Index of verb forms in Thucydides.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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9789004164390

Index of verb forms in Thucydides.

Ed. by Peter Stork.

BRILL

2008

242 pages

$109.00

Hardcover

PA4485

Stork (Greek emeritus, Leiden U.) has compiled all verb forms in the Historiae of Thucydides, with the total number of times the verbs occur and cross references to the compounds. He provides two appendices to verb forms in the manuscript versions but which have been...

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