Exercise 65

[Carola]

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!

[Skylax]

Good job ! Only minor inaccuracies :

1. Ï„á½°Ï‚ Ï„Ï￾άπεζᾱς λύομεν.
Ï„Ï￾απέζας accent : see paradigms. It is because the accent cannot go backwards farther than the 3rd "short beat" (long alpha = Two beats, so the epsilon is the 3rd beat from the end backwards)

2. οá½￾ Ï„á½°Ï‚ á¼￾μαξᾱς á¼￾Ï￾πάζουσι.
Ï„á½°Ï‚ á¼￾μάξᾱς (accent) οá½￾χ á¼￾Ï￾πάζουσιν (nu movable) would be more natural.

3. αἱ γέφῡÏ￾αι μακÏ￾αι και στεναι ἔσαν.
ἦσαν with an eta

4. τάς μάχαιÏ￾ᾱς á¼￾ν ἅμαξῃ ἄγειν;
μαχαίÏ￾ᾱς accent again á¼￾μάξῃ accent ἄγει NO nu movable here !

5. ού τὰς φυλακᾱς εκ κώμης εἰς θάλατταν ἄγεις.
á¼￾κ don't forget the breathing ἄγει is the 3rd person singular.

(Note : I say nothing about missing accents)

[Carola]

Thanks for your help with these - it is much appreciated. I hope to get some more done over the Christmas break.

Far worse than Greek next week will be trying to see if I can still get into my wetsuit! An annual ritual accompanied by much pain and cries of horror - I can't have put on that much weight! At least I frighten away the Great White sharks that live near Adelaide.

I hope you all have a very happy Christmas and New Year!

[Skylax]

At least I frighten away the Great White sharks that live near Adelaide.

Be careful : if you are right, you will rather attract them !

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !
Enjoy your summer !

[Hammurabi]

Hi!!


I have two quick questions about the last two sentences...

4. τάς μάχαιÏ￾ᾱς á¼￾ν ἅμαξῃ ἄγειν;
isnt it better to use εἰς instead of á¼￾ν to emphatise the inside location and the article since we are referring and specific wagon ?
4. Ï„á½°Ï‚ μαχαίÏ￾ᾱς εἰς την ἄμαξαν ἄγει;

5. ού τὰς φυλακᾱς εκ κώμης εἰς θάλατταν ἄγεις.
well, I little more difficult for me, it is better to add the article since we are talking about specific villages and sea? and á¼￾κ isnt follow by genitive?
plus I think it would be better if we use á¼￾πί instead of εἰς to indicate the mouvent "over" and not "inside" the sea?
5. Ï„á½°Ï‚ φυλακᾱς á¼￾κ τῶν κωμῶν á¼￾πί τῆς θάλαττης οá½￾κ ἄγει.

[Skylax]

Hello !

Hi!!


I have two quick questions about the last two sentences...

4. τάς μάχαιÏ￾ᾱς á¼￾ν ἅμαξῃ ἄγειν;
isnt it better to use εἰς instead of á¼￾ν to emphatise the inside location and the article since we are referring and specific wagon ?
4. Ï„á½°Ï‚ μαχαίÏ￾ᾱς εἰς á¼￾πὶ τὴν θάλατταν ἄμαξαν ἄγει;

I don't think so because the swords are carried on the wagon, thus here the swords don't come into the wagon, and εἰς means rather "into", denoting a "entry".

5. ού τὰς φυλακᾱς εκ κώμης εἰς θάλατταν ἄγεις.
well, I little more difficult for me, it is better to add the article since we are talking about specific villages and sea?

Yes you are theoretically right ! However, even so, the sentence sounded Greek.

and á¼￾κ isnt follow by genitive?

κώμης is the genitive singular but you are right : the exercice called for a plural, thus κωμῶν !

plus I think it would be better if we use á¼￾πί instead of εἰς to indicate the mouvent "over" and not "inside" the sea?
5. Ï„á½°Ï‚ φυλακᾱς á¼￾κ τῶν κωμῶν á¼￾πί τῆς θάλαττης οá½￾κ ἄγει.

I don't think so, because εἰς here is the fitting word for "towards". á¼￾πί τῆς θάλαττης (with genitive) would mean "over the sea" (without movment).
á¼￾πὶ τὴν θάλατταν with accusative would not be wrong but could easily denote hostility or be unnecessarily accurate ("up to the seashore")

[Hammurabi]

thanx!

I see you have king Hammurabi's head on your image???:O

[Skylax]

I see you have king Hammurabi's head on your image???:O

Almost ! It is the head of Sargon of Akkad, a masterpiece I have always admired.