CHRYSOLORAS

Concerning speech.

What is speech? A composition of words, signifying a complete thought. How many parts of speech are there? Eight: noun, verb, participle, article, pronoun, preposition, adverb, conjunction.

Concerning the noun.

How many properties follow the noun? Five: genders, species, figures, numbers, cases.

How many genders? Three: masculine, feminine, and neuter.

What is the masculine gender? That to which the article ὁ the is placed before it in the nominative and singular case, such as ὁ αἴας Aias.

What is the feminine gender? That to which the article ἡ the is placed before it in the nominative singular case, such as ἡ μοῦσα the Muse.

What is the neuter gender? That to which the article τὸ the is placed before it in the nominative and singular case, such as τὸ βῆμα the step/tribunal.

How many species? Two: primitive and derivative.

How many figures? Three: simple, compound, and double-compound.

How many numbers? Three: singular, dual, and plural.

How many cases? Five: the upright, which is also called the nominative, the genitive, the dative, the accusative, and the vocative.

Concerning articles.

Of the articles, some are prepositive, others postpositive. The prepositive masculines are these: singulars, the nominative ὁ; the genitive τοῦ; the dative τῷ.