dickey's prose comp: chapter one
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2016 11:08 am
hey all,
i'm posting my work on chapter one as a separate thread. the first has grown to two pages and other users of the text are both more advanced than i and further along in the text. i don't expect anyone to go backwards into already completed work. i'm posting just as much to push myself into doing the work. the intro chapter on accentuation is the only one i'm skipping. otherwise, i intend to follow the suggested procedures: reading the smyth selections, doing the prelimimary exercises, the sentences, and the prose analysis at the end of each chapter.
here are three sentences from chapter one (sorry; no accents):
31. οι μεν την ανδρειαν μανθανουσι τω παιδευεσθαι· οι δε τα αισχρα. (τω should have iota subscript for articular infinitive).
33. τας μεν αγγελοι ηυρον· τας δ' ου.
35. η αγαθη τους ιππους εθελει παιδευειν· οι δε ου εθελουσι μανθανειν.
i like the text. the work is humbling - as others have noted - and i made mistakes everywhere, even in the first chapter's simple sentences. the smyth reading is worth every minute. his examples, except for the simplest, are always real greek, so one gets additional reading exposure there.
on to chapter two. kick out the jams, modifiers!
i'm posting my work on chapter one as a separate thread. the first has grown to two pages and other users of the text are both more advanced than i and further along in the text. i don't expect anyone to go backwards into already completed work. i'm posting just as much to push myself into doing the work. the intro chapter on accentuation is the only one i'm skipping. otherwise, i intend to follow the suggested procedures: reading the smyth selections, doing the prelimimary exercises, the sentences, and the prose analysis at the end of each chapter.
here are three sentences from chapter one (sorry; no accents):
31. οι μεν την ανδρειαν μανθανουσι τω παιδευεσθαι· οι δε τα αισχρα. (τω should have iota subscript for articular infinitive).
33. τας μεν αγγελοι ηυρον· τας δ' ου.
35. η αγαθη τους ιππους εθελει παιδευειν· οι δε ου εθελουσι μανθανειν.
i like the text. the work is humbling - as others have noted - and i made mistakes everywhere, even in the first chapter's simple sentences. the smyth reading is worth every minute. his examples, except for the simplest, are always real greek, so one gets additional reading exposure there.
on to chapter two. kick out the jams, modifiers!