Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, chapter 996

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DEFINITIONS SYNTAX OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE KINDS OF SIMPLE SENTENCES EXPANSION OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE AGREEMENT: THE CONCORDS THE SUBJECT OMISSION OF THE SUBJECT CASE OF THE SUBJECT: THE NOMINATIVE THE PREDICATE CONCORD OF SUBJECT AND PREDICATE PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF NUMBER PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF GENDER PECULIARITIES IN THE USE OF PERSON ADJECTIVES ADVERBS THE ARTICLE — ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT PRONOUNS THE CASES PREPOSITIONS THE VERB: VOICES VERBAL NOUNS THE PARTICIPLE VERBAL ADJECTIVES IN -τέος SUMMARY OF THE FORMS OF SIMPLE SENTENCES COMPOUND AND COMPLEX SENTENCES: COÖRDINATION AND SUBORDINATION SYNTAX OF THE COMPOUND SENTENCE SYNTAX OF THE COMPLEX SENTENCE CLASSES OF SUBORDINATE CLAUSES ADVERBIAL COMPLEX SENTENCES ( 2193 - 2487 ） ADJECTIVE CLAUSES ( RELATIVE CLAUSES: 2488- 2573 ） DEPENDENT SUBSTANTIVE CLAUSES ( 2574 - 2635 ） INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES (QUESTIONS) INDIRECT (DEPENDENT) QUESTIONS EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES NEGATIVE SENTENCES PARTICLES SOME GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL FIGURES

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[*] 996. Collective Singular.—A noun in the singular may denote a number of persons or things: ““ὁ Μῆδος” the Medes” T. 1.69, τὸ Ἑλληνικόν the Greeks 1. 1, τὸ βαρβαρικόν the barbarians 7. 29, ἡ πλίνθος the bricks 3. 20, ““ἵππον ἔχω εἰς χι_λία_ν” I have about a thousand horse” X. C. 4.6.2, ““μυ_ρία_ ἀσπίς” ten thousand heavy armed” X. A. 1.7.10. On the plural verb with collectives, see 950. Cp. 1024, 1044.

a. So with the neuter participle: τὸ μαχόμενον almost = ““οἱ μαχόμενοι” the combatants” T. 4.96.

b. The name of a nation with the article may denote one person as the representative (King, etc.) of a class: ὁ Μακεδών the Macedonian (Philip) D. 7.6.

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