English Greek Dictionary Yonge

English Greek Dictionary Yonge

Author: C. D. Yonge

Year: 1870

Please download and store this to preserve it for posterity. This fully OCR'd and searchable English-Greek dictionary is by C. D. Yonge, as edited by Henry Drisler and published in 1870. Included is the useful "An Essay On The Order Of Words In Attic Greek Prose" By Charles Short,LL.D. [The main PDF does not contain the LIST OF PROPER NAMES, pp. 605-661, which is included as a separate non-OCR'd PDF.] In the introduction we are assured that this book, along with the Syntactical Rules of a good Greek Grammar, is all that is necessary to embark upon Greek composition. (The Oxford English Dictionary will demystify arcane and obsolete entries.) While the English-Greek dictionary of Frädersdorff (of comparable size) might contain more wide-ranging vocabulary with more copious examples of idiomatic usage, that of Yonge still deserves a place because of its especial insight into fine distinctions in the language of the Greek poets. Taken together, the Frädersdorff and Yonge dictionaries serve to enlarge understanding of the semantic content of Greek beyond that which can be gleaned from more modern works alone, i.e. the work of Liddell-Scott-Jones and of the Perseus Project. They do so be