EXPLANATION OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS.

Apheresis the cutting off of one or more letters at the beginning of a word as ice for Ai6w.

Apocope, cutting off one or more letters at the end.
Apodosis the last part of a sentence.
Anastrophe moving the Accent back.

Attraction see page 246 and page 249.

Anacoluthon a construction in which the end does not grammatically correspond with the beginning.

Connective vowel (called also mood-vowel,) see page 100 at bottom.

Crasis a contraction of two vowels into a long one.

Characteristic the letter preceding the w at the end of a verb. In ,, μ, the former letter is the characteristic.

Diaresis the division of two vowels, as άüжvoç.

Diastole and hypodiastole see page 21, "stops and marks."
Elision the omission of the form of two vowels.

Epenthesis the insertion of a letter in the middle of a word, as πτόλεμος for πόλεμος.

Heteroclite a noun of irregular declension.

Hiatus the concurrence of an initial with a final vowel. Hyperbaton a construction where words are placed out of their natural order, ἐν ἄλλοτε ἄλλῳ for ἄλλοτε ἐν ἄλλῳ another time in another.

Metaplasm the name given to a noun, that forms its cases from an

obsolete nominative.

Metathesis transposition of letters, see page 185.

Paragoge adding a letter to the end, as ivi for ¿».

Prosthesis addition of on or more letters to the beginning

of a word.

Protasis, the first part of a sentence.

Synæresis the contraction of vowels.

Synizesis or synecphonesis, see page 274.

Syncope omission of one or more letters in the middle of a

word.

Tmesis separation of the preposition of a compound verb from its verb ἀπ ̓ ὧν ἔδοντο Ionic for ἀπέδοντο οὖν.