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Construction	Sentence	Passage
accusative absolute	108	Euripides Children of Heracles 501-22
accusative and infinitive	8	Xenophon Memorabilia 1.1.20-2.2.2
	69	Euripides Bacchae 215-234
	75	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	85	Plato Charmides 159 a-c
	152	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	193	Demosthenes Speeches 18.177-9
	229	Lysias Speeches 24.4-6
	240	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
	241	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
	243	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
	258	Homer Odyssey 3.75-91
accusative of respect	261	Aristophanes Peace 215-233
article as pronoun	493	Homer Iliad 16.439-457
articular infinitive	1	Lysias Speeches 1.1-5
	11	Demosthenes On the Peace 5.1-2
	13	Xenophon Hiero 6.1-4
	18	Xenophon Hiero 6.1-4
	21	Xenophon Memorabilia 1.1.20-2.2.2
	39	Xenophon Hiero 6.1-4
	49	Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 7.8.1-3
	154	Plato Gorgias 483a7-c6
	239	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	275	Isocrates Letters 3 (Nicocles) 14-16
	284	Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1144-1162
	309	Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.54-6
	313	Demosthenes Third Phillippic 9.53
attributive participle	157	Plato Gorgias 483a7-c6
	190	Demosthenes Third Phillippic 9.53
	207	Herodotus Histories 4.97
	237	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	239	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	304	Sophocles Antigone 902-20
circumstantial participle	2	Lysias Speeches 24.21-23
	52	Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.6-9
	156	Plato Gorgias 483a7-c6
	190	Demosthenes Third Phillippic 9.53
	207	Herodotus Histories 4.97
	227	Lysias Speeches 13.3-6
	258	Homer Odyssey 3.75-91
	307	Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.54-6
	332	Lysias Speeches 1.23-25
	488	Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 3.47
	513	Herodotus Histories 2.120
cognate accusative	155	Plato Gorgias 483a7-c6
connecting relative	203	Sophocles Oedipus Coloneus 1291-1307
	311	Demosthenes Third Phillippic 9.53
correlatives	1	Lysias Speeches 1.1-5
	2	Lysias Speeches 24.21-23
	4	Isocrates To Demonicus 1.13-15
	8	Xenophon Memorabilia 1.1.20-2.2.2
	10	Isocrates To Demonicus 1.13-15
	33	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
	36	Plato Euthydemus 273c1-e2
	70	Euripides Bacchae 215-234
	75	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	138	Plato Protagoras 319b-c
	185	Plato Protagoras 334c7-335a3
	219	Herodotus Histories 4.97
	228	Lysias Speeches 13.3-6
crasis	54	Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 1056-1073
	79	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	109	Euripides Children of Heracles 501-22
	110	Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 1-18
	123	Aeschylus Eumenides 454-469
	139	Plato Protagoras 319b-c
	230	Sophocles Antigone 497-511
	515	Euripides Phoenissae 452-470
dative of similarity	106	Xenophon Hiero 6.1-4
dative of time when or place at which	395	Homer Odyssey 7 244-58
deictic iota	191	Plato Protagoras 310b-d
	227	Lysias Speeches 13.3-6
	307	Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.54-6
deictic δε	62	Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.9-10
	97	Euripides Electra 341-357
	101	Homer Odyssey 3 79-97
	111	Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 1-18
	204	Plato Menexenus 238b7-d5
dual	180	Plato Gorgias 524b2-d4
	278	Plato Euthydemus 273c1-e2
ellipsis	541	Plato Ion 540d5-541a6
enclitic τις with an accent	19	Plato Hippias Minor 364 c-e
epic τε	124	Homer Iliad 16.2-19
ethic dative	54	Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 1056-1073
exclamatory relative	115	Aeschylus Persians 447-65
	187	Sophocles Antigone 497-511
	202	Homer Iliad 16.439-457
fear clause with subjunctive	221	Herodotus Histories 4.97
	312	Demosthenes Third Phillippic 9.53
future future conditional	166	Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 3.47
future participle expressing purpose	121	Homer Odyssey 1 80-95
	151	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	159	Homer Odyssey 15 265-281
	242	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
