But syntax should be regarded not as a tyrant whose caprices are to be meticulously recorded, but as a willing, if highly accomplished, servant. And if in these "dead languages" syntax has for many of its votaries assumed the menacing aspect of the tyrant, then at least unnecessary terror may be allayed by the reminder that after all he has risen from the ranks and not sprung into being fully armed like Athene from the head of Zeus.
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