A Greek Grammar: For the Use of Schools and CollegesW.J. Hamersley, 1860 - Greek language |
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Page 305 - Hurl'd often cuts off the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel; though he does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but lull retains it in writing like the Latins.
Page 305 - ... or song in honor of Bacchus, full of transport and poetical rage. Of this species of writing we have no remains. A song of Bacchus in which the wildness of intoxication is infused. Any poem in which ecstacy and wildness are expressed in kind. Caesura.
Page 12 - The letters are divided into Vowels and Consonants. The Vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y. The remaining letters are Consonants.
Page 45 - TO'I, pa, and the inseparable particle -$e. 2. If the word before the enclitic has the acute on the antepenult, or the circumflex on the penult, the accent of the enclitic is dropped, and the acute is placed on the last syllable of the preceding word ; as avOpunr6<j TK, Sei^ov noi, OVTOS 3.
Page 49 - ... called masculine, feminine, or neuter, when it requires an adjective or article to take the form adapted to either of these genders. The gender is often indicated by prefixing the article ; as (ó) ¿vr¡p, man ; (rç) *fwr\, woman ; (то) thing.
Page 305 - Caesura in metre is the separation, by the ending of a word, of syllables rhythmically or metrically connected.