Note 9 — TRICOUPI AND ALISON ON THE GREEK REVOLUTION.[1][2]

The modern Greek has lost not a whit of the fine rich flexibility which has made the ancient dialect such a convenient organ for our scientific terminology. The word for Lazaretto used here is λοιμοκαθαρτήριον; and scores of such words are seen on the signboards of the streets of Athens at the present hour.