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1. Ο νεανίας καλὰ ἔργα διώκει. 2. Τὰ καλὰ διώκομεν. 3. Αἱ καλαὶ κόραι τὰς ἐπιστολὰς ἔχουσιν. Οἱ πολῖταί εἰσι σοφοί. 5. Τὸ κύπελλόν ἐστι χρυσοῦν. 6. Εὐδαιμονίζομεν τοὺς ἀγαθούς. 7. Ο κλέπτης κρύ πτει τὰ χρυσὰ κύπελλα ἐν τῷ κήπῳ. 8. Οἱ ἀγαθοὶ τὰ καλὰ διώκουσιν. 9. Ο Κῦρος ἀθροίζει τὸ Ἑλληνι κὸν στράτευμα. 10. Ὁ κακὸς τὰ αἰσχρὰ διώκει. 11. Ο Ο παῖς τὴν καλὴν βίβλον ἔχει.

II.

1. The boys are playing in the beautiful park. 2. The good boy is, writing a beautiful letter. 3. The good king has a golden breastplate. 4. The breastplate of the good king is of gold (golden). 5. The boy has a golden cup. 6. We admire the boy's golden cup.

LESSON XXIII.

Adjectives.-First and Third Declensions.

138. Many adjectives of three terminations are declined in the masculine and neuter like nouns of the third declension, and in the feminine like those of the first declension.

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REM.-On the accentuation of πᾶς, the pupil will observe that the feminine follows the analogy of nouns of the first declension,

and that the masculine and neuter are accented in the singular like monosyllabic substantives of the third declension (115), while in the dual and plural they conform to the general rule for accentuation as given in article 95.

139. Some adjectives belong wholly to the third declension.

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142. EXERCISES.

I.

1. Ἡ ἀρετὴ σώζει πάντα. 2. Ο παῖς μέλαν ἱμά τιον ἔχει. 3. Οἰκτείρω τὴν τάλαιναν μητέρα. 4. Οίνος γλυκύς ἐστιν. 5. Ο νεανίας ἔχει ταχὺν ἵππον. 6. Τὴν μεγάλην πόλιν θαυμάζομεν. Τ. Οἱ ἀγαθοὶ εὐδαίμονές εἰσιν. 8. Οἱ πολλοὶ τὴν μεγάλην πόλιν θαυμάζουσιν. 9. Η νεφέλη μέλαινά ἐστιν. 10. Τὴν μέλαιναν νεφέλην θαυμάζομεν. 11. Οἱ ̓Αθηναῖοι (134) μεγάλην δύ ναμιν ἔχουσιν.

II.

1. The king is prudent. 2. We admire the prudent judge. 3. All admire the prudent. 4. We pity the unhappy father. 5. The general has swift triremes. 6. All the citizens admire the virtue of the general. 7. He is saving the whole city.

LESSON XXV.

Comparison of Adjectives.

143. In Greek, adjectives are generally compared with the following endings:

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144. Adjectives in os drop s and append these endings; though, if the penult of the positive be short, o must be lengthened to w to prevent the con currence of short syllables, e. g. :

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