Assignment for Friday, 12-09-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

For Friday, December 9, please do the following

(1) Homework (not to turn in):

• Read (or at least skim) in English the chapters "He advises caution..." (pp. 65–6) through "The enemy appear..." (pp. 89–91). As before, use the translation on the Perseus website, if nothing else (and if you do use Perseus, the blue arrows at top left let you advance from chapter 3 to chapter 8, where our Greek reading for today begins).
  
• Read and translate "Cyrus' commands to Clearchus" (p. 91) and "A final review..." (pp. 91–2) in our Anabasis textbook..

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

• p. 91 line 2: φοβούμενος μή: the introduction to a clause of fearing (Gr. 45, #264, pp. 331–2); μή, though it looks like "not," should be translated as "that."

DC

Assignment for Wednesday, 12-07-16

Dear Intermediate Hellenists,

For Wednesday, December 7, please do the following:

(1) Prepare for Vocabulary Quiz 10 by studying the lists in Groton, Lessons 41 and 42.

(2) Homework (not to turn in):

• Read and translate "Clearchus promises to stand by his troops" (pp. 64–5) in our Anabasis textbook. This is a long but important passage, and it will test your knowledge of intermediate Greek on just about every level. Give yourself time to work through it!

Additional help:

• p. 64, line 18: κατεθέμην: from κατατίθημι (see Gr. 47 for the root verb).

• line 24: ἵνα...ὠφελοίην: an example of a purpose clause (Gr. 39, #234); translate ἵνα as "so that..."

• p. 65, line 1: ἀνάγκη: as your commentators say, understand the verb ἐστί here, and then expect an infinitive or two.
  
  Note that in your commentary, the abbreviation sc. means "supply" or "understand" – it's an abbreviation of the Latin scilicet or scire licet, which means (literally), "it is permitted to understand..."

• lines 10–12: oὐκ ἄν...oὐκ ἄν...οὔτε ἄν...οὔτε ἄν: Note the parallel structuring here. In each instance the ἄν goes with an infinitive, each of which is part of an indirect statement triggered by οἶμαι.

• line 13: ὅπῃ ἄν καὶ ὑμεῖς: as your commentators say, understand (sc.) the verb ἴητε here, the present subjunctive of εἶμι.

DC

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