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