Lesson_003_Attic_Greek_Memorization

Question 1

παιδεύομεν

Answer 1

1st person Pl. Pres. Act. Ind. Ω-verb (“we teach/are teaching”)

Question 2

παιδεύετε

Answer 2

2nd person Pl. Pres. Act. Ind. Ω-verbs (“you [pl.] teach/are teaching”) or 2nd person Pl. Pres. Act. Imperat. Ω-verbs (“teach!”)

Question 3

καί

Answer 3

(conjunction) and; (adverb) also, even

Question 4

σπεύδω, σπεύσω, ἔσπευσα, —, —, —

Answer 4

(+Inf.) hasten (to), strive (to), be ager (to)

Question 5

παιδεύεις

Answer 5

2nd person Sg. Pres. Act. Ind. Ω-verb (“you [sg.] teach/are teaching”)

Question 6

γράφω, γράψω, ἒγραψα, γέγραφα, γέγραμμαι, ἐγράφην

Answer 6

write, draw [cf. autograph]; (mid.) indict

Question 7

παιδευέτω

Answer 7

3rd person Sg. Pres. Act. Imperat. Ω-verb (“let him/her teach”)

Question 8

κλέπτω, κλέψω, ἔκλεψα, κέκλοφα, κέκλεμμαι, έκλάπην (verbal adj. Κλεπτέος)

Answer 8

steal [cf. kleptomania]

Question 9

φυλάττω, φυλάξω, ἐφύλαξα, πεφύλαχα, πεφύλαγμαι, έφυλάχθην

Answer 9

stand guard, guard, protect, preserve [cf. prophylactic]

Question 10

παιδευε

Answer 10

2nd person Sg. Pres. Act. Imperat. Ω-verb (“teach”)

Question 11

παιδεύω, παιδεύσω, ἐπαίδευσα, πεπαίδευκα, πεπαίδευμαι, ἐπαιδεύθην

Answer 11

teach, educate [cf. propaedeutic]

Question 12

καὶ . . . καί

Answer 12

(correlative conjunctions) both…and [As a conjunction, και (“and”) connects parallel words (e.g., two finite verbs, two Inf.s, two Noun). If the sentence seems to have a superfluous καί in it, or a correlative conjunction paired with another καί. In a vocabulary list it is conventional to show the first correlative with its acute accent changed to grave, since another word would most likely follow it with no intervening punctuation.

Question 13

παιδεύειν

Answer 13

Pres. Act. Inf. (“to teach”)

Question 14

οὐ, (οὐκ, οὐχ)

Answer 14

(negative adverb used with Ind. mood) not [οὐ is a proclitic, a type of word that “leans ahead” to the word following it and has no accent of its own; there are ten such words in Greek. Οὐ is unique in that it does receive an accent (acute) if it comes at the end of a clause (οὒ). Before a word with smooth breathing, οὐ becomes οὐχ; before a word with rough breathing, οὐ becomes οὐχ. oὐκ and οὐχ are exceptions to the rule that a Greek word can end only in a vowel, ν, ρ, ς, ξ, ψ.

Question 15

παιδεύουσι(ν)

Answer 15

3rd person Pl. Pres. Act. Ind. Ω-verb (“they teach/are teaching”)

Question 16

παιδεύει

Answer 16

3rd person Sg. Pres. Act. Ind. Ω-verb (“he/she/it teaches/is teaching”)

Question 17

παιδεύω

Answer 17

1st person Sg. Pres. Act. Ind. Ω-verb (“I teach/am teaching”)

Question 18

παιδευόντων

Answer 18

3rd person Pl. Pres. Act. Imperat. Ω-verb (“let them teach!”)

Question 19

θύω, θύσω, ἒθυσα, τέθυκα, τέθυμαι, ἐτύθην

Answer 19

offer sacrifice, sacrifice, slay

Question 20

μη

Answer 20

(negative adverb used with Imperat. mood) not

Question 21

ἐθέλω, ἐθελήσω, ἠθέλησα, ἠθέληκα, —, —

Answer 21

(+infin.) be willing (to), wish (to)