the 10th century. Med. 6.
36. Porson writes t,vv instead of aw, both in and out of composition,
where the metre and smoothness of numbers will permit but in Iambic ;
very seldom those of the middle, oftener those of the new, very often.
Med. 744.
42. "Ayios and 07^5 are sometimes interchanged in the earlier editions ;
PORSON'S CANONS. 365
but 07*0$ is very rarely used by the Attic never by the tragic writers.
Med. 750.
43. All compound adjectives ending in os were anciently declined with
three terminations as, airopOrjros, awop6r]Ti], airApfhirov ; and after the
:
feminine forms had gradually become obsolete, the poels and Attic writers
recalled them, for the sake either of ornament or of variety. Med. 822.
44. From ae'ipta the ancients formed the future ae/>< by contraction,
apia, the penult being long. But when they contracted aetpca itself into
aipea, then they had a new future, apia the penult being short. Med.
848.
45. The future form /ue/w7J<rojuai (found in Homer, II. %. 390.) is always
used by the tragic writers the form \urr\aQT\aoiuu. is never used the same :
1
This canon not expressed with the usual accuracy of the learned
is
then the iota is added, otherwise not thus, xa.1 ?ra changes into /cSro,
:
but in the crasis of Kal ov there would be no iota. When /cat forms a crasis
with a single vowel, then the iota is not added, as itkv for /ca! ay or Kal Iv.
R 3
366
I.
II.
" The word and the when accompanied with ov, are construed
%<rip like,
with the subjunctive, not with the optative." [M. C. p. 79. Ed. B. p. 82.]
The passage itself from which this remark arises, may easily be found
in the Anabasis of Xenophon. (Lib. 1. 5. 9.) Aij\os TJV 6 KOpos a-irei/Siav
iraffav rr)v 6S6v voplfav, '6<rif jjifv fav $>wnov 'e\6ot, TOffov-rtp aTrapcuTKfvacr-
Torfpep fiaffi\ei fj.a.-)(fi<r6a.i
. . . K. r. \.
2. "Offy and similar words are much used with a.v and the subjunctive
mood, it is true ; but, according to circumstances which will explain them-
selves, they are used with the optative, and with the indicative also some-
times.
a. Whatever part you shall have acted towards your parents, your children
also will act towards you ; and with good reason.
Ol6s -irep
'cu>
itfpl rovs yovets yevy, TOIOVTOI Kal ol ffavrov TraTSes irfpl ffe
DAWES'S CANONS.
367
. Act such a part towards your parents, as you could wish your own children
to acttowards yourself.
TOIOVTOS yiyvov irepl rovs yoveis, O'LOVS av evcuo irepl aecarrbv yiyveffdai
TOVS aavrov -xcuSas.
y. There is not a man living whom he would have less thought of attacking
than him.
OVK effrtv, f(j> '6v-riva av JJTTOV, 7; art rovrov, fj\8fv.
Of the two passages which shall be given from Demosthenes, the first
shows a syntax very common and legitimate in Attic prose ; while the
second exhibits two instances, the one correct, the other suspicious, at
least to my apprehension of it.
Kai yap ovros aircuri Tofaots, ols di> ris peyav aurbv -rrrfo-atro, tr' eiri-
Ev crol
yap dvSpa S oi^eA.eu', a.<p >v
ea/j.fv
III.
" The
Attic style requires either TTO? rts (pvyr,, or irol ris av fyvyoi. An
optative verb following irol, TtoQev, Trov,irS>s, &c. requires av } a subjunc-
-
n 4
3(38 DAWES'S CANONS.
'fls ov6vuos !
<j>fpf,
rl ffoi AH Karaipayiiv ;
Well, what must I give you, to eat 1
Dawes's account justly exhibits the first and second verbs thus used, not
as of the present indicative serving instead of the future ; " but of the
subjunctive, which has often the force of a future, but is more properly to
be referred in its own proper sense to iVo or xp^l '^va understood."
2. 2o<f>o>y Kf\cveis./*.)] rpiffris fudV/xoroy
Why, when you used to Jilchany vessel from your master, I always assisted
you in concealing it [the theft.]
