Crosby Alpheus. A Grammar of the Greek Language, First Part: A Practical Grammar of the Attic and Common Dialects

Boston: Munroe and Company, 1844. — 511 p.THE following pages are the result of an attempt to supply what was believed to be a desideratum in the list of Greek text-books ; viz. a grammar which should be portable and simple enough to be put into the hands of the beginner, and which should yet be sufficiently scientific and complete to accompany him through his whole course. The volume from which the elements of a language are first learned becomes to the student a species of mnemonic tables, and cannot be changed in the course of his study without a material derangement of those associations upon which memory essentially depends. The familiar remark, " It must be remembered that, if the grammar be the first book put into the learner's hands, it should also be the last to leave them," though applying most happily to grammatical study in general, was made by its accomplished author with particular reference to the manual used by the student.