Greekless

An indispensible edition of the fragments, with commentary in English but no translation (not for the Greekless reader).

Speusippus Dancy, Russell 2003

Like so many Greekless Americans with pretensions, he thinks that the word means a liking for boys by men with buggery on their mind.

Mark Twain's Reputation Cardwell, Guy 1996

If it does, revoke, O student, your shrill _eheu_ for the Greekless and untrousered savage of the canoe, suppress your feelings, and go steadily into rhabdomancy with several divining-rods, in search of the Pierian spring which must surely exist somewhere among the guttural districts of the Ojibbeway tongue.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

_Parallelogram_ again can be explained to a Greekless person, but it will be far better understood by one who sees in it the two words παραλληλος {parallêlos} and γραμμη {grammê} and realizes that it is a short way of expressing that the figure in question is contained by parallel lines; and we shall best understand the word _parallel_ itself if we see in it the statement of the fact that the two straight lines so described go _alongside one another_, παρ 'αλληλας {par' allêlas}, all the way.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

The important question raised, but not fully answered, by The Landmark Herodotus is, of course, just what aids in understanding the Histories are most important for that not-quite-mythic figure, the intelligent — but Greekless and largely ahistorical — general reader. [

The Great Marathon Man Green, Peter 2008