III. THE VERB; literally, "the word" in a sentence (i.e. the principal word); as, "Children, obey your parents." IV. THE PARTICIPLE; a word "partaking of" (Lat. particeps, i. e. partem capiens, part-taking) the nature both of a verb and an adjective; for, like a verb, it has tenses, and governs cases; as, ruling the city; having-ruled the city; and, like adjectives, it qualifies and has the power of agreement; as, the ruling city. The Indeclinable Parts of Speech are: V. THE PRE-POSITION; a word "placed before," in order to govern some case of a noun (Lat. præ, before; positum, placed); as, ad urbem (acc.), to the city. VI. THE AD-VERB; a word generally "attached to a verb," in sense (Lat. ad, to; verbum, a verb); as, he acted wrongly. It is also used 1. With participles; because they are parts of the verb; as, having acted wrongly and 2. With adjectives, which are often almost undistinguishable from participles; as, a decidedly flourishing town; sadly extravagant. They usually indicate, either 1. Time; as, then: 2. Place; as, there: or 3. Manner; as, harshly. VII. THE CONJUNCTION; a word "joining together" words or clauses; as, day and night (Lat. con, together; jungo, I join). It unites like cases of nouns, and like tenses of verbs; as, the history of the kings (gen.) and queens (gen.); he loves (pres.) and reverences (pres.) his father. VIII. THE INTER-JECTION; a word "thrown amongst" the other words of a sentence, but unconnected with them (Lat. inter, amongst; jactum, thrown); as, "he lived (alas!) too long for fame." NUMBER AND CASE. There are Three Numbers in Greek: 1. Singular ; which speaks of one only; as, ὁ ἵππος, the horse. 2. Dual; which speaks of two; as, τὼ ἵππω, the two horses. 3. Plural; which speaks of two, or more; as, οἱ ἵπποι, the horses. Each number has Five Cases, as will be seen below (Declension I.). NOUNS SUBSTANTIVE. The Declensions of Substantives are Ten: five of Simples, and five of Contracts. The first four declensions are pari-syllabic (Lat. par, equal; syllaba, syllable), i. e. have an equal number of syllables in the nominative and genitive. The fifth declension and all the contracts are im-parisyllabic (Lat. in, not; par, equal; syllaba, syllable), i. e. have not an equal number of syllables in the nominative and genitive, but increase in the genitive. DECLENSIONS OF SIMPLE SUBSTANTIVES. FIRST DECLENSION. Two terminations: -a s and -ns, both masculine; as, ỏ rauías, the steward; ỏ кpirns, the judge. Two terminations: -a and -n, both feminine; as, ἡ μοῦσα, the song; ἡ τιμὴ, the honour ; N.B. All words ending in a pure (i. e. with a vowel or p before it) must be declined like pɩλía; but All words ending in a not pure (i. e. with any consonant except before it) must be declined like μοῦσα. THIRD DECLENSION. Two terminations: -os, masc., fem., and com. ; -ov, neuter; as, ὁ λόγος, the word ; ἡ νόσος, the disease; ὁ, ἡ θεός, the God, the Goddess; rò úλov, the wood. Contracted nouns in cog, εov, ooc, oov, belong to this declension; as, |