Added: Nov 18, 2008
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Greek folk-songs from the Turkish provinces of Greece Albania, Thessaly, (not yet wholly free) and Macedonia: literal and metrical translations detail, will easily find out for himself by comparing the Alexandrian Greek of the New Testament with Attic Greek on the one side, and Romaic Greek on the other. But it is now more than thirty years since Professor Blackie first forcibly pointed out that the Neo-Hellenic of Tricoupis is but such a Dialect of Greek as the Ionic of Homer, or Doric of Theocritus ; and that, great as are the changes in English pronunciation since even Chaucer's time, the accent in Greek is still on the very syllables accented by the grammarians of the days of the Ptolemies, mere than two thousand years ago. Not even yet, however, is this fact
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