ὣς φάτο, τοῖσι δὲ πᾶσιν ὑφʼ ἵμερον ὦρσε γόοιο.
κλαῖε μὲν Ἀργείη Ἑλένη, Διὸς ἐκγεγαυῖα,
κλαῖε δὲ Τηλέμαχός τε καὶ Ἀτρεΐδης Μενέλαος,185
οὐδʼ ἄρα Νέστορος υἱὸς ἀδακρύτω ἔχεν ὄσσε·
μνήσατο γὰρ κατὰ θυμὸν ἀμύμονος Ἀντιλόχοιο,
τόν ῥʼ Ἠοῦς ἔκτεινε φαεινῆς ἀγλαὸς υἱός·
τοῦ ὅ γʼ ἐπιμνησθεὶς ἔπεα πτερόεντʼ ἀγόρευεν·
Ἀτρεΐδη, περὶ μέν σε βροτῶν πεπνυμένον εἶναι190
Νέστωρ φάσχʼ ὁ γέρων, ὅτʼ ἐπιμνησαίμεθα σεῖο
οἷσιν ἐνὶ μεγάροισι, καὶ ἀλλήλους ἐρέοιμεν.
τὴν δʼ ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη ξανθὸς Μενέλαος·
οὕτω νῦν καὶ ἐγὼ νοέω, γύναι, ὡς σὺ ἐίσκεις·
κείνου γὰρ τοιοίδε πόδες τοιαίδε τε χεῖρες
ὀφθαλμῶν τε βολαὶ κεφαλή τʼ ἐφύπερθέ τε χαῖται.150
καὶ νῦν ἦ τοι ἐγὼ μεμνημένος ἀμφʼ Ὀδυσῆι
μυθεόμην, ὅσα κεῖνος ὀιζύσας ἐμόγησεν
ἀμφʼ ἐμοί, αὐτὰρ ὁ πικρὸν ὑπʼ ὀφρύσι δάκρυον εἶβε,
χλαῖναν πορφυρέην ἄντʼ ὀφθαλμοῖιν ἀνασχών.
τὸν δʼ αὖ Νεστορίδης Πεισίστρατος ἀντίον ηὔδα·155
Ἀτρεΐδη Μενέλαε διοτρεφές, ὄρχαμε λαῶν,
Exercises 40.1 The vocative and nominative endings are always identical in which of the following forms:
Exercises 40.2 When Greek speakers are being polite or formal, they use the following marker before the vocative:
ἀλλʼ ἔμπης πάντας μὲν ὀδυρόμενος καὶ ἀχεύων100
πολλάκις ἐν μεγάροισι καθήμενος ἡμετέροισιν
ἄλλοτε μέν τε γόῳ φρένα τέρπομαι, ἄλλοτε δʼ αὖτε
παύομαι· αἰψηρὸς δὲ κόρος κρυεροῖο γόοιο.
τῶν πάντων οὐ τόσσον ὀδύρομαι, ἀχνύμενός περ,
ὡς ἑνός, ὅς τέ μοι ὕπνον ἀπεχθαίρει καὶ ἐδωδὴν.105
μνωομένῳ, ἐπεὶ οὔ τις Ἀχαιῶν τόσσʼ ἐμόγησεν,
ὅσσʼ Ὀδυσεὺς ἐμόγησε καὶ ἤρατο. τῷ δʼ ἄρʼ ἔμελλεν
αὐτῷ κήδεʼ ἔσεσθαι, ἐμοὶ δʼ ἄχος αἰὲν ἄλαστον
τοὺς δʼ ἐπεὶ οὖν δμῳαὶ λοῦσαν καὶ χρῖσαν ἐλαίῳ,
ἀμφὶ δʼ ἄρα χλαίνας οὔλας βάλον ἠδὲ χιτῶνας,50
ἔς ῥα θρόνους ἕζοντο παρʼ Ἀτρεΐδην Μενέλαον.
χέρνιβα δʼ ἀμφίπολος προχόῳ ἐπέχευε φέρουσα
καλῇ χρυσείῃ ὑπὲρ ἀργυρέοιο λέβητος,
νίψασθαι· παρὰ δὲ ξεστὴν ἐτάνυσσε τράπεζαν.
σῖτον δʼ αἰδοίη ταμίη παρέθηκε φέρουσα,55
εἴδατα πόλλʼ ἐπιθεῖσα, χαριζομένη παρεόντων.
δαιτρὸς δὲ κρειῶν πίνακας παρέθηκεν ἀείρας
παντοίων, παρὰ δέ σφι τίθει χρύσεια κύπελλα.
The city of Athens annually sponsored a public funeral for fallen soldiers. This particular one dates to the 390’s BCE. It was typical in this type of speech to recount a fairly standard history of Athens. One section summarizes the war between the Greeks and the Persians, nearly a century earlier. This particular passage describes how the Athenians responded to the famous battle by the Spartans at Thermopylae. When this paragraph begins, the Persian forces have just reached mainland Greece.
The Last Supper:
Exercises 39.1 Fill in the blank.
The pattern for the AORIST PASSIVE PARTICIPLE is:
Exercises 39.2 Declining.
1. Provide the NOMINATIVE and GENITIVE SINGULAR, in all genders, of the AORIST PASSIVE participle of
Exercises 39.3 Identify the participles in the Reading Passages that follow this lesson, and provide the following information for each:
Exercises 38.1 Fill in the blank.
1. FIRST AORIST ACTIVE participles are formed according to the following pattern:
Predictable sound changes yield the following endings for the nominative singular:
Exercises 37.1 Fill in the blank.
1. All PRESENT ACTIVE PARTICIPLES are formed according to the following pattern:
2. For thematic (-ω) verbs, the thematic vowel ______ is added before the ______ marker, producing the following pattern:
