Athenaze exercises

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1

I hope it’s okay to keep a thread running for my Athenaze exercises. I’m not sure if it’s better to make a new thread each time?

Chapter 21, exercise 21ι:

  1. As the enemy was advancing into Attica (> use genitive absolute> ), obeying Pericles we all went to the city.
  2. We were very distressed (> use > βαρύνομαι) (at) leaving (our) homes behind.
  3. When (ἐπεί) we arrived at the city, no house was ready (> use > ὑπάρχω) for us.
  4. And so at first we lived in a tower (> use > πύργος), but later we set up house (> use > κατασκευάζομαι) near the long walls.
  5. But when (ἐπεί) the enemy withdrew, we returned to (our) homes.

My attempt below. I’m struggling with word order, and I’m not quite sure I understand the difference between εἰς and πρός right.

  1. τῶν πολεμίων εἰς τὴν Ἀττικὴν προχωρούντων τῷ Περικλεῖ πειθόμενοι πάντες ἤλθομεν πρὸς τὸ ἄστυ.
  2. μάλα δ’ ἐβαρυνόμεθα τὰς οἰκίας καταλιπόντες.
  3. ἐπεὶ δ’ ἀφικόμεθα εἰς τὸ ἄστυ, οὐδεμίαν οἰκίαν ἡμῖν ὑπῆρχεν.
  4. πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ἐν πύργῳ τινὶ ᾤκουμεν, ὕστερον δε κατεσκευασάμεθα ἐγγὺς τῶν μακρῶν τειχῶν.
  5. ἐπεὶ δ’ ἀπεχώρησαν οἱ πολέμιοι πρὸς τὰς οἰκίας ἐπανῆλθομεν.
2

In 3 you want οὐδεμία οἰκία nominative. Otherwise this all looks fine (except τειχέων in 4, ἐπανήλθομεν in 5), and εις/πρός distinction correct.

3

Thank you! Don’t know what I was thinking with that accusative.

The reference grammars in both Athenaze and JACT have τειχῶν (or πληθῶν) for the genitive plural of εσ stem nouns. Is there a reason the uncontracted form is more correct here?

4

You’re most welcome. On τειχέων/τειχῶν, I have the impression that the uncontracted form is more usual, but I could be wrong. It’s supremely unimportant.

5

I’m always glad to learn these bits of real Greek that are evened out in the textbooks.

These are from exercise 22γ. I’ll skip the English this time, hoping it’s clear enough what the sentences are supposed to mean even if there are errors.

  1. ὅστις ἄν πρῶτος ἀφίκηται τὸ ἀργύριον δέχεται.
  2. ἐπειδὰν οἱ πολέμιοι εἰσβάλωσιν εἰς τὴν γῆν, πάντες συνερχόμεθα εἰς τὸ ἄστυ.
  3. οὐκ οἴκαδε ἐπάνιμεν πρὶν ἄν γένηται ἡ ἡμέρα.
  4. μὴ ἀνάβηθι ἐπὶ ἐκεῖνο τὸ ὄρος πρὶν ἄν γένηται τὸ ἔαρ.
  5. ἐὰν σπεύσωσιν οἱ αὐτουργοὶ εἰς τὴν πόλιν, πάντες ἀσφαλεῖς ἔσονται.
  6. ὅσ’ ἄν κελεύῃ ὁ βασιλεὺς δεῖ ἡμᾶς πράττειν.
  7. ἐπειδὴ ὁ παῖς εἰς τὸν ἀγρὸν ἦλθεν εὐθὺς ἐκάλεσε τὸν πατέρα.
  8. οὐκ οἴκαδε ὁρμησόμεθα πρὶν ἄν δείξῃ ὁ ποιμὴν ἡμῖν τὴν ὁδόν.
  9. ὅταν ἐπέλθῃ ὁ δεσπότης, οἱ δοῦλοι ἀναβάντες ἐργάζονται.
  10. δεινὰ πείσεσθε εἰ μὴ ἀκούσεσθέ μου.