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| A | Euripides Bacchae 215-234 | Pentheus explains to the audience how he will punish the bacchants | supplementary participle | accusative and infinitive | correlative | μέν…δέ... |
| A | Euripides Hecuba 303-320 | Odysseus explains the double need to honour the dead Achilles | correlative | accusative and infinitive | genitive absolute | δε pointing forward | present general temporal clause | τις | οὐκοῦν or οὔκουν | μέν…δέ... | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | τις | future real conditional | μέν…δέ... | crasis | future unreal conditional |
| A | Euripides Helen 557-574 | Menelaus and Helen recognise each other after a long separation. | stichomythia | prohibition |
| A | Euripides Iphigeneia in Tauris 499-516 | Iphigenia questions a mysterious visitor (Orestes) to Tauris before he can be sacrificed at the temple where she serves as priestess | |
| A | Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 1056-1073 | Iphigenia asks the chorus for support | third person imperative | crasis | τε | ethic dative | ὁστις | primary purpose clause | ὁστις |
| A | Euripides Medea 231-251 | Medea bewails the lot of women | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | crasis |
| A | Euripides Phoenissae 10-25 | Jocasta tells how Oedipus came to be born, and how Laius, in remorse for his disobedience to Apollo’s command, handed the baby over to be exposed. | prohibition | γάρ | future future conditional | infinitives | relative clauses |
| A | Herodotus Histories 1.36 | The Mysians ask Croesus for his help with a beast who is ravaging their fields | |
| A | Herodotus Histories 1.8 | Candaules makes a foolish proposition to Gyges
| genitive absolute | δε pointing forward | οἱ for ἀυτῳ | possessive dative | ὦν for οὖν | article as pronoun | dative of agent |
| A | Homer Iliad 1.23-42 | Agamemnon’s curse angers Chryses, who prays to Apollo for vengeance | |
| A | Homer Iliad 1.498-516 | Thetis pleads with Zeus to honour her son | |
| A | Homer Iliad 24.314-332 | Zeus sends a portent to Priam to speed him on his way to the Achaean camp | |
| A | Homer Iliad 6.214-231 | Glaucon and Diomedes realise old allegiances | accusative of respect | subjunctive for indefinite future | μέν…δέ... | present general relative clause | hortative subjunctive | primary purpose clause | deictic δε | hortative subjunctive |
| A | Homer Odyssey 19 474-490 | Eurycleia makes a dangerous realisation | πρίν | negative | deictic δε |
| A | Homer Odyssey 4 554-569 | Menelaus has asked the Old Man of the Sea which members of the returning army are alive. He is given the answer, and also told of his own fate. | potential optative | article as pronoun | article as pronoun | tmesis | potential optative | prohibition | third person imperative | infinitives |
| A | Homer Odyssey 7.22-36 | Odysseus asks for directions from Athena, who is disguised as a young girl. | |
| A | Homer Odyssey 8 214-234 | Odysseus recounts his skills | |
| A | Homer Odyssey 9 252-266 | The Cyclops asks Odysseus and his men to introduce themselves; Odysseus swallows his fear to explain where they’ve come from.
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| A | Lysias Against Agoratus 13.3-6 | The political situation in which Agoratus, according to the prosecution, committed his crimes. | δεῖ | genitive of hearing | primary purpose clause | relative clauses | ὁστις | μέλλω | deictic iota | circumstantial participle | correlative |
| A | Lysias Speeches 1.23-25 | Eratosthenes caught red-handed | indirect command | μέν…δέ... | genitive absolute | μέν…δέ... | circumstantial participle |
| A | Lysias Speeches 1.47-50 | Euphiletus points out the unjustness of the current system | accusative and infinitive | relative clauses | future real conditional | comparison | καί as also/too | εἰ δὲ μή | infinitives | μέν…δέ... | ὁστις |
| A | Lysias Speeches 3.5-7 | The defendant relates how Simon broke into his house and embarrassed his female relatives in his amorous pursuit of Theodotus | μέν…δέ... | correlative | μέν…δέ... | infinitives | relative clauses | result clause with infinitive | genitive absolute | ὥστε | pronouns | result clause with infinitive | πρίν | ὥστε |
| A | Lysias Speeches 30.27-30 | The prosecutor contrasts Nicomachus’ character with that of the great law-makers of the past. | |
| A | Plato Crito 53a-c | Socrates imagines how the laws might respond if he breaks them | subordinate clause first | relative clauses | ὥστε |
| A | Plato Euthyphro 7a-c | Socrates establishes what is holy, what is unholy, and which kinds of disagreements lead to hatred and anger.
