Globe 8vo. Price 2s. Macmillan's Greek Course FIRST GREEK GRAMMAR ACCIDENCE BY W. GUNION RUTHERFORD, M.A., LL.D. LATE HEADMASTER OF WESTMINSTER London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY All rights reserved "This Grammar has been revised and in part re-written, but the general arrangement remains as it was. To change this might have done away with something that commended it to teachers; for the success of a school-book is often due to the fortunate accident of one man's work happening to meet the views of the majority. "If the book is larger, it is not that I have abandoned the idea from which it first sprang, namely, that the part of an elementary Grammar is to state rules and leave exceptions out; but in response to the criticism of many who have used the book, the presentment of the matter has been made more clear and attractive by printing on two pages what before was printed on one. Indeed, far from relinquishing the first idea, I have carried it out more faithfully, omitting such forms as occur seldom, and selecting as examples of inflexion the most common words that I could find. As the Grammar was written when men had but begun to urge the views to which it was meant to give shape, I was glad of an opportunity of incorporating in a new edition the latest results of the free discussion of the last ten or twelve years. And such an opportunity came when it was proposed to publish a 'Greek Course,' of which this First Greek Grammar should be the starting point. 66 The aim of the new series is to bring into the foreground the great main lines of Greek accidence and syntax,-in short, to teach the regular and ordinary modes of expression in use at the time when the most precise of languages had reached its highest precision. Accordingly it was necessary carefully to revise the Grammar if it was to take its proper place in the series." PRESS OPINIONS British Weekly.-"Messrs. Macmillan and Co. have made an excellent beginning of their 'Greek Course' by the issue of a First Greek Grammar, by W. Gunnion Rutherford, LL.D., Head-Master of Westminster; and Easy Exercises in Greek Accidence, by H. G. Underhill, M.A., of St. Paul's Preparatory School. These are school books of the kind that make one wish to be back at school again. Dr. Rutherford's Grammar is already well known, having first appeared ten years ago, and having passed through many editions since. It is in two parts, the first of which contains such forms as the beginner must know, while the second contains additional information of a more advanced kind. We could suggest no improvement on this little book. If the Manual of Syntax is as good, the teaching of Greek will be materially facilitated." Cambridge Review.-"This reprint has much to recommend it. In the hands of a wise and discriminating teacher there is ample scope for an ingenious interlacing of the threads of knowledge." We confess to not liking the arrangements of the middle and passive of the regular verb, and we miss some useful landmarks which the revolution of the last few years has apparently swept away. This is more than compensated for by the introduction of some original matter. Chapters III. and XII. are likely to be appreciated." Journal of Education.-"A good elementary Grammar, if for no other reason, because the first part contains everything that a beginner should learn and nothing that he should omit. The arrangement is good and the type clear. Part II. contains more advanced matter, such as the laws of contraction and accentuation, and irregularities of accidence. The book contains no syntax, which in our opinion is by no means a drawback." 126 FIRST GREEK GRAMMAR CHAPTER VI SSX.-XVII FIRST DECLENSION 39. Or the words you have already learned, 'Epuns is really a contracted form of an older Eppéas. There are also a few feminine nouns contracted in the same way, as σvкn, fig-tree, for συκέα. But a few contract the ea into a, which they retain throughout, as μvâ, mina (a sum of money), for μvéā, βορρᾶς, north wind, for βορέας. The plural is always the same whether for masculine or feminine, for contracted or uncontracted nouns. 40. The dative plural was originally formed by adding to the stem, as, stem rīμa, dative plural ríμa-, and this longer form you will find in Attic poetry, and occasionally in elevated prose. The genitive plural was formed by adding -wv to the stem, as τιμάων, which became by contraction τιμῶν. It is due to this fact that all nouns of the first declension have Vowels long by nature, except ŋ and w, are marked long, unless they carry n the circumflex accent. Globe 8vo. 25. Macmillan's Greek Course FIRST GREEK GRAMMAR SYNTAX BY W. GUNION RUTHERFORD, M.A., LL.D. LATE HEADMASTER OF WESTMINSTER London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY All rights reserved EASY EXERCISES IN GREEK SYNTAX 63 B. DEPENDENT INTERROGATIVE PROPOSITIONS. S$ 246-252 Single: introduced by ὅστις, ὁποῖος, ὁπόσος, ὅπου, ὅποι, εἰ, etc. Rule. When principal verb primary, same mood and tense as if a direct interrogative proposition: when principal verb historic either (1) same mood and tense, or (2) same tense of optative. For Interrogative Particles see Chapter X. Note.-Negative un if question is deliberative. ἐρωτᾷ ὅστις ἐστίν. ἤρετο ὁπόθεν ἦλθον. οὐκ οἶδεν ὅποι τράπηται. οὐκ ἦσαν ὅποι τράπωνται. ἤρετο πότερον αὐτὸς εἰσιν ἢ σύ. ἠρόμην ὅστις εἴη. οὐκ ἤδη ὅποι τραποίμην. ἤρετο πότερον ἐγὼ ἴοιμι ἢ σύ. § 247, 248. ἤρετο εἰ οὐκ αἰσχύνεται. ἐρωτῶσι πότερον δέδρα κεν ἢ οὔ. σκόπει εἰ ἔτι οὕτως ἔχει ἢ οὔ. οὐκ ἦσαν πότερον πορευθῶσιν ἢ μή. ἐβουλεύετο εἴτε πέμποιέν τινας εἴτε πάντες ἴοιεν. λέγοι τἀληθὴ ἢ μή. § 249. ἐβουλεύετο ὁ φώρ εἰ Anticipatory Construction. § 250. τοὺς νόμους σκοπῶμεν ὅ τι διδάσκουσιν. ἠπόρει περὶ τῆς ὁδοῦ ὅποι φέρει. § 250. |