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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7843689, member: 19463&quot;]It has been 53 years since my last Greek class but I (mis)read legends ending in ON as singular so possibly &#039;of the city&#039; and those with the plural WN (or ΩN depending on which form of omega was current then and there) as meaning &#039;of the people of the city&#039;.&nbsp; Many of you when to school and later worked in the field related to your studies.&nbsp; I studied Classical Languages and Literature and went in the Army at the suggestion of my draft board.&nbsp; You have no idea how rarely the Army asked me about anything ancient. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> My only Greek since 1968 has been on coins. One thing I do remember is that the language had a number of dialects and changed over the centuries.&nbsp; My favorite Greek professor had zero use for any Greek after about 300 BC and less than zero for the Greek of the New Testament.&nbsp; I really have no idea what the genitive plural of Syracuse or Syracusans was.&nbsp; I was hoping we had a member here with more experience and better memory.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, &#039;Greek to me&#039; refers to the idea that Greek is a hard language.&nbsp; I dropped a course in Egyptian Hieroglyphics the first week.&nbsp; Greek was not as easy as Latin but compared to Egyptian....... </p><p>A student at my school two years ahead of me did better with hieroglyphics and actually made it his life&#039;s work (Minspeak):</p><p><a href="https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/bruce-baker-1943-2020-invented-minspeak-for-nonverbal-peoples-aac-speech-devices/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/bruce-baker-1943-2020-invented-minspeak-for-nonverbal-peoples-aac-speech-devices/" rel="nofollow">https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/bruce-baker-1943-2020-invented-minspeak-for-nonverbal-peoples-aac-speech-devices/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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