WHITE'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL TEXTS

DIALOGUES FROM LUCIAN

WITH A VOCABULARY

BY

JOHN T. WHITE, D.D. Oxon.

THIRD THOUSAND

LONDON

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1884

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PREFACE.

FOR Some long time past it has been widely felt that a reduction in the cost of Classical Works used in schools generally, and more especially in those intended for boys of the middle classes, is at once desirable and not difficult of accomplishment. For the most part only portions of authors are read in the earlier stages of education, and a pupil is taken from one work to another in each successive half-year or term; So that a book needlessly large and proportionably expensive is laid aside after a short and but partial use.

In order, therefore, to meet what is certainly a want, Portions of the Classical Writers usually read in Schools are now being issued under the title of GRAMMAR SCHOOL TEXTS; while, at the request of various Masters, it has been determined to add to the series some portions of the Greek Testament.

Each TEXT is provided with a VOCABULARY of the words occurring in it. In every instance-with the exception of Eutropius and Æsop-the origin of a word, when known, is stated at the commencement of the article treating of it, if connected with

another Latin, or Greek, word; at the end of it, if derived from any other source. Further still, the primary or etymological meaning is always given, within inverted commas, in Roman type, and so much also of each word's history as is needful to bring down its chain of meanings to the especial force, or forces, attaching to it in the particular "Text." In the Vocabularies, however, to Eutropius and Æsop-which are essentially books for beginners-the origin is given of those words alone which are formed from other Latin or Greek words, respectively.

Moreover, as an acquaintance with the principles of GRAMMAR, as well as with ETYMOLOGY, is necessary to the understanding of a language, such points of construction as seem to require elucidation are concisely explained under the proper articles, or a reference is simply made to that rule in the Public Schools Latin Primer, or in Parry's Elementary Greek Grammar, which meets the particular difficulty. It occasionally happens, however, that more information is needed than can be gathered from the above-named works. When such is the case, whatever is requisite is supplied, in substance, from Jelf's Greek Grammar, Winer's Grammar of New Testament Greek, or the Latin Grammars of Zumpt and Madvig.

LONDON: August, 1876.

DIALOGUES FROM LUCIAN.

1. Ἑρμῆς καὶ Χάρων.

The

Hermes having made several purchases for Charon requests him to come to an understanding about the amount of his debt, in order to obviate any dispute at a future time. Charon assents. various articles specified, and their cost stated. The account being found correct, Charon professes his present inability to settle it, and tells Hermes that he must wait for payment till some war or pestilence arises, which by sending numerous Shades to the Lower World will enable him to raise the requisite sum. Hermes after a little demur agrees to wait for his money. Compares the Shades who in former days descended to the Lower World covered with blood and wounds with those who at the then present time come to their end either through being poisoned by members of their family, or through disease engendered by luxury, or in consequence of some plot against them for money. Charon exclaims that money is very desirable. Hermes rejoins that this is a reason why he should sharply demand what is due to himself.

ΕΡΜ. Λογισώμεθα, ὦ πορθμεῦ, εἰ δοκεῖ, ὁπόσα μοι ὀφείλεις ἤδη, ὅπως μὴ αὖθις ἐρίζωμέν τι περὶ αὐτῶν.

ΧΑΡ. Λογισώμεθα, ὦ Ἑρμῆ· ἄμεινον γὰρ ὡρίσθαι καὶ ἀπραγμονέστερον.

Lucian.

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