future real conditional	78	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	109	Euripides Children of Heracles 501-22
	237	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	251	Euripides Bacchae 43-61
future unreal conditional	79	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	211	Sophocles Antigone 497-511
	271	Plato Protagoras 310d-311d
	333	Lysias Speeches 1.1-5
	524	Homer Iliad 6.263-285
genitive absolute	11	Demosthenes On the Peace 5.1-2
	61	Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.9-10
	64	Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.9-10
	75	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	99	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
	126	Antiphon On the murder of Herodes 5.26-27
	153	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	207	Herodotus Histories 4.97
	232	Demosthenes Speeches 18.177-9
	267	Herodotus Histories 2.118
	331	Lysias Speeches 1.23-25
genitive of comparison	147	Euripides Alcestis 935-953
	201	Sophocles Ajax 485-503
	488	Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 3.47
genitive of hearing	195	Lysias Speeches 13.3-6
genitive of time or place within which	191	Plato Protagoras 310b-d
	218	Herodotus Histories 4.97
	261	Aristophanes Peace 215-233
genitive of touch after ἅπτομαι	148	Euripides Alcestis 935-953
	149	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
gerundive	262	Aristophanes Peace 215-233
imperative	488	Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 3.47
	517	Euripides Phoenissae 452-470
indefinite question words	221	Herodotus Histories 4.97
indirect command	242	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
	329	Lysias Speeches 1.23-25
indirect question	110	Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 1-18
	241	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
	243	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
infinitive as imperative	510	Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus 447-462
infinitives	19	Plato Hippias Minor 364 c-e
	98	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
	108	Euripides Children of Heracles 501-22
	118	Euripides Andromache 624-44
	235	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	296	Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1144-1162
	536	Homer Iliad 1.23-42
mixed conditional	29	Plato Hippias Minor 364 c-e
	262	Aristophanes Peace 215-233
negative	150	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	151	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	393	Homer Odyssey 16 70-86
optative in historic indefinite clause	150	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
optative in indirect speech	62	Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.9-10
	87	Plato Charmides 159 a-c
	240	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
participle in indirect statement after verbs of perceiving	20	Demosthenes On the Peace 5.1-2
past unreal conditional	43	Plato Republic 3 393d3-394b2
	165	Andocides On the Peace 17-19
	341	Lysias Speeches 1.37-40
	513	Herodotus Histories 2.120
possessive dative	158	Homer Odyssey 15 265-281
potential indicative	194	Sophocles Antigone 497-511
potential optative	243	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
	488	Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 3.47
present general conditional	45	Isocrates Letters 3 (Nicocles) 14-16
	139	Plato Protagoras 319b-c
present general relative clause	245	Homer Odyssey 1.345-359
present general temporal clause	76	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	518	Euripides Phoenissae 452-470
present real conditional	29	Plato Hippias Minor 364 c-e
	241	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
	394	Homer Odyssey 16 70-86
	507	Lysias Speeches 14.1-2
present unreal conditional	238	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	541	Plato Ion 540d5-541a6
primary purpose clause	56	Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 1056-1073
	110	Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 1-18
	124	Homer Iliad 16.2-19
	195	Lysias Speeches 13.3-6
	393	Homer Odyssey 16 70-86
	539	Homer Iliad 1.23-42
prohibition	171	Euripides Helen 557-574
	237	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	239	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	538	Homer Iliad 1.23-42