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| A | Plato Gorgias 522c-e | Should Socrates worry about his inability to defend himself by rhetoric? | γε | dative of agent | articular infinitive |
| A | Plato Protagoras 319b-c | Socrates describes the Athenians' practice of turning to the professionals for expert advice. | τος sufix | correlative | present general conditional | crasis | καί as also/too |
| A | Xenophon Anabasis 2.6.16-19 | The ambitions and weaknesses of the Boeotian soldier Proxenus are dissected. | infinitives | future infinitive |
| A | Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.9-10 | At a council of war, the Greeks interpret a sneeze as a sign from the gods | genitive absolute | deictic δε | optative in indirect speech | supplementary participle | ὁστις | third person imperative | μέν…δέ... | genitive absolute |
| A | Xenophon Economics 7.4-8 | Socrates enquires as to the training of Ischomachus' wife | καί as also/too | πότερον or πότερα | result clause with infinitive | οἱος | ὥστε | μέν…δέ... | ἄν | future optative | ὅπως | connecting relative | result clause with infinitive | γε | τε | ὥστε |
| A | Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.54-6 | Critias hands over Theramenes to the Eleven. The Eleven and their servants drag him off and Xenophon recalls his subsequent behaviour. | relative clauses | circumstantial participle | deictic iota | relative clauses | articular infinitive | μέν…δέ... |
| A | Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.6-9 | The surrender of Samos marks the end of the war and the Spartan Lysander returns with the spoils | εἴ τι ἄλλο | circumstantial participle | κατά distributive |
| A | Xenophon Hellenica 4.8.4 | The Spartan governor of Abydus asks the citizens to remain loyal even in the aftermath of a naval defeat. | |
| A | Xenophon Memorabilia 1.1-3 | Xenophon ponders some of the charges brought against Socrates | |
| A | Xenophon Memorabilia 2.9.1.3 | The narrator remembers a discussion between Socrates and Crito on the subject of self-interest. | |
| A | Xenophon Symposium 4.29-31 | Charmides explains how to live in the city and explores the problems of being rich, going on to explain why a poor man has fewer worries. | fear clause with the optative | ὡς | optative in indirect speech | comparison |
| B | Euripides Alcestis 935-953 | Admetus recognises that he should not have let his wife Alcestis die instead of him. | genitive of comparison | genitive of touch after ἅπτομαι |
| B | Euripides Andromache 56-73 | Andromache's former servant warns her of a Greek plan to kill her son | ὡς | indefinite question words |
| B | Euripides Children of Heracles 1018-38 | The chorus, Alcmene and Eurystheus debate the fate of Eurystheus | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | relative clauses |
| B | Euripides Electra 341-357 | Electra and her husband discuss the arrival of strangers | μέν…δέ... | οὐκοῦν or οὔκουν | που | γάρ | deictic δε | ἀλλά |
| B | Euripides Electra 503-519 | The Old Man (who had been Agamemon's guardian) has some encouraging news for Electra. | μῶν | τε | που |
| B | Euripides Medea 231-251 | Medea bewails the lot of women | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | crasis |
| B | Euripides Medea 869-894 | Medea tells Jason she repents of her previous words | infinitives |
| B | Euripides Phoenissae 452-470 | Jocasta tries to mediate between her two sons Polynices and Eteocles, who are locked in a life-and-death struggle for control of Thebes. She advises them to exercise judgement and restraint. Polynices answers. | crasis | τε | imperative | present general temporal clause |
| B | Herodotus Histories 1.36 | The Mysians ask Croesus for his help with a beast who is ravaging their fields | |
| B | Herodotus Histories 1.8 | Candaules makes a foolish proposition to Gyges
| genitive absolute | δε pointing forward | οἱ for ἀυτῳ | possessive dative | ὦν for οὖν | article as pronoun | dative of agent |
