[B-Greek] Barclay Newman's Revised Dictionary

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Oct 9 13:50:32 EDT 2010


On Oct 8, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Mark Lightman wrote:
> Thanks for the review, James.  In the review you wrote:
> 
> <The most obvious change was the addition of roots in parentheses after a  word 
> and the splitting of the root from the prefixes; it reminded me of An 
> Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon.  Personally, I like it, although others may 
> not. As long as one doesn't  try to use the root to shoehorn the definition, I 
> find knowing the root  of a word helpful; that is one feature of the middle 
> Liddell I always  liked.>
> 
> Me too.  I always want to know the root of a Greek word, not because I think 
> this has much to do with the meaning, but because I think it helps (me anyway) 
> remember the word.  This is the reason I prefer to use the Middle Liddell, 
> instead of Cunlife or Autenreich, while reading Homer.  This is also one 
> advantage Thayer has over Bauer.  It's the reason I think Trenchard is so 
> helpful. 

Mutatis mutandis -- nam de gustibus non est disputandum -- these are precisely the
reasons why I prefer Cunliffe or Autenrieth over Middle Liddell, Danker over
Thayer, and my own best recollection over Barclay Newman revised or unrevised.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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