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Bud Grossmann’s
Words of the Week
for the Week of
March 4, 2007
Previously unpublished poem.
© 2007 by Bud Grossmann.
All Rights Reserved.


Greek Student & Friend, 1967
  Greek Student & Friend, 1967
© 1967 by Bud Grossmann

CIRCUMFLEXIBLE CIRCUMLOCUTION
(Too Acute, Four Words)

A word bearing the acute upon the ultima is known as an oxytone, one with the acute upon the penult as a paroxytone, one with the acute upon the antepenult as a proparoxytone. One which bears the circumflex upon the ultima is called a perispomenon, one with the circumflex upon the penult is a properispomenon. These terms, though formidable, will save much laborious periphrasis.
                                              Chase & Phillips
                                              Introduction to Greek

In Biblical Greek 101 at California Concordia College
in the fall of 1967, it was not the periphrasis
I found labially laborious but forming those
formidable terms, those several sorts of oxytones
and the pair of perispomenons. No sooner had I
read them than I sort of accententally forgot them,
and yet I somehow passed the course.

The melodious final quoted sentence, however, has
for two score years remained uselessly in my memory,
though I never opened the book again.


The professors’ point I praise.
Proclaiming principles
(or presenting poetry)
periphrastically
potentially produces
problems, I’ll admit.
Perhaps, then, I shall quit.

 ♦


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