| B | Herodotus Histories 2.118 | The Egyptian priests tell Herodotus their version of the Trojan war. | genitive absolute | δε pointing forward |
| B | Herodotus Histories 2.120 | Why Herodotus believes the Trojans’ claim that Helen was never in Troy. | past unreal conditional | γε | circumstantial participle | result clause with indicative | secondary purpose clause | secondary purpose clause with the subjunctive |
| B | Herodotus Histories 4.97 | Darius is advised not to destroy a bridge | genitive absolute | attributive participle | circumstantial participle | εἰ as whether | genitive of time or place within which | correlative | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | γε | indefinite question words | fear clause with subjunctive |
| B | Herodotus Histories 9.82 | Pausanias compares Greek and Persian meals | |
| B | Homer Iliad 1.23-42 | Agamemnon’s curse angers Chryses, who prays to Apollo for vengeance | |
| B | Homer Iliad 1.498-516 | Thetis pleads with Zeus to honour her son | |
| B | Homer Iliad 19.28-41 | Thetis reassures Achilles about what will happen to Patroclus’ corpse. She will tend to it and ensure its preservation. | third person imperative | article as pronoun | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | possessive dative |
| B | Homer Iliad 22.249-269 | Hector asks Achilles for an agreement that the victor in combat will give back the body of the slain to his family for burial. | |
| B | Homer Iliad 24.314-332 | Zeus sends a portent to Priam to speed him on his way to the Achaean camp | |
| B | Homer Iliad 6.214-231 | Glaucon and Diomedes realise old allegiances | accusative of respect | subjunctive for indefinite future | μέν…δέ... | present general relative clause | hortative subjunctive | primary purpose clause | deictic δε | hortative subjunctive |
| B | Homer Iliad 6.466-481 | Astyanax is frightened by his father’s appearance | |
| B | Homer Iliad 9 182-198 | Odysseus and Ajax attempt to placate Achilles | |
| B | Homer Odyssey 13 128-145 | Poseidon complains that the Phaeaecians have been disrespecting his wishes in taking Odysseus back to Ithaca. Zeus placates him. | exclamatory relative | relative clauses | past unreal conditional | infinitives |
| B | Homer Odyssey 16 70-86 | Telemachus tells Eumaeus what can be done to entertain a stranger who has recently arrived in Ithaca | μέν…δέ... | primary purpose clause | negative | present real conditional |
| B | Homer Odyssey 8 214-234 | Odysseus recounts his skills | |
| B | Lysias Against Agoratus 13.3-6 | The political situation in which Agoratus, according to the prosecution, committed his crimes. | δεῖ | genitive of hearing | primary purpose clause | relative clauses | ὁστις | μέλλω | deictic iota | circumstantial participle | correlative |
| B | Lysias Speeches 1.23-25 | Eratosthenes caught red-handed | indirect command | μέν…δέ... | genitive absolute | μέν…δέ... | circumstantial participle |
| B | Lysias Speeches 1.47-50 | Euphiletus points out the unjustness of the current system | accusative and infinitive | relative clauses | future real conditional | comparison | καί as also/too | εἰ δὲ μή | infinitives | μέν…δέ... | ὁστις |
| B | Lysias Speeches 1.9-11 | Euphiletus describes the background to the killing | genitive of touch after ἅπτομαι | καί as also/too | μέν…δέ... | negative | optative in historic indefinite clause | secondary purpose clause with the subjunctive | result clause with indicative | future participle expressing purpose | ὡς | ὥστε | secondary purpose clause with the subjunctive | negative | result clause with indicative | accusative and infinitive | genitive absolute | secondary purpose clause with the subjunctive |
| B | Lysias Speeches 19.55-57 | A litigant tells the jury of his blameless life and how his father contributed to public expenditure without, unlike others, expecting anything in return. | |