The nature of those circumstances which demand this usage of ovSrf with
the optative mood, if not sufficiently clear from the instance thus given, is
determined by several other instances which Dawes has produced, of <5iroT
similarly employed.
Of eiirov also in the same usage preceding the optative, with the preter-
imperfect tense (for that isthe idiom) of the indicative mood in the other
member of the sentence, Dawes has given proof quite sufficient. [M. C. 256.
Ed. B. 353.]
'AAAjj Se K&AA.7) $<a/j.a.Tiav ffrpci}tp<afj.tvri,
EIIIOT $i\uv BAE^EIEN ottcerwv Se,uas,
'EKAAIEN ri Swrnji/os. Sophocl. Trachin. 924.
And wandering up and down the house, whenever she saw a favourite domes*
tic, so oft the wretched dame would weep.
The particle eirel occurs
in a similar construction. Kol of p-tv 6vot, ri
'
TIS Suaicoi, irpoSpauovres av elcrrt)Kfcra.i' (iroA.u yap rov'lirirou S)O.TTOV erpfxov')
Kal 7roA.il', firel irATjirtdfoi 6 ttnros, TOUTO eiroiovv. Xenophon. Anabas. p.
45. ex emendatione Porsotd ; quern vide ad Eur. Phccn. 412.
V.
" Ar erbs of the form of oei'trot are never used in an
optative sense, or
in a future
joined with Ktv or av ; but are always put after past tenses
sense.
DAWES'S CANONS.
1
This may be easily remembered by the sentence,
DAWES'S CANONS.
37Q
AX^I"' 8' aO roi air o<>0aAua>;/ "EAON, ^ irplv eTrrjfv,
O*P' G riNQ2KHI2 riij.lv bebv 7)Se /cal dvSpa.
" I HAVE REMOVED t/i mist
from thine eyes, that thou SIAYEST DIS-
TINGUISH, &c."
In the second Alcibiades of Plato, sub faiem :
Sxrirep ry Ato/u^Sei <pijal
T},V kQi}vav "O/xijpos airb T<av o<j>da\/j.<2v A^EAEIN Tr)v ax\vv,
'O*P' eu riNflSKOI ripev Stebv ijSeKal dvSpa.
" Homer tells us that Minerva REMOVED the mist from his eyes, that
he MIGHT DISTINGUISH, &C."
Briefly, it is
right to say, eiropev9ri, Iva ftddoi,
and iropeverai or iropeucreTcu, 'Iva /uciflj?.
Yet a few remarks may be useful, and even necessary, to assist the young
scholar in discriminating betwixt real exceptions and such only as appear
so to be : for no one mistakes the following modes of syntax as legitimate.
<f>v\drrTe vvv, STTWS /J.T) oixotro.
r6re yap ((pv\drreTe, ovcas fir) olxnTai.
1. Since the Greek aorist, like the Latin preterite, is not only taken in
the narrative way., as typatya, I wrote, but sometimes also in the use of our
present perfect, I have written ; it may in its latter usage be followed by
the subjunctive. The remark is Dawes's, when speaking most exactly on
the dramatic passage of Homer as varied in narration by Plato, ubi supra,
Professor Monk, ad Hippolyt. v. 1294, has shown very clearly, under what
circumstances this system is
legitimate.
2. Since, narrating past events, the Greek writers, particularly the
in
Tragics, often employ the present in one part, with the aorist in the other
part of the sentence, [vid. R. P. ad Hecub. v. 21.] as well as vice versa, we
are not to wonder, if a syntax like the following be sometimes presented,
with fans or with Iva.
Phcen. 47. Kitpvcra-ei, [revera, eK-fipvfv]
OffTlS fUldoi. K. T. \.
" He proclaimed such a reward to any one, that SHOULD discover the meaning
of the riddle"
3. If the verb denoting the principal act, while it is true of the present
time which it directly expresses, be virtually true of the past also in its
beginning and continuance, the leading verb may stand in the present
tense, and yet the purpose be denoted by the optative mood. In this way,
I venture, though with some timidity, to translate the following passage of
the Rants, vv. 21 24.
