Greek was very much a live ... by Gilbert Murray, a British Diplomat

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“Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.”

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Name: Gilbert Murray

Nationality: British

Date of Birth: Jan 2, 1866

Date of Death: May 20, 1957

Profession: Diplomat

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