Perfect for what it is!
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I gave this pocket size dictionary a rating of ten because in its category that what it is. A Yugo gets a rating of ten when measured up against other inexpensive, pocketsize cars for beginners. It would be of little use to compare it to a Ferrari or a Lamborghini. In the same manner it would be of little use to compare this pocketsize, handy, inexpensive, dictionary to the Liddel-Scott-Jones Lexicon. I believe the first paragraph of the preface sums it up, and I quote it here now:
"The Pocket-Dictionary is not intended to compete with any of the larger Lexicons, but as it contains all the words which appear in the authors commonly read in schools, and also those of the Greek New Testament, it will perhaps prove useful to beginners, and may also lend occaisonal service to more advanced students when they are unable, or disinclined, to look up words in a more extensive work. At any rate it has the advantage of cheapness."
I find it useful in my work translating Appian, and will usually look up a word it in before using the LSJ Lexicon.
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