| B | Lysias Speeches 3.5-7 | The defendant relates how Simon broke into his house and embarrassed his female relatives in his amorous pursuit of Theodotus | μέν…δέ... | correlative | μέν…δέ... | infinitives | relative clauses | result clause with infinitive | genitive absolute | ὥστε | pronouns | result clause with infinitive | πρίν | ὥστε |
| B | Lysias Speeches 6.50-52 | The accuser recapitulates his argument at the end of the speech and lists the various crimes that have led the defendant Andocides to be brought to trial for impiety. | dative of agent | γάρ | result clause with indicative | articular infinitive | ὥστε | third person imperative | personal δοκεῖ | correlative | γάρ |
| B | Plato Charmides 159 a-c | Moderation in all things | εἴτε | accusative and infinitive | πότερον or πότερα | optative in indirect speech | pronouns |
| B | Plato Crito 44e-45b3 | Crito tries to allay some of Socrates' fears | genitive of comparison | ἆρα μή | fear clause with subjunctive | ὡς | circumstantial participle |
| B | Plato Crito 47d-48a | Socrates shows Crito that we must listen to experts when considering questions of right and wrong | present general conditional | τος sufix |
| B | Plato Crito 53a-c | Socrates imagines how the laws might respond if he breaks them | subordinate clause first | relative clauses | ὥστε |
| B | Plato Gorgias 524b2-d4 | Socrates describes the similarity between soul and body after the two are separated at death and continues to explain how other, more extreme experiences of the body would be reflected after death. | dual |
| B | Plato Hippias Major 285b7-e2 | What sort of lectures do the Spartans enjoy? | result clause with indicative | ὥστε | μήν |
| B | Plato Hippias Minor 364 c-e | Socrates and the sophist Hippias discuss Homer | enclitic τις with an accent | infinitives | δε pointing forward | infinitives | μέν…δέ... | mixed conditional | present real conditional | γάρ |
| B | Plato Ion 540d5-541a6 | Socrates makes distinctions between different arts | ἄρα | καί as also/too |
| B | Plato Republic 2 375a2-b11 | The similarity between human and canine guards | οἱος | relative clauses | pronouns |
| B | Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.4-6 | Cleanor bewails deceit and bad faith on the part of the Great King, Tissaphernes and Ariaios | δε pointing forward | relative clauses |
| B | Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.9-10 | At a council of war, the Greeks interpret a sneeze as a sign from the gods | genitive absolute | deictic δε | optative in indirect speech | supplementary participle | ὁστις | third person imperative | μέν…δέ... | genitive absolute |
| B | Xenophon Constitution of the Athenians 1.13-16 | How athletics, music and the allies are treated in Athens
| μέν…δέ... | γοῦν | primary purpose clause | circumstantial participle | circumstantial participle | dative of advantage | potential optative | τις | εἰ as complement |
| B | Xenophon Economics 7.35-7 | The duties of a wife are explained to her | καί as also/too | correlative | μέν…δέ... | correlative | μέν…δέ... | gerundive | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | γε |
| B | Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.47-48 | Theramenes and Critias are discussing their political views. Theramenes responds robustly to the accusation that he is two-faced. He criticizes Critias’ attitude towards the political system, and puts forward his views as to who should participate in the government. | ὡς | correlative | γάρ | μέν…δέ... | articular infinitive |
| B | Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.54-6 | Critias hands over Theramenes to the Eleven. The Eleven and their servants drag him off and Xenophon recalls his subsequent behaviour. | relative clauses | circumstantial participle | deictic iota | relative clauses | articular infinitive | μέν…δέ... |
| C | Aeschylus Eumenides 454-469 | Orestes relates his history to Athena. | crasis | ὡς | relative clauses |
