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Hi all,

I'm in my second semester of Intermediate Greek. I used Chase and Phillips last year- took extensive notes, but they've gone missing. I'm finding that Herodotus is slow going.

Does anyone know of a site with printable material- either for reference or review? I would benefit greatly from having a quick way to check verb and noun paradigms. I've been working on making my own, but that takes rather a lot of time ...

I'd be grateful for a little help in this area.

At Thucydides 6.6.1 we have:

τοσαῦτα ἔθνη Ἑλλήνων καὶ βαρβάρων Σικελίαν ᾤκει,καὶ ἐπὶ τοσήνδε οὖσαν αὐτὴν οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι στρατεύειν ὥρμηντο, ...

'So numerous were the peoples of the Hellenes and of the barbarians who were living in Sicily, and so large was the island against which the Athenians were eager to undertake an expedition, ...'

Because of the context I take ὥρμηντο here as imperfect, ...

Smyth 911:

A predicate substantive or adjective may often be distinguished from an attributive ( cross912) in that the former implies some form of εἶναι be. Thus, πρεσβευτήν and εὐτυχῆ in 910. After verbs signifying to name or call, εἶναι is sometimes expressed ( cross1615)

Smyth 914:

Under adjectives are included participles: ὁ μέλλων (attrib.) πόλεμος the future war, ταῦτα εἰπὼν (pred.) ἀπῄειν saying this he went off, ὁρῶ σε κρύπτοντα (pred.) I see you ...

Χορός

975
τίπτε μοι τόδ’ ἐμπέδως
δεῖμα προστατήριον
καρδίας τερασκόπου ποτᾶται,
μαντιπολεῖ δ’ ἀκέλευστος ἄμισθος ἀοιδά,
980
οὐδ’ ἀποπτύσαι δίκαν
δυσκρίτων ὀνειράτων
θάρσος εὐπειθὲς ἵ-
ζει φρενὸς φίλον θρόνον;

Having some difficulty trying to figure out where δίκαν fits in here, looks like the subject of ἀποπτύσαι but the translations don't appear to support that.

A.Ag 963-965
πολλῶν πατησμὸν δ’ εἱμάτων ἂν ηὐξάμην,

δόμοισι προυνεχθέντος ἐν χρηστηρίοις,

ψυχῆς κόμιστρα τῆσδε μηχανωμένῃ.


Seems like δόμοισι is in the wrong place. C. Collard translates it as if δόμοισι is the location for receiving the oracle in accord with the word order. My first inclination was to read δόμοισι with the following line as the place where Agamemnon would return (remove the comma after χρηστηρίοις). Don’t know if that is a possible reading. ...

Iliad 18.234-236
μετὰ δέ σφι ποδώκης εἵπετ᾽ Ἀχιλλεὺς
δάκρυα θερμὰ χέων, ἐπεὶ εἴσιδε πιστὸν ἑταῖρον
κείμενον ἐν φέρτρῳ δεδαϊγμένον ὀξέϊ χαλκῷ

Why is δεδαϊγμένον accented like this? Why doesn't it have a recessive accent, "δεδαΐγμενον"?

Smyth 2510:

In general statements in the subjunctive with ἄν or the indicative, the relative, referring to a person, is often without an antecedent and has the force of εἴ τις. In such cases the main clause contains a substantive or a neuter adjective with ἐστί (which is commonly omitted), and the relative is the subject of the sentence or in apposition to it.

συμφορὰ_ δ', δς ἂν τύχῃ κακῆς γυναικός it is a calamity ...

Here is something you will not find in the Danker's big NT lexicon, a parallel to Galatians 5:1 in A.Ag 953

Gal. 5:1 Τῇ ἐλευθερίᾳ ἡμᾶς Χριστὸς ἠλευθέρωσεν· στήκετε οὖν καὶ μὴ πάλιν ζυγῷ δουλείας ἐνέχεσθε.

A.Ag 953 ἑκὼν γὰρ οὐδεὶς δουλίῳ χρῆται ζυγῷ.

“no one willingly submits to the yoke of slavery”

I looked at the reference works on hand for Galatians spanning 150 years and didn't find any reference to A.Ag 953, not ...

944
Ἀγαμέμνων
ἀλλ’ εἰ δοκεῖ σοι ταῦθ’, ὑπαί τις ἀρβύλας
λύοι τάχος, πρόδουλον ἔμβασιν ποδός.
καὶ τοῖσδέ μ’ ἐμβαίνονθ’ ἁλουργέσιν θεῶν
μή τις πρόσωθεν ὄμματος βάλοι φθόνος.
πολλὴ γὰρ αἰδὼς δωματοφθορεῖν ποσὶν
φθείροντα πλοῦτον ἀργυρωνήτους θ’ ὑφάς.

" but if it seems that way to you, someone
quickly unfasten boots ... "

ὑπαί τις ἀρβύλας: I would assume that ἀρβύλας is an acc. pl. not a gen. sg.,
ὑπαί = ὕπο may be functioning ...

This from Taylor's Greek to GCSE:
ο ουν Σολων προφασιν εχων την θεωριαν εξεπλευσε και εισ τε την Αεγυπτον ως τον βασιλεα τον Αμασιν και δη και εις την Λυδιαν ως τον Κροισον αφικετο.

Solon has given the Athenians a set of laws to reform their political system. The Athenians have agreed to give the new system 10 years to work and things are set up so that no changes can be made without Solon. ...