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Excerpt from A First Greek Reading Book: Containing Short Tales, Anecdotes, Fables, Mythology, and Grecian History This Reading Book is intended to be used with the First Part of the Initia Graeca. Its use should begin as soon as the learner has acquired a fair knowledge of the Regular Verbs. The first requisite having been secured, that of fixing the ordinary forms of Nouns and Verbs securely in the learner's memory, he cannot be too soon introduced to pas sages written by the Greek authors themselves, and con taining a complete sense. His mind must be interested in the subject matter, while he learns the meaning of the forms already committed to memory by seeing them in their proper connections. No learner, of the youngest age at which Greek is usually begun, can be insensible to the new power' he begins to gain by reading the elements which lie at the basis of all polite learning in the words of those writers who have given the pattern of all literature. 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.