Grammar of the Greek Language: For the Use of High Schools and Colleges

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D. Appleton, 1858 - Greek language - 620 pages
 

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Page 297 - Every sentence must necessarily have two parts, a subject and a predicate. — The subject is that of which something is affirmed ; the predicate...
Page 468 - ... the subject of the preceding verb, it is put in the same case." " The subject of the infinitive is put in the accusative." — Crosby's Greek Grammar. " When the infinitive has a subject of its own, it is in the accusative. When, however, the subject of the infinitive is not different from the principal subject of the sentence, it is not expressed." — Kiihner's Greek Grammar. (b) The subject of the infinitive may be,— 1. A NOUN ; as,
Page 416 - ... governs the same case as the verb from which it is derived ; it is qualified by adverbs : it has tense and voice.
Page vi - AN ELEMENTARY GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Containing a Series of Greek and English Exercises for Translation, with the Requisite Vocabularies, and an Appendix on the Homeric Verse and Dialect.
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Page 491 - Anaxagoras of Clazomene taught (according to Diog. Laert. 2, 8) that the sun was a mass of hot iron, as some understand it, or stone, as Socrates takes it here and Xen. Mem. 4, 7, 7, and the moon an earthy body, like our own planet. There was the...
Page 465 - Spa tvBa.ifj.ova flvai. 4. But when the subject of the governing verb is at the same time the subject of the Inf. also, the subject of the Inf.
Page 296 - An objective relation exists between the two parts of the compound, the last denoting the object of the first. This division includes a large number of adjectives, the first...
Page 467 - Sокa, as it appears to me at least; literally, as /appear. The Greeks are fond of changing the impersonal construction into the personal. K. 307, R. 6 and 7 ; C.

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