Week 6: Proverb and Vocabulary Review

Before sharing all the Quia links, etc., I wanted to share this marvelous lecture by Emily Wilson that I listened to online earlier this week; she features... Greek proverbs and fables! How cool is that? In fact, the proverb she starts with is one that was in a blog post just last week: Περὶ ὄνου σκιᾶς. (Thanks so much to Kevin for alerting me to this lecture; I'm hoping the other 2 lectures in the series will be available online eventually, and if they are, I'll be sure to share those links also.)

Lecture III: The Wisdom of Stories with Emily Wilson

(introduction by Mary Norris)

Last week I posted some Quia activities for reviewing the fifth week of proverbs and vocabulary, plus noun and verb forms review; see the first week's review post for an explanation of how to use Quia activities, and you can find all my Quia materials here.

This week, I created the same activities for the Week 6 proverbs: Proverbs, Vocabulary, Vocabulary with Parts, and Noun Practice.

Here's the updated widget showing a random proverb:

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If you want to review this week's posts, here they are: Group 31 - Group 32 - Group 33 - Group 34 - Group 35 - Group 36. You can also listen to the audio for each group at SoundCloud (I'm still working on filling in the audio for the earlier weeks):

Laura Gibbs · Greek Vocabulary with Proverbs

Finally, here is the list of all of this week's proverbs, alphabetized and linked back to the blog post so that you can access the English translation and commentary as needed. Enjoy!

• Ἁλιεὺς πληγεὶς νοῦν οἴσει.
  
• Ἀνὴρ ὁ φεύγων καὶ πάλιν μαχήσεται.
  
• Ἀρχὴ τῆς σοφίας ἡ παιδεία.
  
• Ἀφ᾽ ἵππων ἐπ᾽ ὄνον.
  
• Βοῦν ἐπὶ γλώττης.
  
• Γνώμη γερόντων ἀσφαλεστέρα νέων.
  
• Δρυὸς πεσούσης πᾶς ἀνὴρ ξυλεύεται.
  
• Εἰς ἀρχαίας φάτνας.
  
• Ἐν λιμένι ναυαγεῖν.
  
• Ἰδοὺ Ῥόδος, ἰδοὺ καὶ πήδημα.
  
• Κοινὰ τὰ τῶν φίλων.
  
• Κρείσσων ἡ πρόνοια τῆς μεταμελείας.
  
• Λαγὼν κατὰ πόδας χρὴ διώκειν.
  
• Μητὲ μέλι, μητὲ μελίσσας.
  
• Ναρθηκοφόροι μὲν πολλοί, βάκχοι δέ τε παῦροι.
  
• Νῦν θεοὶ μάκαρες.
  
• Ὅμοια πόρνη δάκρυα καὶ ῥήτωρ ἔχει.
  
• Ὄντες οἴκοι μὲν λέοντες, ἐν μάχῃ δ᾿ ἀλώπεκες.
  
• Πάτροκλος πρόφασις.
  
• Πενία γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τρόπων διδάσκαλος.
  
• Πηγάσου ταχύτερος.
  
• Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι, πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς.
  
• Ποταμὸς θάλασσαν ἐρίζει.
  
• Πρίν κεν λύκος οἶν ὑμεναιοῖ.
  
• Ῥαδαμάνθυος ὅρκος.
  
• Σοφία δὲ πλούτου κτῆμα τιμιώτερον.
  
• Τὰ δειλὰ κέρδη πημονὰς ἐργάζεται.
  
• Τόπων μεταβολαὶ οὔτε φρόνησιν διδάσκουσιν οὔτε ἀφροσύνην ἀφαιροῦνται.
  
• Χαῖρε, φίλον φῶς.
  
• Χρόνος τὰ κρυπτὰ πάντα ἐς φάος ἄγει.
  

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