This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...x.v.Ka T- arootyiua., your Excellency IS, npt well informed of the matter. CHAPTER XXXI NOUNS OF NUMBER. i.To express a quantity, the cardinal numerals are ranged in succession, from the highest to the lowest, without any conjunction; as, x'hl" Oktolx-'ouioi, nKoai Tto-j-ac -f6fwero, one thousand, eight hundred, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...x.v.Ka T- arootyiua., your Excellency IS, npt well informed of the matter. CHAPTER XXXI NOUNS OF NUMBER. i.To express a quantity, the cardinal numerals are ranged in succession, from the highest to the lowest, without any conjunction; as, x'hl" Oktolx-'ouioi, nKoai Tto-j-ac -f6fwero, one thousand, eight hundred, and twenty four Men. Dates are expressed in the Neuter Gender, % take the Article; as, -/' Ayafwoi inoav rm mohtr fi'c To. ikiol Ttratcofia. nnvvvTO. Cito Xfw-B j ix_zrav riiv KifitQit (l)xai iroMci ahh- ff-f(- ( xaVrfa ) T?c Hiho-tranvia, (If ra %JKia. oKTaxoeioi iiKoat Tf/a. ihc lurks took Constantinople, in the year of our Lord One thousand, four hundred and fifty three. They lost Corinth, and several other Fortresses of the Morea, in i8a3; Xf'a is understood: it is even sometimes expressed. 2. The Ordinal Numbers follow the same construction; lit rr, v iKXTOSTriv raxivrit Tflrtir O'hufimtzlx, in the one hundred and thirty third Olympiad, 3/ To express many thousands, the substantive X'(t preceded by a cardinal number, is declined, and the Noun, (i) Mons, r David has here, rather unadvisedly, assumed the Character of a Prophet, or retailer of Prophecies, predicting the fall of Constantinople in 1821. I have altered the Phrase, whose quantity it determines, is put in the same case; hy.oTusri luo yjxrllu; dtQfdvrvf, he killed two thousand Men. 4-The idea of half is expressed in two Ways; I., hy the adjective per-hc, -, it, half, following the substantive, with the intervening copulative Kui; UdQurx Vro riajj/Vi Sixa x?'a ' /""-?resided, in Paris ten years and a half; 'Itayt Sua o-: fS--c /www, ( raw ). He ate two Partridges and a half; II.P, by the substantive iumv, a half immediately fo...
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