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than in (Xen. Hell, n, 3, 35) Trpoe/xcvoi aurovs aTroXcV^at. The limit- 

 ations of this use of the infinitive I have never seen satisfactorily 

 stated. 



The construction of Soxeiv, "to seem," cannot be called a problem. 

 I mention it only because of the surprising misstatements in some 

 of the best grammars. "It seems to me that they came" can never 

 be 8o/cet P.OL avrovs iXOtlv, but must be So/covo-i /xot IXOelv. The seeming 

 examples and their true nature are too familiar to mention. If there 

 are any real examples of the accusative with the infinitive after SOKCI, 

 "it seems," they should be collected. 



The negative presents a mass of problems. I have already pub- 

 lished something on the defects of our knowledge here, and have 

 not space to add anything now. I will only say that recent authors 

 of text-books still go on using oS and OVTTOTC for "yet" and "ever" 

 in negative sentences. 



There remain several departments of Greek grammar which I 

 must entirely omit. Indirect discourse, sometimes strangely treated 

 as a special department of syntax, involves all the departments, 

 and any treatment of the subject is defective that fails to provide 

 for every construction of direct discourse, even if such provision is 

 to say that it cannot be expressed in indirect discourse. Such a treat- 

 ment I have never seen, nor anything remotely approximating it. 

 The special problems here are many and cannot even be enumerated. 



Problems of textual criticism I must also omit. Once I had occa- 

 sion to read a lengthy paper on the subject, pointing out what 

 seemed to me radical defects. Further study of the subject has 

 strengthened my views and I am convinced that great improvement 

 of method is still possible. The individual problems are of course 

 well-nigh endless. 



Higher criticism needs only to be mentioned, and Greek scholars 

 see before them a wilderness to be cleared and made ready for culti- 

 vation, and it would be absurd to offer any remarks here. 



[NOTE. The above paper was prepared under the impression that the 

 author had no choice, but was expected to treat in forty-five minutes the sub- 

 ject prescribed, " The Problems of Greek." He would have much preferred to 

 discuss some special topic, such, for instance, as meters, which he supposed 

 was even excluded as belonging to some other Section of the Congress. The 

 paper is printed exactly as it was read. M. W. H.] 