E?T'ovx iipis ravr' ecrrl Kal tro\\r) Tpv<pr),
"Or' eyiMi /j.lv av Ai6vvffos, tubs ST^UV/OU,
Avrbs /3a5ifa Kal irovw, TOVTOV 8" ox,
"Is it not quite abominable, that I the mighty Bacchus HAVE BEEN
trudging on foot," while I have had this fellow well mounted, that he MIGHT
feel no fatigue 1
To escape from the emendation of Brunck, and with a view to suggest an
idea which may perhaps be supported ere long by better authority, I risk at
all events a modest conjecture for the
present
4. In
passages where either syntax would be legitimate in other respects,
some peculiarity of the case determines the choice at once.
The following passage presents just such an instance :
'H yap Vfovs epTrovras evpfvei ire'8<j>,
"Aircwra rravSoKovffa muSeiaj 6r\ov,
DAWES'S CANONS.
37!
r', oiKiffrrjpas affiriT]<p6povs
Kpaivtaaiv from Dawes's Canon, M. C. p. 82. But this Canon the Trage-
dians do not seem in all cases to have observed. Cf. Hec. 1128 1133 :"
[1120 1126.] he refers to a passage singularly awkward, and, if it be
allowed to stand correctly at present, bidding more defiance to Dawes's
Canon, than any other which it has yet fallen in my way to observe.
'E8era, fj,rf aoi iroAe',utos \ei<t>0els 6 ircus
VII.
" Ou construed either with the future indicative or with the
jUV are
second aorist subj unctive." [ . C. 222 M
22 1 .] =
"
"Owens, either with or without fj-rj, is construed with the second aorist
R 6
372 DAWES'S CANONS.
active or middle, and with the first aorist passive." [M. C. 228. 29. 30 =
227, 28.]
" Ou with a
subjunctive requires tf." [M. C. 340 331.]
=
According to Dawes, then, the following forms of Syntax, for instance, are
correct :
VIII.
" The active /ue0fw" not construed with a genitive, nor the middle
is
fj.tetffji.ai
with an accusative," but vice versa. [M. C. 238=236.] Vid. et
R. P. ad Med. v. 734.
This one instance, acutely observed, belongs to that nice analogy, by
which several other verbs in their active and middle uses are always dis-
tinguished. In the translation which I shall venture to give, let not the
fastidious reader find cause of displeasure. Where the analysis of language
descends to its last stage, the words by which the attempt is made to de-
velope it, if they do trip a little, may expect to be forgiven.
1. ere. /uefl/eyuai croO.
/ueflirjjiti
IX.
" If a in speaking of herself, uses the plural, she uses also the
woman,
masculine.
" If she uses the
masculine, she uses also the plural. R. P. ad Ilec.
515." [M. C. 317=310.]
In Person's Letter to Dalzel, Mus. Crit. p. 335, it is said, " There is a
stronger exception against Dawes's rule in Hipp. 1120. [Ed. Monk. 1107.]
than can be brought, I believe, from any other quarter."
DAWES'S CANONS.
Whoever will take the trouble of turning to the passage itself and the
note upon it in Mr. Monk's edition, will find that it is all a mere inad-
vertence of the Poet, who either mistook himself at the moment for the
Coryphaea, or hastily transferred from his loci communes a fine train of
reflection, without considering in whose character it must be uttered.
Read that charming Scholium in the Medea, *2.Kaiovs 8e \eytav vv. 192
206, or that, Aeiyct Tvpdwav 119 \30 and say, who but Euripides :
X.
" In Iliad. Z. 479.
'
KoT 7TOT6 TJS flirot, 'ITaTpbs 8 876 iro\\bi> afj-etvuv,
EK iro\efj.ov a.vi6vra.
the commentators make
the construction to depend on i5o>v understood :
And shall hereafter say, ' He is much braver than his father,' ON SEEING
him returning from the war. But the sentence is in truth unelliptical,
and is thus to be construed: Kal irore TIS e/c iro\eu.ov avi6vra. eiiroiAnd
one shall hereafter say OF him as he returns [or after he has returned"]. I
will here add Aristoph. Nub. 1147 :
The wives and daughters of the Trojan soldiers crowded about Hector :
Aristophanes.
