Language is speaking. It is my wish to convert as many colleagues and students as possible away from conceiving of language as a matter to be grasped with the eye fixed on letters and through abstract imagination, to assimilating it by speaking and hearing. In this way, and particularly by memorizing many impressive quotations, they will be imbued, so to speak, with the language.I see an error (id., p. 39): For πυθ' in the second line read ποθ'. This error doesn't occur in the German edition — Griechischer Lehrgang, Bd. I (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983), p. 27:
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Language Is Speaking
Günther Zuntz (1902-1992), Greek: A Course in Classical and Post-Classical Greek Grammar from Original Texts, ed. Stanley E. Porter, Vol. I (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994), p. 20:

