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. rv- \ 6 t,SL\ A MINIMUM OF GREEK A HAND BOOK OF GREEK DERIVATIVES For the Greek-less Classes of Schools andfor Students of Science r HENRY Wi AUDEN, M.A. PRINCIPAL OF UPPER CANADA COLLEGE, TORONTO; LATE SIXTH FORM MASTER OF FETTES COLLEGE, EDINBUKGH; FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND BELL UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR A. E. TAYLOR, M.A. ASSISTANT MASTER AT UPPER CANADA COLLEGE, TORONTO TORONTO MORANG & LIMITED CO., 1906 COPYRIGHT BY MORANG & CO., LIMITED, 1906. COPYRIGHT IN GREAT BRITAIN. PREFACE THE educated man must know some Greek. What- ever his training.has been, he usually does know some Greek at middle age, i.e. he can understand and derive Greek scientific words fairly correctly, but his knowledge has often been reached by circuitous and toilsome paths. This little book is an attempt to give this knowledge in a more systematic and well-ordered fashion, and thus save trouble and an unnecessary tax on the memory. It is easier to have some system for the explanation of such words as dacryocystoblennorrliagia or cryptogenetic actinomycosis than to rely merely on the memory. Greek is the international language of science, and we are nowadays all of us scientific a few hours spent in ; acquiring a well-ordered elementary knowledge at the start are amply repaid. It is just possible, too, that this knowledge, though very elementary, might lead some to take a further interest in the Greek language because it is the most perfect of languages, and in Greek literature because it contains the thoughts of the greatest thinkers in the world, and so realize the claims of Greek to a place in any scheme of true education. If there be one such convert, we shall be content. The book does not profess to be exhaustive, or to deal with every Greek derivative, but the intelligent user will iv A MINIMUM OF GREEK not, we think, go astray. We are, of course, indebted to German predecessors, notably Dr. Hemme and Dr. Flaischel, whose little books are the most successful of the many German books on this subject. In Ger- many no boy passes through a secondary school of any sort without following a course of work such as is out- lined in this booklet, and where Germany leads, educa- tionally, we may usually follow with advantage. HENRY W. AUDEN. ALLAN E. TAYLOR. TORONTO, 1906. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Arch.
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