2. But another Syntax, less noticed, may commodiously be mentioned
here, the Accusativus rei vel facti, where the governing verb would other-
wise require the genitive case.
Mei6v TI XPy fls t jro.TSaj i) affftaff^tvovs ;
Phcen. 1226.
eav frvrfffKOVTas rj TfTpaiutvous
nveijffOe S. Theb. 228, 9.
Do you desire a greater blessing, than that your Sons should be alive?
If you hear that any of ours are dying or wounded. Perhaps it may
add some illustration to a matter not commonly remarked, if I refer to a
correspondent 'class of expressions in the Latin language.
Spretaeque injuria forms. JEn. i.
Ob iram interfecti ab eo domini. Livy, xxi, 2.
Injuria rov formam spretam fuisse.
Iram eve/to, rov interfectum fuisse ab eo dominum.
That is, not injuria format, not iram domini ; which words taken alone
would convey ideas very different from those intended by Virgil and Livy.
3. Nor has it been duly noticed, that the neuter pronouns in Greek are
DAWES'S CANONS.
XI.
'
5
ftvai TToAAeov ayaOcav d%ios V/MV
4>7j<7ti'
" me
an unintelligible expression. Read curios for
Aya6iav o|<os vfjuv is to
dios." [M. C. 257=254.] And
he goes on to defend his emendation by
what is
plausible enough and by showing that
in the context of the passage,
such a Syntax of airios is familiar to Aristophanes.
1. A
very useful article might be formed under the name of Errores
Dawesiani. I could not say of Dawes, what some one pointedly said of
our great Aristarchus, but too bitterly against the "learned Theban" of
" One
Emmanuel, may learn more from Bentley when he is wrong, than
from Barnes when he is right." And yet beyond a doubt, the detection
of ingenious error in clever men affords instruction as well as amusement, if
properly considered. The quick may learn modesty, and the slow may
derive encouragement, from the very same lesson.
'Hfuv 5' Ax<\Aei;s dios rt/j.rjs, yvvcu,
1
aviiiv intfp yijs 'EAAciSos KoAAtoT avfip. Hecub. 313.
"
Verte, Dignus Achilles, qni a nobis honorem accipiat" Vide R. P. ad
locum : et Elmsleium ad Acharn. 633.
haps seem strange, I shall collect instances in number and variety sufficient to
render it at once familiar and clear.
1. us o|ios fir] &ai>d,Tov r7 iroAei. Xenoph. Mem. ad init.
2. tpyy nsv ri/jiiv o'/S' ^x ovfft T* irpoffriKovra (r<piffiv avrots. Funeral
Oration of Plato, ad init.
3. Tpaifflv S' av fj.eT6iriff6e yfpovcrtov SpKov t\<a/j.ai. Iliad. X. 119.
4. Aelarrf ol ffKrjirTpov irarpca'iov dtpOirOv atel. Ibid. B. 186.
5. TSoffov n-p'uafj.ai (rot ra xmplSia ; \ty. Acharn. 812.
6. nvf]<rofj.ai aoi. Ibid. 815.
7. :K\S6i fjioi, A.ryi6xpio Aioy re/cos, a.TpvT<avt). Iliad. E. 115.
8. Xaipe fj.ot, >
Ha,rpoK\f, Kal tiv A'fScco $6p.ouri. Ibid. y. 179.
9. ~fl TIf\iov frvyartp,
well. In the other instances, the proper rendering will be, at me, <>/' me, at
my hands.
It is a mode of
speaking, to which the old English and the modern
Scottish afford parallels in plenty.
1. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive
evil? Job ii. 10.
DAWES'S CANONS.
376
2. Ask
at Moses and the Prophets. Logan, Sermons.
3.Blithe would I battle, for the right
To ask one question at the sprite. Walter Scott, Marmion.
Before concluding, let me be allowed to suggest, that from v. hat has been
stated above, Brunck's translation of the passage in the Elect of Sophocles
may derive some color and countenance of support. I am inclined to adopt
it as right
Tim yJip ITOT' av, a> (j>t\ia. yeveBha,
TTp6ff(f>opov aKovffdifj.' evos,
Tifi ippovovvTi Kaipia;
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