| C | Andocides On the Peace 17-19 | The Athenians are reminded just how generous the terms of peace given by the Spartans are. | μέν…δέ... | past unreal conditional |
| C | Demosthenes On the Peace 5.1-2 | Demosthenes bemoans the Athenians' approach to decision-making | articular infinitive | μέν…δέ... | genitive absolute | participle in indirect statement after verbs of perceiving | μέν…δέ... |
| C | Demosthenes Speeches 18.177-9 | Demosthenes recalls a speech in which he gave some advice on how best to handle the Thebans | accusative and infinitive | δεῖ | μέν…δέ... | genitive absolute | word order |
| C | Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6 | A litigant complains that his opponent's speech has proved nothing; what is more, he has wrongly tried to stir up prejudice against women serving as wet-nurses. | infinitives | μέν…δέ... | relative clauses | word order | prohibition | καί as also/too | γάρ | future real conditional | attributive participle | present unreal conditional | οὔτε…οὔτε | prohibition | articular infinitive | attributive participle | γε |
| C | Demosthenes Third Philippic 9.25–27 | Demosthenes catalogues Philip of Macedon’s recent military and political victories to prove that nothing in Greek history can compare to his recent injustices. | μέν…δέ... | κατά distributive |
| C | Demosthenes Third Phillippic 9.53 | Demosthenes advises strong action against the Athenian supporters of Philip. | circumstantial participle | πρίν | attributive participle | connecting relative | καί as also/too | result clause with indicative | fear clause with subjunctive | ὥστε | articular infinitive |
| C | Euripides Alcestis 614-32 | At the funeral of Admetus’ wife Alcestis, his father Pheres offers words of consolation. | |
| C | Euripides Alcestis 779-793 | Advice from Herakles: enjoy life while you can | relative clause misbehaving | γάρ | ἀλλά |
| C | Euripides Bacchae 215-234 | Pentheus explains to the audience how he will punish the bacchants | supplementary participle | accusative and infinitive | correlative | μέν…δέ... |
| C | Euripides Bacchae 43-61 | The god Dionysus explains why he has come to the city of Thebes. | future real conditional |
| C | Euripides Children of Heracles 501-22 | One of Heracles' daughters considers the options and decides it would be best if she died for the city rather than anyone else. | πρίν | μέν…δέ... | accusative absolute | infinitives | future real conditional | question | crasis |
| C | Euripides Electra 341-357 | Electra and her husband discuss the arrival of strangers | μέν…δέ... | οὐκοῦν or οὔκουν | που | γάρ | deictic δε | ἀλλά |
| C | Euripides Ion 289-307 | Ion quizzes Creusa about her husband and their reasons for consulting the oracle | exclamatory relative | crasis | ὡς |
| C | Homer Iliad 1.172-192 | Agamemnon threatens Achilles | |
| C | Homer Iliad 24.32-49 | Apollo suggests that the other immortals respect Hector | |
| C | Homer Iliad 24.723-745 | Andromache laments for her husband | |
| C | Homer Iliad 6.263-285 | Hector asks his mother to pray to Athena on his behalf | μή | wish optative | future unreal conditional | γε |
| C | Homer Iliad 6.343-358 | Helen admits the weaknesses of Paris and urges Hector to come and sit with her | |
| C | Homer Iliad 8.1-17 | Zeus calls a council of the gods and goddesses to warn them about helping either side | third person imperative | μή |
| C | Homer Odyssey 1.345-359 | Telemachus reproaches Penelope for telling the bard to stop singing about the Trojan War | question | relative clauses | present general relative clause |
| C | Homer Odyssey 15 265-281 | Telemachus befriends a refugee | possessive dative | future participle expressing purpose |
| C | Homer Odyssey 2 6-20 | Telemachus marks his assembly debut with a dashing entrance | γάρ |
| C | Homer Odyssey 3 79-97 | Telemachus asks Nestor for news of his father | deictic δε | ἐαν as 'in the hope that' | μέν…δέ... | relative clauses |