pronouns	87	Plato Charmides 159 a-c
	100	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
question	109	Euripides Children of Heracles 501-22
	130	Aristophanes Clouds 1043-57
	131	Xenophon Economics 3.10-12
	132	Aristophanes Clouds 1043-57
	244	Homer Odyssey 1.345-359
relative clause misbehaving	27	Euripides Alcestis 779-793
relative clauses	98	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
	103	Homer Odyssey 3 79-97
	123	Aeschylus Eumenides 454-469
	166	Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 3.47
	195	Lysias Speeches 13.3-6
	212	Sophocles Ajax 485-503
	236	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	244	Homer Odyssey 1.345-359
	307	Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.54-6
	308	Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.54-6
	345	Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.4-6
	488	Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 3.47
	508	Lysias Speeches 14.1-2
	509	Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus 447-462
result clause with indicative	151	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	152	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	312	Demosthenes Third Phillippic 9.53
	507	Lysias Speeches 14.1-2
	514	Herodotus Histories 2.120
result clause with infinitive	5	Xenophon Economics 3.10-12
	99	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
	100	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
	370	Lysias Speeches 1.1-5
secondary purpose clause	514	Herodotus Histories 2.120
secondary purpose clause with the subjunctive	150	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	151	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	153	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	368	Lysias Speeches 1.1-5
	514	Herodotus Histories 2.120
stichomythia	171	Euripides Helen 557-574
supplementary participle	62	Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.9-10
	69	Euripides Bacchae 215-234
	306	Plato Ion 540d5-541a6
third person imperative	53	Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 1056-1073
	63	Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.9-10
tmesis	537	Homer Iliad 1.23-42
wish optative	187	Sophocles Antigone 497-511
	271	Plato Protagoras 310d-311d
	523	Homer Iliad 6.263-285
word order	130	Aristophanes Clouds 1043-57
	204	Plato Menexenus 238b7-d5
	236	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	276	Antiphon On the murder of Herodes 5.26-27
	285	Demosthenes Speeches 18.177-9
	303	Sophocles Antigone 902-20
ἀλλά	27	Euripides Alcestis 779-793
	97	Euripides Electra 341-357
	241	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
ἄν	37	Plato Lysis 207e1-208b1
	41	Plato Lysis 207e1-208b1
	49	Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 7.8.1-3
	110	Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 1-18
ἄρα	306	Plato Ion 540d5-541a6
γάρ	27	Euripides Alcestis 779-793
	29	Plato Hippias Minor 364 c-e
	97	Euripides Electra 341-357
	119	Homer Odyssey 2 6-20
	231	Sophocles Antigone 497-511
	237	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	542	Plato Hippias Minor 364 c-e
	544	Euripides Electra 341-357
γε	45	Isocrates Letters 3 (Nicocles) 14-16
	220	Herodotus Histories 4.97
	239	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	242	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
	513	Herodotus Histories 2.120
	524	Homer Iliad 6.263-285
γοῦν	262	Aristophanes Peace 215-233
δε pointing forward	19	Plato Hippias Minor 364 c-e
	35	Plato Lysis 207e1-208b1
	50	Plato Gorgias 523a1-c1
	76	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	188	Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.4-6
	267	Herodotus Histories 2.118
δεῖ	193	Demosthenes Speeches 18.177-9
	195	Lysias Speeches 13.3-6
δῆτα	132	Aristophanes Clouds 1043-57
ἐαν as 'in the hope that'	102	Homer Odyssey 3 79-97
	121	Homer Odyssey 1 80-95
	258	Homer Odyssey 3.75-91
ἐάν as ἄν or ἤν	9	Xenophon Memorabilia 1.1.20-2.2.2
	41	Plato Lysis 207e1-208b1
	78	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	156	Plato Gorgias 483a7-c6
	220	Herodotus Histories 4.97
	277	Plato Euthydemus 273c1-e2
	295	Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1144-1162
εἰ as whether	207	Herodotus Histories 4.97
εἴ τι ἄλλο	39	Xenophon Hiero 6.1-4
