Excerpt from The Infinitive in Polybius Compared With the Infinitive in Biblical Greek The purpose of this study is to make a thorough investigation of Polybius' use of the infinitive and compare the results thus Obtained with the use of the infinitive in biblical Greek, and yet not with the whole Of biblical Greek as represented in the Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New Testament, but with certain selected books. Polybius, a native Greek who lived during the second century B. C., wrote his history in forty books in the common dialect, which was then the language, not only of Greece, but of all the East. And he wrote, not in a highly refined style, but as an educated man of affairs might write of events in which he was interested from personal experience. It was just because of the widespread use of Greek in the East that it became necessary to have a translation of the Hebrew sacred writings into Greek for the use of the Hellenistic Jews, and that new writings were composed in that language and not in Hebrew. The purpose, then, is to compare the use of the infinitive in Polybius with its use in two books (genesis and Wisdom of Sirach) which were translated from Hebrew, and in two books (ii and IV Maccabees) which were originally written in Greek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.