A first Greek book; with reference to the grammars of Hadley-Allen and Goodwin

Lewis Leaming Forman

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GIFT OF
FV'-fA FIRST GREEK BOOK
WITH REFERENCES TO THE GRAMMARS
OF
BADLEY-ALLEN AND GOODWIN
By L. L. FOEMAN, Ph.D.
instructor in greek in cornell university
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1899o."u)i-
J^.X^'l^-T^,
Copyright, 1899, by Harper & Brothers.
All rightt reserved.TO
MY BEST FRIEND
George prentice Bristol
L. L. F.
417639Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2007 with funding from
IVIicrosoft Corporation
http://www.archive.org/details/firstgreekbookwiOOformrichPREFACE
oflPer short and eas}^ intro-This book does not pretend to a
andduction to the Greek language. For Greek is not easy,
Even theany short introduction can only prove inadequate.
must postpone manyone year's work which this book contains
subjects, which properly should be mastered before the stu-'
dent should be set to reading a Greek author. A man must
sow before he can reap. Discipline in a language cannot be
literature.got at the same time with the pleasures of its
They are mutually destructive, and discipline must precede.
That impatient haste, therefore, which opens at once with the
first page of Xenophon's Anabasis with little or no prelimin-
ary hard labor reaps invariably its whirlwind of quick eiinui^
"^^
despair, and vain regret
Nor is the book intended for self-instruction, or for ill-pre-
pared teachers. Though somewhat has been done, it is hoped,
to simplify difficulties, yet in the way of supplementary ex-
planation and drill much remains to be done by the good
teacher who knows his Greek Grammar by heart. Indeed
success with this or any other book must be due mainly to
* Yet if Greek be swept utterly lieout of our educiUion, the blame will
not so much with the youth of the country as with us teachers, who yield to
their importunities. Because tlie babe in the cradle cries, we permit it first
0)?tion of Study (or of No-Study), then Option of Method. These two
Options were, I suspect, the two serpents carelessly allowed to invade the
cradle of little Hercules, but stran^^led by that sensible young hero. Can
we hope, however, for this happy issue now ?vi PREFACE.
the wisdomthe diligence of the pupil and of the teacher ; and
the author of the manual will serve his purpose well if he
merely provides suitable material to, and does not hinder, the
workers.
Xenophon's Ancibasis being usually the first Greek work
has been ke})t ever in mindread, its vocabulary in the prep-
aration of the following exercises and stories. But many
words have been admitted besides, that belong to the gen-
prose, and few others also oferal body of Attic a rarer or
occurrence, because they are the primitives from whichpoetic
other common words are derived. Such are /cXeo?, irehov,
appear in the Anahasis only ina6evo<i, etc., which derivative
forms.
Since the beginner in Greek is usually confronted with
and the same time—many new difficulties at one strange
accents, varieties of inflection in the first declen-characters,
sion, totally new vocabulary, and so on, an attempt has been
—difficulties singly ^Ist) givingmade to present these by a
exercise in words already knov/n (Alcibiades, Demos-reading
thenes, etc.) , by teaching the 0-Declension, which is sim-2)
ple, before the A-Declension, which is varied—a plan long
practised by experienced teachers ; by grouping words ac-3)
their accent and offering drill on each group sepa-cording to
(oxytones, paroxytones, etc.).rately
A word of explanation must be offered regarding the Eng-
translated into Greek. Since goodlish of the sentences to be
was the result aimed at, the Greek sentence was reg-Greek
ularly composed first, and the English translation of it made
original,as suggestive as possible of that rather than as a
model of English style.
The paragi'aphs into which the book is divided are of quite
treated. Theyunequal length, dependent upon the subject
amount of the dailyare, therefore, not intended to suggest the
it that often the long paragraphslesson. But may be added