Assignment for Sunday, 12-04-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

For Sunday evening , December 4, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 42, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way.

• Indirect discourse with participle (#247, pp. 303–6);
• Crasis (#248, pp. 306–7); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 42 (#249, pp. 307–8).

(2) Homework (due by 11:00 p.m.):

• Greek-to-English Sentences 8–10 ONLY (#246, p. 300); and
• Greek-to-English Sentences 1, 2, 3, 7,  9, and 10 ONLY (#250, pp. 308–9).

OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT:

• English-to-Greek Sentences 2 and 4 (#246, p. 300); and
• English-to-Greek Sentences 2 and 4 (#250, p. 309).

DC

Assignment for Friday, 12-02-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

NOTE: This assignment has reading, homework to turn in, and homework not to turn in. Please read this post carefully!

For Friday, December 2, please do the following

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 41, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way.

• The verb φημί (#243, pp. 295–6);
• Indirect discourse with infinitive (#244, pp. 297–9); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 41 (#245, p. 299).

(2) Homework (to turn in):

• Greek-to-English Sentences 1–7 ONLY (#246, p. 300).

(3) Homework (not to turn in):

• Read (or at least skim) in English the chapters "The march begins" (p. 56) through "Cyrus and the Cilician king come to terms" (p. 63). Use the translation on the Perseus website, if nothing else (use the "load Greek" feature at right to help orient yourself in the translation).
  
• Read and translate "Mutiny at Tarsus" (p. 64) in our Anabasis textbook. This section, though brief, will test your comprehension of Gr. 41; in addition, you will want to have the forms of the verb εἶμι (Gr. 40) close at hand.

Additional help, keyed to Groton's textbook (all on p. 64):

• line 8: ἐπεὶ ἄρξαιντο: works like the protasis of a past general condition (Gr. 37, #225 C.1, p. 264); see commentary for further remarks.

• line 9–10: μὴ καταπετρωθῆναι: with ἐξέφυγε, describes what it was Clearchus narrowly escaped; translate: "(escaped) from being..."

• line 12: ἑστώς: perfect (second) active participle of ἵστημι (Gr. 46, # 269, p. 340).

DC

Assignment for Wednesday, 11-30-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

For Wednesday, November 30, please do the following:

(1) Prepare for Vocabulary Quiz 9 by studying the list in Groton, Lesson 40.

(2) Homework (not to turn in):

• Read and translate the rest of "The rendezvous at Sardis" (from οἱ δὲ ἡδέως onward, line 15, p. 55) and "Artaxerxes is informed by Tissaphernes" (p. 56) in our Anabasis textbook.

Additional help (all for p. 56 — though Gr. 34 will help with the numerals on p. 55):

• line 1: μείζονα: for the irregular comparison of μέγας, see Gr. 33, #203 (pp. 229–30) and (for the declension, based on βελτίων) #204 (p. 229).

• lines 1–2: μείζονα modifies παρασκευήν; the entire construction from καί to παρασκευήν is an example of indirect discourse with infinitive: Gr 41, #244 (pp. 296–8); translate in this order, and as literally as you can: καὶ ἡγησάμενος τὴν παρασκευήν (εἶναι) μείζονα ἢ ["than"] ὡς [= ὥστε, "so as," + inf.] (εἶναι) ἐπὶ Πισίδας...

• line 3: ὡς βασιλέα = εἰς (τὸν) βασιλέα (and note that Xenophon rarely uses the article with this noun).

• line 3: ᾗ = τῇ ὁδῷ ᾗ, a compressed relative clause; ἐδύνατο τάχιστα is part of the relative clause; τάχιστα is adverbial, a neuter plural accusative adjective in the superlative degree: Gr. 32, #196 (last full paragraph, "The preferred way..." etc., p. 220).

DC

Assignment for Monday, 11-28-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

As noted in class, a Sunday evening assignment is cruel and unusual punishment after a long break.

For Monday evening, November 21, please do the following:

(1) Homework (due by 11:00 p.m.):

• Indicative verb blocks for φράζω: you (sing.), she, we, you (pl.).
• Subjunctive verb blocks, same as above.
• Optative verb blocks, same as above.

Remember that indicative verb blocks require 14 forms, because they exist in all of the tenses and voices. But subjunctive and optative blocks are more selective, and require only five forms per block: present active, present middle/passive, aorist active, aorist middle, and aorist passive.

DC

Assignment for Sunday, 11-20-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

For Sunday evening, November 20, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 40, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way.

• The verb εἶμι (#238, pp. 285–7);
• Indirect discourse with ὅτι or ὡς (#239–40, pp. 287–9); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 40 (#241, p. 290).

(2) Homework (due by 11:00 p.m.):

• Greek-to-English sentences (#242, p. 291).

DC

Assignment for Friday, 11-18-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

For Friday, November 18, please do the following:

(1) Homework (not to turn in):

• Read and translate "His ostensible purpose" (p. 54) and "The rendezvous at Sardis" (pp. 54–5, down to ...κατάγαγοι οἴκαδε, line 15) in our Anabasis textbook.

NOTE: Additional help, keyed to Groton's textbook.

