Proper names

§178 aCHANGE OF ACCENT IN DECLENSION, INFLECTION, AND COMPOSITIONIn composition the accent is usually recessive (159) in the case of substantives and adjectives, regularly in the case of verbs: βάσις ἀνάβασις, θεός ἄθεος, λῦε ἀπόλῡε. a. Proper n…

§261STEMS IN A LIQUID (λ, ρ) OR A NASAL (ν)—ConcludedVocative.—σωτήρ preserver, Ἀπόλλων, Ποσειδῶν (from Ποσειδέων, -ᾱ́ων, -ᾱϝων) have voc. σῶτερ, Ἄπολλον, Πόσειδον with recessive accent. Recessive accent also occurs in compound prope…

§222FIRST DECLENSION (STEMS IN ᾱ)II. MASCULINES SINGULAR ὁ νεᾱνίᾱς ὁ πολῑ́της ὁ κριτής Ἀτρείδης (νεᾱνιᾱ-) (πολῑτᾱ-) (κριτᾱ-) (Ἀτρειδᾱ-) young man citizen judge son of Atreus Nom. νεᾱνίᾱ-ς πολῑ́τη-ς κριτή-ς Ἀτρείδη…

§263STEMS IN SIGMA (ες, ας, οσ)Stems in sigma are contracted where ς falls out between the vowel of the stem and the vowel of the ending (120). Thus, γένος race, gen. γενε(σ)-ος γένους, dat. γενε(σ)-ι γένει, cp.…

§264STEMS IN SIGMA (ες, ας, οσ)ὁ Σωκράτης Socrates ὁ Δημοσθένης Demosthenes (Σωκρατεσ-) (Δημοσθενεσ-) Nom. Σωκράτης Δημοσθένης Gen. (Σωκράτε-οσ) Σωκράτους (Δημοσθένε-οσ) Δημοσθένους Dat. (Σωκράτε-ι) Σωκράτει (Δη…

§282 a, N.IRREGULAR DECLENSIONUsually the irregularity consists in a word having two different stems. a. Both stems have a common nominative singular: σκότος darkness, σκότου σκότῳ, etc. (like ἵππου ἵππῳ) or σκ…

§225FIRST DECLENSION (STEMS IN ᾱ)Genitive singular.—The form in -ου is borrowed from the genitive singular of the second declension. A few words in -ᾱς, generally names of persons not Greeks, have -ᾱ, the Doric ge…

§1000PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF NUMBERPlural.—The plural of proper names, of materials, and of abstracts is used to denote a class. (1) of proper names: Θησέες men like Theseus P. Th. 169b. (2) of materials: here the p…

§§1136–1142THE ARTICLE WITH PROPER NAMESNames of persons and places are individual and therefore omit the article unless previously mentioned (1120 b) or specially marked as well known: Θουκῡδίδης Ἀθηναῖος Thucydides an …

§1160Attributive Position of the ArticleA proper name, defining a preceding noun with the article, may itself have the article: ὁ ἀδελφὸς ὁ Ἀρεθούσιος (his) brother Arethusius D. 53.10. Cp. 1142 c. An appositive to a pro…

§1207THE PRONOUN αὐτόςWith a proper name or a word denoting an individual, the article is omitted: αὐτὸς Μένων Menon himself X. A. 2.1.5, πρὸ αὐτοῦ βασιλέως in front of the Great King himself 1. 7. 11.