Greek 701/Assignment 2
Indirect Statement

Before doing this assignment read the assigned passage in Lysias. Make a list of every verb which introduces indirect statement and check (in LSJ or Smyth) which construction(s) each verb takes.

The vocabulary of the following sentences is taken largely from the reading assignments in Lysias.

For #1 use the finite construction with hoti/hos; for #2 the infinitive; for #3 the participle. For #4 and #5 use whatever is appropriate. Please double-space!

1a. I will demonstrate, gentlemen of the jury, that this man arrested Polemarchos and has committed crimes worthy of many deaths.

1b. We learned that Eratosthenes went to our house and arrested my brother in order to kill him.

2a. I deny that Eratosthenes spoke against the Thirty. Thus you will easily be able to vote on his case.

2b. Will Eratosthenes agree that he neither spoke against the Thirty nor saved my brother?

3. You know that all these things have happened. Some you heard about; others you saw yourselves. You must, therefore, inflict the severest punishment on all these men.

4. It is manifest that Eratosthenes put many men to death not at the orders of the Thirty but because he wanted to kill his enemies.

5a. Consider, gentlemen, that neither Polemarchos nor Kephalos has ever done any wrong either to friends or to enemies.

5b. None of the jurors believed that either Polemarchos or Kephalos would ever do any wrong either to friends or to enemies.


Synopsis: timao, third person plural; participle: masc. dat. pl.


Here is some useful vocabulary, with links to the LSJ entries via Perseus. Sorry about the absence of Greek font, but Perseus, of course, will show the entries in Greek, once you set up the appropriate font on your computer. (For information about displaying Greek on your computer, click here.)

Feel free to use other ways of expressing the sentences, as long as you check them carefully.

Note that Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary is available online.

apodeiknumi
apollumi
apokteino
antilego
diapsephizomai and related words
dikhn didomi / lambano
enthumeomai
oida
hoios t' eimi
homologeo
punthanomai
sullambano
prostatto
phainomai + ptc.
(ou) phemi

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