3. The Rules of Syntax, before given, are
illustrated by more proper examples: and many
New Rules, before omitted, are here noticed.

With all these improvements however,

Brevity has been ftudiously confulted, in order

that this First Part of the Introduction might

be frequently read over: for in REPETITION

and EXPLANATION confifts the whole Art of

teaching.

But the Rules, which have been here laid
down, and exemplified each by some short and
few inftances, will be farther illuftrated by the
Sentences given in the Second Part of this In-
troduction. And it is intended as an useful
exercise of memory, attention, and judgment,
that those who are going through the Second
Part, fhould in every Sentence of it refer to
this the First; fhould point out the proper rule
which may account for every mode of con-
ftruction that may occur; and should thus ex-
amine how far one part may confirm the other.

Of the Two Parts of this Introduction, it

should be obferved, that the First is defigned

to teach Grammar, and therefore has recourse

to a variety of Authors, indifcriminately quot-

ing

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ing either Poetical, or Profaic Writers; and that, as it conceives, without impropriety; for there is no one mode of figurative expreffion used by the Greek Poets, which is not alfo frequently adopted by their Writers in Profe. But the Second proposes to itself to teach Style alfo, and therefore felects Sentences from one Author only, and that the most excellent of all others for beautiful Simplicity, viz. the Incomparable XENOPHON.

Laftly, let it be premised of the whole Work, that being calculated for the ordinary ufe of those who have made no very great proficiency in Greek Learning, it is fatisfied with having given only fuch rules as are neceffary for just and elegant compofition. The more minute niceties of the Greek Language are to be found in the Port Royal Grammar; and the Edition of DAWES's Mifcellanea Critica, publifhed by the learned and admirable THOMAS BURGESS*: the filling up of its Ellipses (which alone refolves all the feeming difficulties of Greek Synthesis) is fully taught in the Ellipfes Græcæ by LAMBERTUS Bost: the doctrine of

* Now Bishop of St. David's.

In the Edition by SCHWEBELIUS; or, in that printed at HALLE, improved with the Notes of MICHAELIS.

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its

its Particles is explained in the Doctrina Particularum, by HOOGEVEEN: the flexion of Verbs in a more fimplified manner is exhibited in the Analogia Græca by LENNEP: the peculiar elegancies of the Greek Idiom are set forth in VIGER'S Book De præcipuis Græcæ Dictionis Idiotifmis, edited and improved by HOOGEVEEN: the philofophical diftinctions of Grammar in general, and of Greek in particular, are to be learned from Volume the Second on the Origin and Progrefs of Language, by LORD MONBODDO; who, notwithstanding some ftrange hypothefes objectionable in both his Works, has nevertheless with accurate fidelity exhibited the Metaphyfics of ARISTOTLE; and with acknowledged erudition, penetration, and taste, developed the structure and harmony, the force and beauty of Ancient Compofition.

For the information of those who would make farther enquiries into the Grammatical Art, is extracted and fubjoined from the First Book of VOSSIUS De Arte Grammatica, c. 4.. a brief account of thofe Writers, to whom Grammarians of later times are much indebted for their knowledge and obfervations.

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Eorum, quorum nobile quicquam fuperfit,

princeps locus debetur APOLLONIO Alexandrino, cognomento Aurxo five difficili: qui tempore M. ANTONINI claruit. Hujus quatuor extant Libri Περι Συνταξεως. Hoc volumen ipfe neceffarium effe ait ad poetas intelligendos, atque id a fe fcriptum μέλα πάσης ακριβειας. Etiam filius ejus HERODIANUS plurima reliquit, hodieque fuperfunt Παρεκβολαι μεγαλου ρήματος, και εκ των αυτού, Παραγωγαι δυσκλιτων ῥημάτων : item quædam Пeg Aguav. Præterea ad nos perΠερι Αριθμων. venit libellus TRYPHONIS Alexandrini De Dialectis, item de Vocum Paffionibus. Item exftat ELII DIONYSII opufculum Περί Ακλιτων ρημα των et Περι εγκλινομενων λεξεων : necnon JOANNIS GRAMMATICI Περι εγκλινομενων, uti et De Dialectis. Etiam CHOROBOSCI fupereft libellus Περι εγκλινομένων, et Περι του Εσιν, et de femininis in exeuntibus, deque deque του εφελκυσικου Ν, five, quibus addatur, vel non addatur. Multi etiam, renafcentibus literis, præclarè de Arte hac meriti funt. Ex iis, EMANUEL CHRYSOLORAS idoneus eft, unde difcantur principia linguæ Græcæ: nifi quòd verborum formationes omittit. Plenior DEMETRIUS CHALCONDYLAS. Addendus EMANUEL MOSCHOPULUS Περι Συνταξεως. Fufiùs de arte fcripfit CONSTANTINUS LASCARIS. Omnium vero doctiffimè hanc artem Libris Quatuor tractavit THEODORUS GAZA Theffalonicenfis.

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nicenfis. Cujus operam ab ingenio et doctrina fic commendat FRANCISCUS ROBORTELLUS, ut nulli veterum poftponendam dicat. Nec ei fe fimile quicquam legiffe, eo in genere, dictitabat BUDÆUS. Is, primo quidem libro, agit de literis, et octo orationis partibus, præpofitione exceptâ, de qua libro IV. Secundo, accuratiùs illa de octo partibus expendit, ac, præter cætera, temporum formationem exponit. Tertio confiderat accentus, quantitatem, orthographiam, et varios barbarifmi modos. Quartus eft de ftructura orationis, et variis dicendi formis."

By the most judicious Writers on Language, APOLLONIUS and GAZA are cited as Authors of fuperior merit; they may therefore be recommended to the particular notice of the Greek Student.

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