This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... ROMAIC AND MODERN GREEK. PART I.--GENERAL REMARKS. To prevent confusion of ideas, it is necessary to define, at the outset, the sense in which certain designations will be used in the sequel. The term, Ancient Greek, will be applied, not only to the compositions called Classical, but to all Greek ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... ROMAIC AND MODERN GREEK. PART I.--GENERAL REMARKS. To prevent confusion of ideas, it is necessary to define, at the outset, the sense in which certain designations will be used in the sequel. The term, Ancient Greek, will be applied, not only to the compositions called Classical, but to all Greek writings, of whatever date, composed on the model of the classical vocabulary and grammar. The term Romaic will be confined to those popular dialects which, whensoever they arose, are known to have existed under the Byzantine empire, and which, or the like of which, are still spoken by the uneducated. The term Modern Greek will be given to that language in which the laws of the kingdom of Greece are written, and which is acknowledged by the Greeks everywhere, as their present literary dialect. The second of these terms, Romaic, is accepted, merely on the ground of prescription; because, suggesting as it does, a Latin affinity, it is calculated to convey a false impression regarding the dialects to which it is applied. When the seat of empire was removed to Constantinople, the emperors retained their ancient title, translated however into Greek, BaeiXiTs 'Pca/ia m; and just as, in later times, the victorious Franks gave their name to the nation, country, and language of the conquered Gauls, so the glorious name of Romans passed upon the race, provinces, and dialects of the subjugated Greeks. Thus the term Romaic has a political, not at all a literary origin, and properly describes neither the lineage of a people, nor the character of their language, but the imperial dynasty by which they were governed. A According to Apollonius, the Greeks, at a very early period, gratuitously adopted the family names of illustrious Romans. Fully two centuries...
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