| C | Homer Odyssey 7 244-58 | Odysseus tells Arete how he reached Calypso's island Ogygia | τις | dative of time when or place at which |
| C | Homeric Hymn to Hermes 4.254-272 | Apollo challenges the new-born Hermes with knowing about his missing cattle | |
| C | Isocrates To Demonicus 1.13-15 | Isocrates gives Demonicus some advice on how to become virtuous and improve one's reputation | correlative | correlative | μέν…δέ... | μέν…δέ... |
| C | Lysias Speeches 14.1-2 | No excuse is needed for prosecuting someone so thoroughly disgraceful as Alcibiades. | result clause with indicative | present real conditional | relative clauses |
| C | Lysias Speeches 24.21-23 | The speaker pleads for retention of a disability allowance | correlative | circumstantial participle | μέν…δέ... |
| C | Plato Euthydemus 273c1-e2 | What do two sophists, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, teach? | correlative | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | dual |
| C | Plato Gorgias 483a7-c6 | Callicles describes different kinds of wrong-doing | μέν…δέ... | articular infinitive | cognate accusative | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | circumstantial participle | attributive participle |
| C | Plato Lysis 207e1-208b1 | Socrates asks a teenager whether his parents allow him to drive their chariot | δε pointing forward | ἄν | οὐκοῦν or οὔκουν | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | ἄν |
| C | Plato Protagoras 310b-d | Socrates has an unexpected visit | genitive of time or place within which | deictic iota |
| C | Plato Protagoras 310d-311d | Socrates questions Hippocrates' motives for going to see Protagoras | μῶν | ὡς | wish optative | future unreal conditional | ὡς | ὡς | ὡς |
| C | Plato Protagoras 334c7-335a3 | Socrates asks Protagoras to adjust his arguments to his audience | τυγχάνω | πότερον or πότερα | correlative |
| C | Sophocles Antigone 497-511 | Antigone and Creon argue about how shameful her actions are | wish optative | exclamatory relative | potential indicative | future unreal conditional | crasis | τε | γάρ |
| C | Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 1-18 | Oedipus and Antigone arrive at the outskirts of Athens | crasis | ἄν | primary purpose clause | indirect question | deictic δε | ὡς |
| C | Sophocles Oedipus Coloneus 1291-1307 | Polyneices explains his actions | connecting relative |
| C | Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus 447-462 | Teiresias boldy tells Oedipus that he will not leave before revealing a horrible truth | relative clauses | infinitive as imperative |
| C | Xenophon Anabasis 4.8 | A former slave, instructed by Xenophon, negotiates a truce between Greeks and barbarians | accusative and infinitive | optative in indirect speech | accusative and infinitive | present real conditional | indirect question | ἀλλά | ὄτι in direct speech | indirect command | future participle expressing purpose | γε | indirect question | potential optative | καί…καί | accusative and infinitive |
| C | Xenophon Economics 3.10-12 | Some men try to live co-operatively with their wives: but whose fault is it when they go wrong? | μέν…δέ... | result clause with infinitive | ὥστε | μέν…δέ... | question |
| C | Xenophon Hiero 6.1-4 | Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown | μέν…δέ... | articular infinitive | articular infinitive | μέν…δέ... | articular infinitive | εἴ τι ἄλλο | dative of similarity |
| C | Xenophon Memorabilia 1.1.20-2.2.2
| How could Socrates have made other people bad since he was so wise himself? | correlative | accusative and infinitive | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | articular infinitive |
| D | Aeschylus Eumenides 454-469 | Orestes relates his history to Athena. | crasis | ὡς | relative clauses |
| D | Aeschylus Persians 447-65 | Xerxes' disastrous strategy | τις | exclamatory relative |
