(τριήρεας) τριήρεις

(τείχεα) τείχη

Voc.

βασιλ(έες) εἰς. (τριήρεες) τριήρεις. (τείχεα) τείχη.

REM.-Βασιλεύς lengthens the Genitive ending os into ως: thus, βασιλέως for βασιλέος.

LESSON XVIII.

Third Declension.-Class V.-Exercises.

117. RULE.- Vocative.

The name of the person or thing addressed is put in the Vocative, e. g. :

Κῦρος, ὦ Τισσαφέρνη, ἀλη- | Tissaphernes, Cyrus speaks the truth.

θεύει.

118. VOCABULARY.

Ανήρ, ἀνδρός, ὁ,

Βασιλεύς, έως, δ,

Ἱππεύς, έως, ὅ,

Κάλλος, εος, ους, τό,

Κτῆμα, ἅτος, τό,

Λείπω, εις,

Λόφος, ου, ὁ,

Μέγεθος, εος, ους, τό,
Ξενοφῶν, ῶντος, ὁ,
Ὄρος, εος, ους, τό,
Πέρσης, ου, ό,
Πολέμιος, ου, ὁ,

Τεῖχος, εος, ους, τό,
Τριήρης, εος, ους, ἡ,
Φυλάττω, εις,
Χρῆμα, ατος, τό,

*Ὦ (interjection),

119. EXERCISES.

I.

man, hero.

king.

horseman, pl. cavalry.

beauty.

possession, treasures, means. to leave, abandon.

summit, hill.

size, height.

Xenophon, author of Anabasis.
mountain.

Persian, a Persian.
enemy.

wall, fortification.
galley, trireme.

to guard, defend.

thing, affair, plur. often money, property.

O, used in direct address.

1. Ἔχεις τριήρεις, ὦ Ξενοφῶν. 2. Οἱ πολέμιοι τὴν τριήρη ἔχουσιν. 3. Τὸν τῶν Περσῶν βασιλέα θαυμά ζομεν. 4. Λείπουσι τὸν λόφον οἱ ἱππεῖς. 5. Τοὺς ἱππέας διώκει. 6. Ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως θυγάτηρ τοὺς ἱππέας θαυμάζει. Τ. Οἱ βασιλέως κήρυκες τὰς τῶν Ελλήνων τριήρεις θαυμάζουσιν. 8. Ἔχεις χρήματα. 9. Ἔχεις κτήματα. 10. Ἔχεις ἄνδρας.

II.

1. The youth wonders at the beauty of the house. 2. We admire the mountains. 3. The brother of the

king wonders at the height of the mountain. 4. The king of the Persians wonders at the beauty of the mountain.

LESSON XIX.

- Third Declension.-Class V., continued.

120. Many nouns in is, us, i, and v, change the vowels and into e in all cases, except the Nom., Acc., and Voc. Sing., and then contract eï into eu, ees and eas into es, and ea into n. The endings ews and ewv in the Gen. of nouns in us and vs admit an accent on the antepenult as if short, as πόλεως.

η.

REM.-Observe that ŷxus is declined precisely like róλis, and ἄστυ like σίναπι,

121. In any sentence the predicate may be modified by a noun denoting the place of the action.

122. RULE.-Place.

The name of the place where any thing is or is done is generally put in the Dative with a preposition, e. g.:

Ὁ παῖς ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ | The boy is playing in the παίζει.

123. RULE.-Place.

After verbs of motion,

park.

1) The place to which the motion is directed is
expressed by the Accusative with a prepo-

sition, e. g.:

Εξελαύνει εἰς Κολοσσάς. | He marches to Colossae.

2) The place from which the motion proceeds is
expressed by the Genitive with a preposi-

tion, e. g.:

DεýYOVOW EK TŶS ȧyopas. | They flee from the agora.

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1. Οἱ στρατιῶται τὴν πόλιν φυλάττει. 2. Τὰ τῆς πόλεως κτήματα φυλάττομεν. 3. Φίλιππος πόλεις ἔχει. 4. Τὸ ἄστυ τείχη ἔχει. 5. Οἱ πολέμιοι ἐκ τοῦ ἄστεος φεύγουσιν. 6. Ικετεύω τον βασιλέα. 7. Οἱ ἱερεῖς τοὺς στρατηγοὺς ἱκετεύουσιν. 8. Ἔστι στράτευ‐ μα ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ. 9. Ο βασιλεὺς ἔχει δύναμιν. 10. Τὰς Κύρου πράξεις θαυμάζομεν.

II.

1. The king is in the city. 2. The general is guarding the city. 3. The king sends messengers into the city. 4. The boys are playing in the king's park. 5. The girl loves her parents. 6. The girl admires flowers. 7. We wonder at the beauty of the flowers.

LESSON XX.

Adjectives.—First and Second Declensions.

126. The Adjective is that part of speech which is used to qualify substantives: as ἀγαθός, good; μέyas, great.

127. In Greek, as in Latin, the form of the adjec