	51	Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.6-9
εἴτε	85	Plato Charmides 159 a-c
ἵνα with indicative	213	Euripides Andromache 1-6, 8-19
καί as also/too	139	Plato Protagoras 319b-c
	149	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	237	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	306	Plato Ion 540d5-541a6
	312	Demosthenes Third Phillippic 9.53
καί…καί	243	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
κατά distributive	52	Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.6-9
	279	Demosthenes Third Philippic 9.25–27
μέλλω	195	Lysias Speeches 13.3-6
μέν…δέ...	3	Lysias Speeches 24.21-23
	5	Xenophon Economics 3.10-12
	11	Demosthenes On the Peace 5.1-2
	12	Xenophon Hiero 6.1-4
	15	Isocrates To Demonicus 1.13-15
	16	Isocrates To Demonicus 1.13-15
	17	Xenophon Economics 3.10-12
	29	Plato Hippias Minor 364 c-e
	30	Euripides Electra 341-357
	33	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
	38	Demosthenes On the Peace 5.1-2
	39	Xenophon Hiero 6.1-4
	44	Plato Republic 3 393d3-394b2
	45	Isocrates Letters 3 (Nicocles) 14-16
	50	Plato Gorgias 523a1-c1
	64	Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.9-10
	70	Euripides Bacchae 215-234
	77	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	79	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	92	Homer Odyssey 16 70-86
	98	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
	103	Homer Odyssey 3 79-97
	108	Euripides Children of Heracles 501-22
	126	Antiphon On the murder of Herodes 5.26-27
	128	Demosthenes Third Philippic 9.25–27
	150	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	154	Plato Gorgias 483a7-c6
	164	Andocides On the Peace 17-19
	215	Plato Menexenus 238b7-d5
	216	Plato Menexenus 238b7-d5
	232	Demosthenes Speeches 18.177-9
	235	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
	276	Antiphon On the murder of Herodes 5.26-27
	309	Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.54-6
	330	Lysias Speeches 1.23-25
	332	Lysias Speeches 1.23-25
	512	Lysias Speeches 19.1-3
	545	Plato Ion 532e7-533b5
μή	49	Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 7.8.1-3
	116	Euripides Andromache 624-44
	117	Euripides Andromache 624-44
	492	Homer Iliad 16.439-457
	522	Homer Iliad 6.263-285
	538	Homer Iliad 1.23-42
μή οὐ	538	Homer Iliad 1.23-42
μῶν	144	Euripides Electra 503-519
	192	Plato Protagoras 310d-311d
ὁστις	55	Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 1056-1073
	56	Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 1056-1073
	63	Xenophon Anabasis 3.2.9-10
	195	Lysias Speeches 13.3-6
	306	Plato Ion 540d5-541a6
ὄτι in direct speech	242	Xenophon Anabasis 4.8
οὐκοῦν or οὔκουν	30	Euripides Electra 341-357
	40	Plato Lysis 207e1-208b1
	77	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	294	Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1144-1162
οὔτε…οὔτε	238	Demosthenes Speeches 57.34-6
ὄφρα	540	Homer Iliad 1.498-516
πότερον or πότερα	86	Plato Charmides 159 a-c
	185	Plato Protagoras 334c7-335a3
που	30	Euripides Electra 341-357
	146	Euripides Electra 503-519
πρίν	100	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
	107	Euripides Children of Heracles 501-22
	190	Demosthenes Third Phillippic 9.53
τε	54	Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris 1056-1073
	145	Euripides Electra 503-519
	166	Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 3.47
	230	Sophocles Antigone 497-511
	516	Euripides Phoenissae 452-470
	543	Homer Iliad 1.172-192
	545	Plato Ion 532e7-533b5
τις	76	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	78	Euripides Hecuba 303-320
	114	Aeschylus Persians 447-65
	120	Homer Odyssey 7 244-58
τος sufix	137	Plato Protagoras 319b-c
τυγχάνω	184	Plato Protagoras 334c7-335a3
ὡς	111	Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 1-18
	123	Aeschylus Eumenides 454-469
	151	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	271	Plato Protagoras 310d-311d
	272	Plato Protagoras 310d-311d
	273	Plato Protagoras 310d-311d
	274	Plato Protagoras 310d-311d
	367	Lysias Speeches 1.1-5
ὥστε	5	Xenophon Economics 3.10-12
	99	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
	100	Lysias Speeches 3.5-7
	151	Lysias Speeches 1.9-11
	312	Demosthenes Third Phillippic 9.53
	370	Lysias Speeches 1.1-5

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