"Grecian mythology arose in the personification of natural phenomena and was totally free from those debasing and ludicrous ideas with which, through Roman and later misunderstanding or perversion, it has been associated."

The Phoenix is a mythical bird, supposed to live 500 years and then rise again from its own ashes, hence the emblem of immortality. The halcyon is also fabulous bird, which the poets say causes the sea to become calm whenever it alights on the waves.

Zephyr is a poetical name for the west wind. The Ancient Greeks considered the winds as gods and gave them personal names. Eurus the name of the east wind, Boreas of the north wind, and Auster of the south wind.

The pyramids are amongst the oldest edifices in the world; but it is not known precisely by whom, for what, or when they were constructed.

Sacrifice is distinct from oblation. The first requires the destruction of the thing offered, the latter is but a simple offering. A holocaust is a burnt offering. Hecatomb the sacrifice of 100 oxen.

"Him the Almighty Power

Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky
With hideous ruin and combustion, down

To bottomless perdition; there to dwell

In adamantine chains."

1 The king-fisher.

"Oh, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in the Heaven aloud."

The septuagint takes its name from the now exploded story of the seventy-two learned Jews employed to translate the Old Testament into Greek.

The books, purporting to be inspired, but whose authenticity is doubted, are called the Apocrypha.

The vulgate is a translation of the septuagiut into the vulgar or vernacular language.

A bible translated into several languages is called a polyglot bible.

Hypocrites! ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte."

Oh! ye immortal gods! what is theogony?

Oh! thou too mortal man! what is philanthropy?
Oh! world which was and is! what is cosmogony?
Some people have accused me of misanthropy;
And yet I know no more than the mahogany
That forms this desk, of what they mean.

"The affable archangel, had forewarned
Adam by dire example, to beware
Apostasy, by what befel in heaven
To those apostles."

1 From Mahogon the native South American name.

BYRON.

disunite, digress, separate
deduct, decline

TABLE OF LATIN AND GREEK PREFIXES.

Latin prefixes are generally prefixed to Latin roots, and Greek prefixes to Greek roots.

avert, abjure

Inter

intersperse

De

Cata (Kara)

cataract, catapult

down

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A LIST OF LATIN AND GREEK ROOTS, WITH EXAMPLES OF ENGLISH DERIVATIVES.

It is intended that the pupils should refer all roots given in the lessons to this list for explanation, and for a view of the words which involve the same root in different forms. The Greek characters will easily distinguish the Greek roots.

Aceo-to be sour; acer, acris, acre-sour; acerbus--sour, bitter

acesent, acetic, acetity

acetous, acid, acidity

Acuo, acutum-I sharpen

acrid, acrimony acerbity, acerbate

eager

adamant, adamantine, diamond

Equus-even, just

equation, equator, equiangular, equilibrium, equinox, equity, equivocal

adequate, equal, equailty, equity, equivalent

Aër (anp) the air

air, aerial, aeriform, aerolite, aernant, aërate

Evum-an age

coeval, primeval

Ager, agri-a field

agrarian, agriculture, pilgrim, peregrination

Aggello (ayyéλw)—to bear a message

angel, evangelist, evangelical, evangelise

Ago, actum-to do (often igo in comp.) Agito-to set in motion agent, agile, act, active, actor, action, actuate agitate, cogitate exigent, cogent, navigate, prodigious, prodigal

Ago (ay)-to drive or lead Agogos (ȧywyós)—a leader demagogue, synagogue, paragoge, strategy, epact

Agon (ȧywv)—a striving, wrestling

agony, antagonist, agonism

Agora (ȧyopȧ)—place of assembly, an oration allegory, category, categorical, panegyric

Akouo (áková)—to hear

acoustics, diacoustics, otacoustic

Alins-another

aliquot, alibi, alias

Allos (aλos)—another

Alienus-foreign

alien, alienate

parallel, allegory, allopathy

Alo-to nourish

aliment, alimony, coalesce, coalition