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-μι verbs. When I took first-year Greek long ago, Mrs. Pearson, our teacher, said that she got up an hour early to review before teaching them.

σοφία γάρ ἐστι καὶ μαθεῖν ἃ μὴ νοεῖς.
Menander

The perfect and pluperfect are far less common in Greek than in English; Greek uses the aorist in many instances that English would use the perfect.

The forms are pretty distinct and easy to recognize in most cases.

A heaping helping of participles (present, future, and aorist). Luschnig has added a lot of additional readings since the preliminary edition I used in college. In this chapter, stories of Deucalion and Perseus from Apollodoros.

In the exercises we find this charming bit (Luschnig channeling Thucydides?):

βιβλίον ἀγαθόν ἐστι κτῆμα εἰς ἀεί.

(a good book is a possession forever)

The third declension! Mark Twain would probably rather decline three Greek (Φιξ) beers instead!

My Latin students used to complain that Latin indirect discourse was too complicated. Greek makes it look pretty straightforward.

The joys of the aorist!

Holy fucking shit our class blitzed through like 100 pages and my brain hurts

Crying