Excerpt from Greek for Beginners And not even the most enthusiastic admirer of Greek as a language will go so far as not to recognize the object of learning Greek in a knowledge of Ho mer, Sophocles, and Demosthenes, no less than in understanding the form of the aorist or use of the Cptative. But the only way by which the intellectual treasures to be found in the Greek language can be come so perfectly familiar as to have a real influence in education, is an accurate knowledge of the lan guage; and the study of the language in the literal sense, that is, careful practice in the forms and their uses and the gradual unlocking of the treasures of the vocabulary, justly lays claim to a large part of the time devoted to learning Greek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.