Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District o by strict of THE following Exercises were prepared simply as an accompaniment to the First Book of the Anabasis. They consist of easy sentences, similar to those in the Anabasis, involving the same words and construc∙ions, and are designed by frequent repetition to make the learner familiar with the language of Xenophon. Accordingly the chapters and sections in both are made to correspond. Thus, § 1st, 2d, etc., of chapter 1st in the Exercises, require a constant reference to 3 1st, 2d, etc., in chapter 1st of the Anabasis. So with the remaining sections. In writing these Exercises, it is impossible to study the expressions of Xenophon too carefully, or to imitate them too closely; and the fact that the learner has continually before him a model so faultless, so purely Attic, is conceived to be no small advantage. It will be observed, that each section contains a vocabulary and two paragraphs of English sentences. The first paragraph is intended for oral recitation, familiar, so as to be recited promptly and with li effort. The second paragraph consists of longer a more varied sentences, which are to be written, a which may also, in reviews especially, be express viva voce. As the chief thing in learning any la guage is to become familiar with its words and idion the question may fairly be raised, whether it would n be better for the beginner in Greek, to occupy som what less of his time in committing to memory a struse rules, which he comprehends but imperfectly, an a grammatical nomenclature, which surely will giv him a very imperfect idea of the harmony of the Gre cian tongue; and instead of this, to occupy a greate proportion of his time in storing the mind with thos words and phrases, which in endless combinations ar an essential part of the language which he is aiming to acquire. Would not this process be more analogous to that which nature points out to us? It is supposed that the majority of those who use these Exercises, will also have in their possession Dr. Owen's edition of the Anabasis, which contains numerous grammatical references and full explanatory notes. For this reason, many annotations have been omitted in the margin of this work which might other wise have found a place. The Greek text which has been selected is that of Krüger. This is added to the Exercises, so that the book may be used even by those who are not reading nd with little f longer and written, and De expressed ng any lanand idioms, t would not cupy someemory abfectly, and will give the Grea greater th those ions are aiming logous the Anabasis, and who may chance not to have a copy. Should any discrepancies between this text and the words employed in the vocabularies be discovered, they may be explained by the fact that the Editor himself made use of the text of Dr. Owen's edition in the preparation of the work. The explanatory notes are desultory and various. The plan of the work forbade any attempt to develop a regular and methodical syntax, provided there were need of such a treatise. But the excellent grammars of Kühner, Sophocles and Crosby rendered such an attempt unnecessary. For the convenience of the learner, an EnglishGreek vocabulary, a catalogue of the irregular verbs, and an index to the principal grammatical notes have been appended to the Exercises. Brown University, Sept. 1849. ho use on Dr. s nu atory been her hat the ng |