| D | Antiphon On the murder of Herodes 5.26-27 | Amphibious murder | genitive absolute | μέν…δέ... | μέν…δέ... | word order |
| D | Aristophanes Clouds 1043-57 | The Better Argument and the Worse Argument debate: are hot baths bad for one's character? | question | word order | question | δῆτα |
| D | Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1144-1162 | Blepyrus goes off to celebrate, and the Chorus commend their play to the judges | articular infinitive | οὐκοῦν or οὔκουν | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | infinitives |
| D | Aristophanes Peace 215-233 | Hermes predicts to the Athenian Trygaeus what Peace and War will do if a truce with the Spartans is rejected | genitive of time or place within which | accusative of respect | gerundive | mixed conditional | γοῦν |
| D | Demosthenes On the Peace 5.1-2 | Demosthenes bemoans the Athenians' approach to decision-making | articular infinitive | μέν…δέ... | genitive absolute | participle in indirect statement after verbs of perceiving | μέν…δέ... |
| D | Demosthenes Speeches 18.177-9 | Demosthenes recalls a speech in which he gave some advice on how best to handle the Thebans | accusative and infinitive | δεῖ | μέν…δέ... | genitive absolute | word order |
| D | Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6 | A litigant complains that his opponent's speech has proved nothing; what is more, he has wrongly tried to stir up prejudice against women serving as wet-nurses. | infinitives | μέν…δέ... | relative clauses | word order | prohibition | καί as also/too | γάρ | future real conditional | attributive participle | present unreal conditional | οὔτε…οὔτε | prohibition | articular infinitive | attributive participle | γε |
| D | Demosthenes Third Philippic 9.25–27 | Demosthenes catalogues Philip of Macedon’s recent military and political victories to prove that nothing in Greek history can compare to his recent injustices. | μέν…δέ... | κατά distributive |
| D | Demosthenes Third Phillippic 9.53 | Demosthenes advises strong action against the Athenian supporters of Philip. | circumstantial participle | πρίν | attributive participle | connecting relative | καί as also/too | result clause with indicative | fear clause with subjunctive | ὥστε | articular infinitive |
| D | Euripides Andromache 1-6, 8-19 | Andromache introduces herself to the audience with a brief summary of what she has suffered so far. | ἵνα with indicative |
| D | Euripides Andromache 624-44 | Peleus reproaches Menelaus for his record of bad behaviour | μή | μή | infinitives |
| D | Euripides Bacchae 215-234 | Pentheus explains to the audience how he will punish the bacchants | supplementary participle | accusative and infinitive | correlative | μέν…δέ... |
| D | Euripides Bacchae 43-61 | The god Dionysus explains why he has come to the city of Thebes. | future real conditional |
| D | Euripides Children of Heracles 501-22 | One of Heracles' daughters considers the options and decides it would be best if she died for the city rather than anyone else. | πρίν | μέν…δέ... | accusative absolute | infinitives | future real conditional | question | crasis |
| D | Euripides Electra 341-357 | Electra and her husband discuss the arrival of strangers | μέν…δέ... | οὐκοῦν or οὔκουν | που | γάρ | deictic δε | ἀλλά |
| D | Homer Iliad 1.172-192 | Agamemnon threatens Achilles | |
| D | Homer Iliad 16.2-19 | Achilles asks Patroclus why he is crying. | primary purpose clause | epic τε |
| D | Homer Iliad 16.439-457 | Hera warns Zeus | exclamatory relative | μή | article as pronoun |
| D | Homer Iliad 22.1-24 | Achilles makes for Troy | |
| D | Homer Iliad 24.32-49 | Apollo suggests that the other immortals respect Hector | |
| D | Homer Iliad 24.723-745 | Andromache laments for her husband | |
| D | Homer Iliad 6.263-285 | Hector asks his mother to pray to Athena on his behalf | μή | wish optative | future unreal conditional | γε |
