News of First Greek Book - White

This is a test of the unicode input (again!)

Ex 72

1. ἔλῡον

2. εἴχομεν

3. ἔπεμπετε

Later - I will now be able to input the rest as this method seems to work - but - can anyone explain how to save the exercises in some program (like Word or similar) so I can check them before I post? The only time I see them in unicode is (1) when I use the "Unicode ...

1. Ï„á½°Ï‚ Ï„Ï￾άπεζᾱς λύομεν.

2. οá½￾ Ï„á½°Ï‚ á¼￾μαξᾱς á¼￾Ï￾πάζουσι.

3. αἱ γέφῡÏ￾αι μακÏ￾αι και στεναι ἔσαν.

4. τάς μάχαιÏ￾ᾱς á¼￾ν ἅμαξῃ ἄγειν;

5. ού τὰς φυλακᾱς εκ κώμης εἰς θάλατταν ἄγεις.



Hopefully less typos this time! :oops:

Exercise 58 (page 13)
1. á¼￾πᾴζει
2. ἄομεν
3. βουγουσι
4. πέμπετε
5. λέω

Exercise 60 (p13)

1. Ἑλληνικήν φυλακή ἑκει;
2. ού πύλας λύομεν;
3. φυλακην ἔκω.
4. καλᾶς οικιᾶς ἔκεις.
5. ού οικιᾶς á¼￾ν κομα á¼￾Ï￾παζειν.

No doubt lots of typos, I would welcome any comments! (Not too rude :oops:)

Strange singular/plural word this one I think.

fulakh/ is translated as guard (sing.) or garrison. Now garrison suggests a collection of soldiers or guards to me. So is there any problem with translating Guards as fulakh/
or
fulakai/ ?

I ask this because, during Paragraph 74 of White I translated

You led the guards from the houses to the sea as

e)k tw~n oi)kiw~n e)pi\ th\n qa/lattan h]gej ta8/j fulaka8j.<br />

whilst Koala, on another ...

O Textkit! What an excellent site!!

On another thread (http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?t=217), Koala, has
begun to put up answers for discussion. This is really helpful for a beginner like me. However, I have one or two questions..


For In the village were tents
Comparing one of Koala's answers:

Paragraph 47<br /> <br />e)n tai~j kwmai~j h]san skhnai/.<br />

to mine:
e)n tai=j kw/maij skhnai/ h]san

Apart from my, probably, dodgy accents (they're causing me some problems..) is ...

xai/rete

I am working through White, and I have a question (I'll probably be back later with many more).

The sentence is from 134: kai\ Tissafe/rnhj diaba/llei ton Ku=ron pro\j to\n a)delfo\n w(j e)pibouleu/ei au)tw|

My translation goes: and Tissaphernes slanders Cyrus ... that he is plotting against him.

My problems are:

- How would you translate pro\j to\n a)delfo\n. I guess it is the accusative which surprises me here.

- I fail to see ...

Hello, everyone. I just joined this wonderful community today, and I've been taking advantage of the incredible useful resources posted on the site. Kudos for this; it's exactly what I've been looking for. Anyway, I consider myself a student of language, but other than a terrible first-year Latin class, a year of French and two years of Spanish, I don't have much formal training. So I find myself needing clarification on some of the stuff ...

I'm working out of the White, and came across this sentence to translate, which confused me a bit:

keleu/sei to\n strathgo\n tou\j a)nqrw/pouj lu/ein.

Does this translate as "He commanded the general to destroy the men"? Or "He commanded the general; he destroys the men"? Neither seem right. :?

I've been interested in Greek for long but there's no one here who's studying Greak let alone ancient one.I even don't know how to pronounce,rough and smooth breathing,for instance.
And I also have no experiece of Latin.Must I learn it in advance? :( :?:

Hi,

If you intend to join the white-a group, please PM me a preferred userID, assuming you have one.

I need to create userIDs so that participants can use the GAGLS software for posting/viewing/editing their lessons.

Thank you.

Cordially,

Paul

PS: please include your textkit 'handle' as well