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STIONU VERBS. Biliteral . . Of ten showing traces of an ongmal in. inf.; m early times very rare. Trilateral . . Very numerous. (Generally formed by reduplication. In Late Egyptian they were no longer inflected, and were conjugated with the help of irv, WlAK V ...

... 6pioTos, indefinite), the name given in Greek grammar to certain past tenses of verbs (first aorist, second aorist).

... ed. Bekker, 1817; and three smaller treatises, on Pronouns, Conjunctions and Adverbs, ed. Schneider, 1878. Grammatici Graeci, i. in Teubner series; Egger, Apollonius Dyscole (1854). APOLLONIUS, surnamed 6 juaXaxos ("the Effeminate"), a Greek rhetorician of Al ...

... sententious remarks as " Knowledge is Power " are apophthegms. They become " proverbs " by age and acceptance. Plutarch made a famous collection in his Apophthegmata Laconica.

... en printed: ITapo<Mi'ai (Basel, 1538), now exceedingly rare; a collection of proverbs in Greek, of which a fuller edition appeared at Leiden, " Curante Hcinsio," in 1619; " Oratio Panegyrica ad Fredericum III." in Freher's Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, vol. i ...

... structions and perhaps writings, as well as his opinion that a collection of proverbs is not worth while, must have been known outside Aristotle's rhetorical school to the orator Cephisodorus, pupil of Isocrates and master of Demosthenes, for him to be able to ...

... also compiled for the Kisfaludy Society an extensive collection of Hungarian proverbs — Magyar Kozmonddsok konyve (Pest, 1851),— and was for some time editor of the Szepirodalmi Szemle (Review of Polite Literature). In 1848 he was appointed director of the nat ...

... ally be distinguished by observing the sound of the principal vowel. (6) Strong verbs, in the Teutonic languages, and the so-called " irregular verbs " in Latin, are commonly to be considered as primary, other related forms being taken from them. (7) The whole ...

... s, which are shortened forms attached to nouns to express the possessor, and to verbs to express the subject. In the latter case the verb was probably in the participle, so that fdmll-sn, " they hear," is literally hearing are they." The singular suffixes are: ...

... f, which is the ordinary past in demotic. Coptic preserves idjn-f forms of many verbs in its causative (t.g. TAMJJOIJ " cause him to live," from Egyptian dl-t-nk-f), and, in its periphrastic conjugation, the same forms of •ft, ^be," and try, ''do.1' With tjm-f ...

... tudy of the Bible, and took special delight in the books of Ecclesiastes and Proverbs. He treats them as a new discovery, and recommends them to his friends as .having much in common with the teaching of Schopenhauer ! This revived interest in religious questi ...