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Excerpt from Exercises in Greek Prose Composition The notes call attention to differences of idiom and peculiarities of syntax, and as a rule there are, with the first appearance of any noteworthy construction, refer ences to the grammar (goodwin's, and Allen's Hadley's) explaining the same. But as the work proceeds the stu dent is left more and more to his own resources. He should be cautioned repeatedly, however, against word for-word translations, and taught to think of the idea, and then find out the natural way of expressing that idea in Greek. 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.