• p. 54, line 23: παραγγέλει...ἥκειν: works like κελεύει would (Gr. 5, #36, p. 28).

• line 23: ὅσον: Note the spelling (that's not a final iota, that's a nu: old plates) and see the editors' commentary.

• p. 55, line 3: προειστήκει: indicative pluperfect active 3rd sing of προ-ἵστημι (Gr. 46); see commentary for the temporal nuances.

• lines 10–1: ὑποσχόμενος...μή...πάυσασθαι: the subject of  μή...πάυσασθαι is Cyrus, whom ὑποσχόμενος modifies: "promising that he (Cyrus) would not stop..."

• line 14: πρὶν...καταγάγοι: "before restoring," "until he restored" (Gr. 43, #253, p. 316).

DC

Assignment for Wednesday, 11-16-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

For Wednesday, November 16, please do the following:

(1) Prepare for Vocabulary Quiz 8 by studying the list in Groton, Lesson 37.

(2) Homework (not to turn in):

• Read and translate "Preparations in the Chersonese" (p. 53) and "Preparations in Thessaly" (p. 54) in our Anabasis textbook.

NOTE: Additional help, keyed to Groton's textbook.

• p. 54, lines 7–8: πρὶν ἄν...συμβουλεύσηται: "before consulting," "until he consulted"; see your editors' notes on this construction, as well as Gr. 43, #253.i (p. 316).

DC

Assigment for Sunday, 11-13-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

For Sunday evening, November 13, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 37, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way.

• Conditional statements and their kinds  (#224–6, pp. 263–5); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 37 (#227, pp. 265–6).

(2) Homework (due by 11:00 p.m.):

• Greek-to-English sentences (#228, p. 267).

DC

Assignment for Friday, 11-11-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

For Friday, November 11, please do the following:

(1) Homework (not to turn in):

• Read and translate from the middle of page 52, line 18, to page 53 (still book 1.1), line 11 (ending in ...ἐτύγχανεν ἔχων), in our Anabasis textbook.

NOTE: Additional help, keyed to Groton's textbook.

• line 20: δεδομέναι: from δίδωμι, a special class of verbs called μι-verbs (Gr. 47); this is the perfect passive participle.

• line 20: ἀφειστήκεσαν: from ἀφ-ίστημι, a special class of verbs called μι-verbs (Gr. 47); this is the indicative pluperfect active.

• line 23: ἀποστῆναι: second aorist active infinitive of ἀφ-ίστημι.

• line 4: δοθῆναι: first aorist passive infinitive of δίδωμι.

• line 10: ὧν = the relative pronoun ἅς, attracted into the case of the antecedent, πόλεμων (Gr. 50, #290, pp. 372–3).

DC

Assignment for Wednesday, 11-09-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

On Wednesday, November 9, we'll continue our reading of Xenophon's Anabasis. In preparation, please do the following:

(1) Prepare for Vocabulary Quiz 7 by studying the lists in Groton, Lessons 35 and 36.

(2) Homework (not to turn in):

• Read and translate most of page 52 (book 1.1) down to lines 17–18 (ending in ...ταῖς πόλεσι) in our Anabasis textbook.

NOTE: Additional help, keyed to Groton's textbook.

• line 2: ὅπως = "that" after βουλεύεται.

• lines 2–3: ἢν δύναται: ἢν = εἰ + ἄν; δύναται you should recognize as subjunctive. See Gr. 37, #225.C.1 (p. 264 for this kind of if-clause (or conditional statement).

• line 6: διατιθηεῖς: from δια-τίθημι, a special class of verbs called μι-verbs (Gr. 47); this, contrary to appearances, is the aorist active participle.

• line 9: εἵησαν: present optative of εἰμί (as shown in #220, p. 258); here, with ὡς ("in order that...") after ἐπεμελεῖτο, it indicates the purpose (Gr. 39) for which Cyrus took heed of the foreigners.

• line 10: ὡς μάλιστα: ὡς plus the superlative adverb μάλιστα = "as much as possible" (Gr. 32, #200, p. 222).

• line 11: ὅπως ὅτι: with the optative λάβοι, like the ὡς in line 9.

• line 16: ὅτι plus a superlative adjective: see previous note and Groton reference.

DC

Assignment for Sunday, 11-06-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

For Sunday evening, November 6, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 36, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way.

• The Optative Mood  (#219–20, pp. 253–8);
• Independent Uses of the Optative (#221, p. 259); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 36 (#222, pp. 259–60).

(2) Homework (due by 11:00 p.m.):

• Greek-to-English sentences (#223, p. 260).

DC

Assignment for Friday, 11-04-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

For Friday morning, November 4, please do the following:

(1) Reading: Groton, Lesson 35, on the following forms and concepts. Note any questions along the way.

• The Subjunctive Mood (#214–15, pp. 233–7);
• Independent Uses of the Subjuinctive (#216, pp. 247–8); and
• Vocabulary for Lesson 35 (#217, pp. 248–9).

(2) Homework (due by 8:00 a.m.):

• Greek-to-English sentences (#218, p. 249).

DC