Greetings!
I have finished the eighty lessons in White’s First Greek Book (1896). I’ve been saving my English to Greek exercises and comparing them with the answers given here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160306012213/http://www.rustymason.com/edu/lang/greek/jwwfgb/jww_first_greek_key.html
The site’s creator gives credit to Textkit:
These answers to the First Greek Book by John Williams White (2nd ed, 1896) are being prepared by Rusty Mason. Many thanks to those who have sent me corrections via email, and to Skylax, Koala, and the other Greek lovers at Textkit.com. Please and thank you, Dear Reader, for letting me know if you find this page useful (rusty at this site dot com) and for your corrections to my errors. Ἔρρωσο.
In some cases Rusty showed me where I made a mistake; in others I believe my version is better than his. But there are no solutions posted for the last seven lessons, so I decided to post mine here, one set at a time.
At my stage I can’t do “translation” into Greek. The exercises check whether I can use the proper forms and syntax, within the limits of what the book has presented so far. Not creative and surely of no great interest to anybody but me.
Still, I hope for your corrections.
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(JWW hints in parentheses.)
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This it seems to me must be considered.
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On the following day the generals resolved that they must advance through the mountains.
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For there are many (reasons use the neuter plural) why (δι’ ἅ) I must not do this.
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It would not be surprising if Cyrus should think that he must pursue these men.
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He says that the generals ought to consider what the hindrance is.
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ταῦτα δοκεῖ μοι σκεπτέα.
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τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ ἔδοξε τοῖς στρατηγοῖς διὰ τῶν ὀρῶν πορευτέον εἶναι. [cf. Anabasis 4.1.2]
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πολλά γάρ ἐστι δι’ ἃ ἐμοὶ τοῦτο οὐ ποιητέον. [cf. Anabasis 1.3.15]
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οὐδὲν ἂν εἴη θαυμαστὸν εἰ δοκοίη Κύρῳ οὗτοι διωκτέοι εἶναι. [cf. Anabasis 4.8.11]
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τοῖς στρατηγοῖς φησὶ σκεπτέον εἶναι τί ἐστι τὸ κωλῦον.