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This tag is for questions concerning the meaning and usage of individual words or a few words in conjunction with each other.

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How do I say 'There is always a reason for a drink'?

Translating as semper est bibendum could make a recognizable variant on Horace's famous nunc est bibendum, "now is the time to drink" (Ode 1.37).
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Counting to ten in Homeric Greek

Admittedly this isn't Homer, but it might still be useful. A TLG search (surprisingly) comes up with only two relevant sentences, both from Plato: Theaetetus 204b-c has the numbers up to six in the ne …
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Tables of Greek expressions for time, place, and logic

Wiktionary has a useful table of correlatives. There is also one in Mastronarde's textbook Attic Greek pp. 319-320.
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Are there minimal pairs between the acute and circumflex accent?

Two examples come to mind: λῦσαι (aorist masculine imperative 2nd person singular, or aorist active infinitive, of λύω) contrasts with λύσαι (aorist active optative 3rd person singular of the same ve …
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