The Irregular Verbs of Attic Prose: Their Forms, Prominent Meanings, and Important Compounds; Together With Lists of Related Words and English Derivatives (Classic Reprint)

In writing this book my aim has been to help students in the two directions in which they find the greatest difficulty in Greek, viz. the mastery of the forms and the acquisition of a vocabulary. Under the head of the forms, the verb offers by far the greatest difficulty. I have sought to make it easier in the following ways. First, by giving a full treatment of the regular verbs at the outset. Unless the learner has a clear idea of what is regular, he cannot be expected to have a good grip on what is irregular. Hence I have been careful to present the formation of pure, mute, and liquid verbs as clearly and simply as I could. Second, by limiting the forms almost entirely to the usage of Attic Prose. Strict consistency in this was neither possible nor desirable. But the line had to be drawn somewhere, and I chose to draw it here; and as forms and words occurring first in Aristotle are marked unattic, it will be seen that the line is drawn rather sharply. Still, any one who has the Attic forms well in hand will have little trouble in recognizing or locating deviating forms. Third, by giving the meanings of the verbs rather fully so fully, indeed, that I fear I shall seem to have encroached too much upon the special sphere of the lexicon. But the meaning of a word is its life, and I cannot think the space misappropriated which has been given to showing the significations of the vei bs; and of course the best way to do this was by giving examples. These have all been translated, as otherwise they would fall far short of serving their pui-pose. Only the more common meanings are given, to serve as an outline to be filled in aftei-wards by reading. As a help in acquiring a Vocabulary, important compounds have been given, and also words of kindred orin or meaning.
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