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growth, so long as they conform to the radical formative instincts of the tongue, should 

 be admitted as legitimate variations, as kol^vco for ttoUw, (Wa/uwra for to come together, 

 for a.o-npo% white, /xavpos black, Kafiapovco to play the mighty swell, npoo-copivos provisory, 

 7roSo/3oA.eros the tramping of horses' hoofs, &c. 



XL On the other hand, I would not submit to curtailments from pure laziness, as Kpaa-i 

 for KpaaCov, ttouBC for -rraihiov, and cutting off the final 5 from the adjective or substantival 

 terminations, as £77/00 for £17/305 ; whether the terminations of the cases should be dropped 

 with the marked loss of the dative may be doubtful, but I am inclined to think the 

 terminations of the cases, being both easy and euphonious, should be preserved. 



XII. Of course in a language of pure growth, all borrowed words, unless when ab- 

 solutely necessary, should be ejected, as fiawopt, for steamboat and /Sa/o/ceVra a boat, and 

 such like. 



XIII. But perhaps the most effective way to put this matter before the eye of the 

 general scholar, will be to take a specimen of the colloquial Greek in the hands of a man 

 of taste and intelligence ; and for this purpose I could not select a better example than 

 Polylas' version of the Odyssey (Athens, 1875) into the popular Greek. 



Top aVSpa, p.ov<ra, Ae'ye p.ov, iroXvTpoirov, ttov €is p.£pt] 

 77-oAA.a iTrXavydrj, d(f>ov eppi-ije ttjv lepyv TpoiaSa' 

 icat avOpwTroov eiSe avTos ttoXXwv rats ^wpats /cat rip/ yvii)p.7]v 

 ep.a&e, Kal 's to -TreAaya iroWd TraOe £,r)T(i)VTa<; 

 p.e toijs crvvTp6(f>ovs a/3Aa7TTOS va. <p0do™r) s rrjv iraTpiSa. 

 dXX' 0/u.ojs oev Ka.T(j)p6(j}(T€ vd croxry tovs crvvTpotpovs- 

 art. v^aOrjKav p.6voi tov: air t dvop.-qp.ard tow;' 

 p.<i)poi, 'ttov t Yirepcova HAiou to. /?u>6ia <pdyav, 

 k eKeij/os t^s iTTiaTpotprj? tovs Trrjpe ttjv rjp.£pa- 

 rovra elwe KiLirovOe k ep.ds, @ed, KOpi] tov Alia. 



Tor' 01 dXXoi, 0V01 8e.v xadr/Kav, s rd o~ir'nia tovs oA' ijaav, 



0"(DO"/U.€l'Ol (X7TO TOV TToXep.0 Kal <X7T TOV TTcXdov TO. /3dur]- 



p,6vov avTOV, ttov tov 'Aenre rj TraTpiba Kat ?/ o^p-fiia, 



KpaTOva' r] vvp.<prj K.aXvij/d>, crtTTTrj Oed, p.e.ydX-q, 



's Ta KolXa o"rrrjXaia Kal dvSpa ttjs eVo^fi va tov Kapy. 



dXXd s tov kvkXo t£jv Kaipow 6 xpoi'os orav rjXBt, 



'ttov 's ttjv 'WaKr) tov 01 9eol vd yvprj et^av opiaret, 



Kal TOTi aKopaq ecrrei'a^€ p.aKpav tmv iroQ-qTwv tov- 



Kal 6'A' 01 Oeol XvwiovTav tov, dXX' 6\l 6 Tlouei8u>va<;- 



k ip.i(T avTOS Oavdaip-a tov Oelov 'OSvao-ea 



■rrplv cpOdcrr) 's ttjv TraTpiSa tov. dXX' et^e tot eKeivos 



7rcpao"€i s tovs AfflioTrais, ttov iripa KaTOiKOvcri, 



k eis 8vo o~\i(rp.ivoL evpio-KOvrai, wrepoi twv dvOpio-Trwv, 



tov 'HAiot), 'ttov /3yaiv , fj pua /xepia, tov HAioi!, ttov irtfpT , r] aXXrj, 



oltto Kpidpia vd Se^Ofj Kal ravpovs €KaTo>ji.jirj. 



In this passage I would absolutely reject as unsuitable for a pure literary style, (l) 

 ttov for 05, (2) the confusion of the accusative plural with the dative in x^/oais, (3) the 



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