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Loading... A Greek-English Lexicon : Compiled by Henry George Liddell and Robert…by Henry George Liddell (Co-author)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Although it's age is indeed showing and a new Greek-English Dictionary needs to be compiled upon modern lexographical principles, there is still nothing else that compares to the LSJ in terms of completeness and depth of coverage in a single-volume non-specialized dictionary of Ancient Greek. It still remains indispensible to any serious student of the Greek Language. ( )An absolutely fabulous book. It includes citations on usage, and development over time.
This ought to be the last LS revised by piecemeal accretion—agglutinatively, as linguists say. The next time the job has to be done from the root. The present editors acknowledge the need, confessing that “many articles require a more drastic rewriting than can be achieved by the addition, exclusion, or alteration of individual items. Minor changes may in fact only highlight shortcomings in the original articles.” Time and money and restricted staff and an inability to make “a systematic use” of “electronic retrieval facilities” prevented the necessary radical overhaul from being undertaken this time. In making this obvious point, I fear seeming ungrateful for what has here been so meticulously and nobly done. [Note: This review refers to the 9th edition, published in 1996.]
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