Complete Handbook of Greek Verbs

ISBN: 0877740011

Author: N. Marinone

Condition: New

In this collection we present more than 13,000 Greek verb forms obtained through detailed examination of almost 16,000 simple verbs. We used all verbs which have at least one tense, other than the present, documented as used by Greek writers. We considered it of little use to relist in a dictionary the approximately 8,000 verbs which occur in use only in the present tense. For similar reasons compound verbs, with very few exceptions, have not been included. Two criteria guided our selection of the forms: the frequency of their use and their intrinsic difficulty. Poetical forms or forms peculiar to literary dialects are distinguished by asterisks from those that occur in Attic prose or Koiné. Finally - and this constitutes the reason for this new collection - we have tried studiously to register only forms that are definitely documented, thus avoiding a usage that has become rather common in many scholarly grammars and even in some dictionaries: the accumulation of forms constructed by analogy which are not met in actual writings and only serve to swell the volumes and to complicate use. (from the Preface)