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participial nominative in ^iwras for ^rav, (4) the cutting out of the augment in wade, 

 and other aorists, (5) pe for fieTa. (G) tovs for twv, i. v. 7, (7) the curtailment of the accusa- 

 tive in -qpipa for-qpepav, ir6\epo for irokepov, and others, (8) Atafor the gen. Aios, (9) the 

 ejection of the y in ireXdov, (10) davdenpa adverb for Oavaa-Lpws, (11) pepud for pepis, and 

 (12) wecfiT for irnnei. The other departures from the literary style of bookish tradition I 

 would tolerate. At the same time, whatever irregularities may have crept into the popular 

 ballads and the colloquial style of the common people, not to be accepted as part of a 

 reasonable compromise, let the lower platform still continue to assert itself in its special 

 province, like Scotch alongside of English ; and as such there is doubtless a peculiar 

 appropriateness in its being used as a medium for making the popular ear familiar with 

 the great work of the greatest popular bard of the ancient world, a bard whose style is, 

 in fact, as distinct from the classical Greek in the time of Plato and Demosthenes, as the 

 Scotch of Eobert Burns is distinct from the English of Milton. 



