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Gilbert Murray Quotes: The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
         

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.


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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.



Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.



Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.



It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.



The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.



Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?

Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?





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