The Beginners Greek Composition - Based Mainly Upon Xenophons Anabasis, Book I.
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PREFACE. COLLEGE admission requirements in writing Greek practically determine the scope and fix the aim of instruction in the schools. Though these requirements vary in degree, they point to the same end - power and knowledge of the language sufficient for translating easy narrative or address into Attic Greek. So far as amount of acquisition can be approximately measured, nothing could be more reasonable and just. By working consciously and definitely toward that goal by the best method, the learner is sure to derive the highest benefit that the study can yield. but what is the best method, or at least, a mood method It is now pretty generally admitted that it is not one that divides and divorces writing from reading. Assuming that the learner has a good mastery of inflections and such knowledge of simpIe constructions as is ordinarily acquired in the first years study, the basis of exercises for beginners should be a Greek text that he has read and studied with care. In this way the learner turns to account not only all that he has consciously acquired, but what, on the whole, is of greater importance, all that he has unconsciously absorbed. The question then arises, shall practice in writing be applied to and accompany a large area of text, or shall it rest in the elementary stage upon a limited portion of an author The editors, as -ill be seen, have chosen the latter alternative, and have based the main part of the exercises upon the first book of Xenophons Anabasis. The method assumes of necessity, and this is conceived to be one of its chief recommendations, great familiarity with the original. Such a ready command of the Greek original can neither be required nor expected of more than a limited amount of text. Nor is it essential. Not all of the seven books of Xenophons Anabasis, for example, afford illustrations of every Greek construction but any one book furnishes more than most students master. The case is not the same as in Latin, where a much. wider an
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