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Grammatical Papyrus: Participles is a short anonymous fragment of a Greek grammar on papyrus from Roman or late antique Egypt. It explains how passive and middle participles form their plurals from the genitive singular, by changing omicron to epsilon or upsilon to iota. It gives the paradigm of lego, including forms such as legomenou, lelegmenou, lechthesomenou and lexomenou, and turns to the feminine forms before the papyrus breaks off.
Though only a few lines survive, the fragment shows the methodical, rule-based teaching of Greek word forms in ancient schools. Such papyri are the working documents of everyday teaching, and they stand behind the grammatical tradition that is otherwise known only from medieval manuscripts.
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