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Gottlieb Christian Crusius : A Complete Greek and English Lexicon for the Poems of Homer and the Homeridae: Illustrating the Domestic, Religious, Political, and Military Condition of the Heroic Age, and Explaining the Most Difficult Passages

'He handed me over Crusius' Lexicon and, having told me to go through again as much as I could of what he had done, left the room. It seems an odd method of teaching, but it worked. At first I could travel only a very short way along the trail he had blazed, but every day I could travel further... I was beginning to think in Greek.That is the great Rubicon to cross in learning any language.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis      Print: Book

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