3 5 71. On accentuation, observe that the forms ó, n, oi, ai, take no accent, the Gen. and Dat. the circumflex, and the other forms the acute. 72. RULE.-Article. The Article agrees with its noun in gender, number, and case, e. g.: Ἡ ἐπιστολή. Αἱ ἐπιστολαί. 73. RULE.-Modifying Nouns. The letter. The letters. A noun modifying the meaning of another noun is put 1) In the same case as that noun, when it de- Evpinions & TоINTýs. | Euripides the poet. 'Н тоû кριтоû арerý. | The virtue of the judge. 74. When the governing noun has an article, the genitive is commonly placed between the article and that noun, as in the above example. As the Greek language, however, allows great freedom in the arrangement of words, this order is by no means uniformly followed. Thus, the above example may read, 1. Ἡ τοῦ κριτοῦ ἀρετή. 2. Ἡ ἀρετὴ ἡ τοῦ κριτοῦ. 4. Τοῦ κριτοῦ ἡ ἀρετή. 75. RULE.-Direct Object. Any transitive verb may take an Accusative as the direct object of its action, e. g.: Γράφω ἐπιστολήν. I am writing a letter. 1. Θαυμάζω τὴν ἐπιστολήν. 2. Ο νεανίας θαυμά ζει τὰς ἐπιστολάς. 3. Θαυμάζομεν τὰς τοῦ ποιητοῦ ἐπιστολάς. 4. Ὁ ποιητὴς τὴν οἰκίαν θαυμάζει. 5. Οἱ ποιηταὶ τὰς οἰκίας θαυμάζουσιν. 6. Οἱ ποιηταὶ τὴν οἰκίαν τοῦ κριτοῦ θαυμάζουσιν. 7. Οἱ στρατιῶται χαλεπαίνουσιν. 8. Λύουσι τὴν γέφυραν. 9. Οἱ στρατιῶται λύουσι τὰς σπονδάς. * After each noun in the Vocabularies will be given, first, the genitive ending, which will enable the pupil readily to decline the noun throughout according to previous paradigms; and, secondly, the appropriate form of the article to mark the gender: thus, ἣs after ἐπιστολή and as after yépupa show that these nouns are declined respectively like νίκη and πεῖρα; while ἡ, the feminine form of the article appended to each, shows that they are feminine. II. 1. The judge is reading the letter. 2. I am reading a letter. 3. They are reading the letter of the judge. 4. We are reading the letters of the judge. 5. We admire the house of the poet. 6. I admire the houses of the poets. 78. The Second Declension presents the following NOMINATIVE ENDINGS:-os and ws, masc.; ov and wv, neut. REM.-Some nouns in os are feminine by exception. 79. They are declined by adding to the root the following 80. Accentuation.-The syllable which has the accent in the nominative, retains it throughout all the cases, subject to the same exceptions and changes as in the First Declension (68), except in the Gen. Plur., which has the accent on the ultimate only when the Nom. Sing. is accented on that syllable. LESSON IX. Second Declension, continued. 81. A few nouns of the second declension, having e or o before the ending, suffer contraction through all the cases, and are declined according to the following REM. It will be observed that the above paradigms in their uncontracted form do not differ at all in their declension from λόγος and σύκον (79); it is only in the fact of their contraction that they present any peculiarity. 82. Accentuation.The contracted ultimate is circumflexed, if the penult had the accent before contraction; except in the Dual Nom. Acc. and Voc., where it takes the acute, as πλώ instead of πλῶ. 83. Attic Second Declension. The nouns in ws and wv form the so called Attic Second Declension, and are declined according to the following |