before final letter.)
ος Genitive. ων
ι Dative. σι(ν)
ν or α (naked stem.) Accusative. ας α
(like Nom. or Neut.) (naked stem.) Vocative. ες α

_Dual._ Nom., Acc., Voc., ε; Gen., Dat., οιν.

§ 33. The Nom. sing. is so often changed by the euphonic rules that
the stem of the noun is best seen in the Gen. Nouns in ις, υς, and
ευς take the (Attic) Gen. εως, (ω regarded as _short_.)
The α of the Acc. sing. is usually after a consonant. Many
irregularities and some anomalies occur, which may generally be
learned from the lexicon.


ADJECTIVES.

§ 34. These are _declined_ like nouns, having sometimes three
sets of terminations for the respective genders, sometimes two, (masc.
and fem. alike,) rarely but one, (all genders alike.) The masc. and
neut. are always of the same declension, (second or third,) and the
fem., when different, always of the first. _Participles_ are
declined like adjectives.

§ 35. Adjectives are _compared_ either by using an adverb
expressive of degree, or, more regularly, by adding to the stem of the
positive the syllables ότερος or ίων for the comparative, and
ότατος or ιστος for the superlative. Some euphonic changes
occur in making these additions, which then take the regular