Announcing first releases of Greek and Latin grammars.

December 16, 1997

Support from the National Endowment for the Humanities has allowed us to create Web based versions of Smyth's Greek Grammar (1921) and Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (Ginn and Company 1903).

(NOTE: The 1921 Smyth Grammar is virtually identical to the revised version published in the 1950s.)

For now, these grammars can be cited by their conventional paragraph scheme. The URL for Smyth paragraph 300 is:

/cgi-bin/text?lookup=smyth+300

Likewise, the URL for the Allen and Greenough paragraph 300 is:

/cgi-bin/text?lookup=ag+gram.+300

You can consult tables of contents for Allen and Greenough or Smyth, as well.

These grammars are still very much *works in progress* and can stand a good deal more refinement. The basic text entry is fairly solid (although some typos remain) but areas that could use additional work include:

Distinguishing the Latin in A&G: The Latin phrases are not marked by any consistent text formatting and we have not always been able to mark what is and is not Latin. Likewise, we have tried to highlight as many "glosses" as we could, but some have escaped us.
Converting all the text citations into active links to Perseus texts: We have tried to create links to texts on-line, but some of these citations may have been missed; other links may still be problematic.
We do not yet have characters to represent adequately all the metrical signs used. Likwise, we cannot display over the WWW yet all numerical signs or other special characters.
You cannot yet call up a separate paragraph (e.g. AG 405) or subsection (e.g. AG 405b). Instead, you get whatever "section" that paragraph appears in.
The tables used to represent paradigms need refinement.

Please report all problems (esp. typos, broken links etc.) to the Perseus webmaster.