Excerpt from A Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition
Revised by F. D. Morxce, m.a. Assistant Master at Rugby School and Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.
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Thomas Arnold's Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition, first published in 1838, was designed as a school textbook and contains the basic grammatical and syntactical tools that a student requires in order to construct sentences. It also includes an index of common vocabulary and exercises on syntax.
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