234 KANSAS UNIVF.KSri'N- ( H'AR'I'K,KI,\-. 



of their instructiveness. Not new facts so much as new confirma- 

 tion. The five prominent elements in Greek expression (any 

 language for that matter) are the noun, finite verb, participle, 

 infinitive, adjective. I have accordingly prepared three sets of 

 diagrams: ( a) A set showing the curves of the participle and the 

 finite verb for each speech. (h) A set showing the curves of a// 

 the five elements just stated for car/i speech. (c) A set showing 

 the curves of rai-// of the five elements just stated for a// the 

 speeches. I regret that only the first set of diagrams can be repro- 

 duced in this article. 



Without entering into a detailed statement of all the inferences 

 that can be drawn from these diagrams, I will, for the sake of illus- 

 tration, remark briefly only on the first diagram ( Lys. Epit. ). I 

 have chosen this as being the longest speech and the most polynie- 

 tochic. The ratio of participle to tinite verb in the epitaphios of 

 L)'sias is 1.6: i. there being 380 participles and 238 finite verbs. 

 The number of participles to the page is 22-^; the number of finite 

 verbs, i^ji,- It is especially to be remarked with regard to dia- 

 gram (i), that where the wave of the participle in the epitaphios 

 reaches its highest point (33), there, that of the finite verb reaches 

 it-slowest (10). The line of finite verbs is I'ather flat-breasted, 

 while the bosom of the participle seems to be well developed. It 

 will also be seen that the highest point reached by the finite verb 

 is not so high as the average hight of the participle, and that the 

 lowest point reached by the participle is not so low as the average 

 hight of the finite- verb. It is also to be noticed that where the 

 wave of the finite verb reaches its highest points, there the parti- 

 ciple reaches its lowest points. They seem to attract and repel 

 each other alternately until they finally conclude to dwell together 

 in unity. The highest number of participles on an}' full page is 

 33; the lowest 15. The highest number of finite-verbs on any full 

 page is ig; the lowest 10. 



We see from this that the epitaphios -'swells with participles in 

 the true epideictic style." A good example of the heaping-up of 

 participles may be seen in sec. 27, another in sec. 31. In fact 

 there are many places in the epitaphios, where to quote Professor 

 Gildersleeve, "there are hardly enough finite verbs to hold the 

 sentences down; where the finite verb has to be reached through a 

 crowd of circumstances: the logical relations are not clearly ex- 

 pressed, and the play of color in which temporal causal conditional 

 adversative rays mix and cross is maddening". (See Amer. Jour. 

 Phil. vol. 9.) 