| D | Homer Iliad 6.343-358 | Helen admits the weaknesses of Paris and urges Hector to come and sit with her | |
| D | Homer Iliad 9.624-42 | Ajax suggests to Odysseus that they give up with their attempt to persuade Achilles | |
| D | Homer Odyssey 1 80-95 | Athena outlines her plan for Odysseus' return | ἐαν as 'in the hope that' | future participle expressing purpose |
| D | Homer Odyssey 11.51-76 | Odysseus describes the plea Elpenor makes in the underworld | |
| D | Homer Odyssey 2.87-103 | The suitor Antinous accuses Penelope of foul play | |
| D | Homer Odyssey 3.75-91 | Telemachus answers Nestor's questions and asks in turn about Odysseus | ἐαν as 'in the hope that' | accusative and infinitive | circumstantial participle |
| D | Homer Odyssey 7 244-58 | Odysseus tells Arete how he reached Calypso's island Ogygia | τις | dative of time when or place at which |
| D | Homer Odyssey 8 62-82 | A bard is brought in to sing to the Phaeacians | |
| D | Homeric Hymn to Hermes 4.254-272 | Apollo challenges the new-born Hermes with knowing about his missing cattle | |
| D | Isocrates Letters 3 (Nicocles) 14-16 | Monarchy rules OK | μέν…δέ... | present general conditional | γε | articular infinitive |
| D | Isocrates To Demonicus 1.13-15 | Isocrates gives Demonicus some advice on how to become virtuous and improve one's reputation | correlative | correlative | μέν…δέ... | μέν…δέ... |
| D | Lysias Speeches 24.4-6 | A defendant argues that he should not be deprived of a disability allowance from the city | accusative and infinitive |
| D | Plato Euthydemus 273c1-e2 | What do two sophists, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, teach? | correlative | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | dual |
| D | Plato Gorgias 523a1-c1 | Socrates explains how the judgement of men at their death changed after the age of Kronos. | δε pointing forward | μέν…δέ... |
| D | Plato Lysis 207e1-208b1 | Socrates asks a teenager whether his parents allow him to drive their chariot | δε pointing forward | ἄν | οὐκοῦν or οὔκουν | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | ἄν |
| D | Plato Menexenus 238b7-d5 | As part of a funeral oration, Socrates praises the ancestral constitution of Athens. | deictic δε | word order | μέν…δέ... | μέν…δέ... |
| D | Plato Protagoras 310b-d | Socrates has an unexpected visit | genitive of time or place within which | deictic iota |
| D | Plato Protagoras 310d-311d | Socrates questions Hippocrates' motives for going to see Protagoras | μῶν | ὡς | wish optative | future unreal conditional | ὡς | ὡς | ὡς |
| D | Plato Republic 3 393d3-394b2 | The start of the Iliad rewritten | past unreal conditional | μέν…δέ... |
| D | Sophocles Ajax 485-503 | Tecmessa seeks her husband's understanding | genitive of comparison | relative clauses |
| D | Sophocles Antigone 902-20 | Antigone contemplates her punishment at the hands of Creon for honouring her brother Polyneices' body | word order | attributive participle |
| D | Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus 447-462 | Teiresias boldy tells Oedipus that he will not leave before revealing a horrible truth | relative clauses | infinitive as imperative |
| D | Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 3.47 | Diodotus explains why the Athenians should not punish the demos of Mytilene for the island's rebellion from the empire. | future future conditional | τε | relative clauses | genitive of comparison | imperative | relative clauses | potential optative | circumstantial participle |
| D | Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 7.8.1-3 | Nikias asks for reinforcements, considering carefully how best to deliver his message | μή | articular infinitive | ἄν |
| D | Xenophon Memorabilia 1.1.20-2.2.2
| How could Socrates have made other people bad since he was so wise himself? | correlative | accusative and infinitive | ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν | articular infinitive |