An elementary grammar of the Greek language PDF
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+± = > % • ''' \ : AN ELEMENTARY GRAMMAR THE GREEK LANGUAGE CONTAININGA SEEIES OF GREEK AND ENGLISH EXERCISES FORTRANSLATION, WITH THE REQUISITE VOCABULARIES, ANDAN APPENDIX ON THE HOMERIC VERSE AND DIALECT. DR. RAPHAEL KUHNER, CORRECTOROFTHELYCEUM,HANOVER. FROMTHEGERMANBT SAMUEL H. TAYLOR, PRINCIPALOFPHILLIPSACADEMY,ANDOVER,MASS THIRTEENTH EDITIOW. NEW YORK IVISON & PHINNEY, 321 BROADWAY CHICAGO : S. C. GRIGGS & CO., Ill LAKE ST. BUFFALO: PHINNEY &CO. CINCINNATI: MOORE,WrLSTACH,KEYS&CO. PHILADSECLHPEHNIEAC:TSAODWYE:RG&-.BYA.RVNEASN.DENBEOWGBEtRJTR,OW:.T.FS..QBOULALCEK9E.NBUSH. AUBURN: SEYMOUR & ALWARD. 1857. •Iff 18-5"? Enteredaccording to Act of Congress,in the year 1846,bj ALLEN, MORRILL AND WARDWELL, inthe Clerk's Officeof theDistrict Court of Massachusetts. PREFACE Raphael Kuhner, the author of the following Grammar, was born at Gotha, in 1802. Among his early classical teachers were Doring, Rost, and Wustemann. At the University of Gottingen, he enjoyed the instructions of Mitscherlich, Dissen, and Ottfried Miiller, men of great distinction in classical philology. For more than twenty years, he has been a teacher in the Lyceum at Hano- ver, one of the principal German gymnasia, and has consequently had the most favorable opportunities, as a practical teacher, to un- derstand the wants ofstudents and to be able to meet them. In addition to several other important works, Dr. Kuhner has published three Greek Grammars: 1. A Copious Greek Grammar, containing 1150 .octavo pages, which has been translated by W. E. Jelf, ., of the University of Oxford. 2. A School Greek Grammar, which has been translated and published in this country. 3. An Elementary Greek Grammar, the original of the present work, from the second editionofwhichaveryfaithful trans- lation was made by John H. Millard, St. John's College, Cambridge, the GreekandEnglishexercisesandthe accom- panying Vocabularies, however, having been omitted. The grammatical principles of the present work, so far as they extend, are the same as those contained in the Larger Grammar already published in this country,the latterbeing designed to carry forward the student in the same coursewhichhehad commenced in the former. The work enjoys the highest reputation among classi- cal scholars both in Europe and America. It is based on a thor- IV PREFACE, oughacquaintance with the laws and usages ofthe language. The author has evidently studied the genius ofthe Greek, and has thus prepared himselfto exhibit its forms and changes, and general phe- nomena, in an easy and natural manner. Hisrulesand statements are comprehensive, embracingunderonegeneral principleavariety ofdetails. The analysis ofthe formscanhardlybeimproved. The prefixes and suffixes, the strengthening and euphonic letters, are readily distinguished from the root of the word. The explanation ofthe Verb in particular, is so clear and satisfactory, that, after a little practice, the student can take the root ofany verb, and put it into any given form, or take any given form and resolve it into its elements. The rules of Syntax, too,are illustrated bysofull a col- lection of examples, that the attentive student cannot fail to under- stand their application. The work is designed to be sufficiently simple for beginners, and also to embrace all the more general principles of the language. The plan is admirably adapted to carry the student forward under- standingly, step by step, in the acquisition of grammatical knowl- edge. As soon as the letters and a few introductory principles, to* gether with one or two forms of the verb, have been learned (the sections marked with a [f] being omitted), the student begins to translate the simple Greek sentences into English, and the English into Greek. As he advances to new forms or grammatical princi- ples, he finds exercises appropriate to them, so that whatever he commits, whether forms or rules, is put inimmediate practice. The advantage ofthis mode of study is evident. The practical applica- tion of what is learned is at once understood; the knowledge ac- quired is made definite; the forms and rules are permanently fixed in the mind, and there is a facility in the use of them whenever they may.be needed. The student, who attempts to commit any considerable portion of the Grammar without illustrative examples, finds it difficulttoretaininhismemorywhathehaslearned. There is a confusion and indistinctness about it. Oneformoftenrunsinto another, and one rule is confoundedwith another. But ifeach suc- cessive principle is carefully studied, and then immediately put in
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