Ch. 5a portrays the courage of young Philip, his devotion to his dog Argos, and introduces new contract verbs with stem ending in alpha.

The old contract verbs, like φιλέω,  were e-stems. And we have a new example to remind us how these work, ζητέω, seek/look for. 

It conjugates as follows:

ζητέ-ω --> ζητῶ                               ζητέ-ομεν --> ζητοῦμεν

ζητέ-εις --> ζητεῖς                           ζητέ-ετε ---> ζητεῖτε

ζητέ-ει --> ζητεῖ                              ζητέ-ουσι--> ζητοῦσι

(imperative)ζήτε-ε --> ζήτει    (infinitive) ζητέ-(ε)εν --> ζητεῖν

Now the new a-stem contracts follow the model of τιμάω as follows:

(stretch out the vowels and you can feel your way through the contractions α + ε --> ᾶ   α + ο --> ω)

τιμά-ω --> τιμῶ                               τιμά-ομεν --> τιμῶμεν

τιμά-εις--> τιμᾶις or τιμᾷς           τιμά-ετε --> τιμᾶτε

τιμά-ει -->  τιμᾷ                              τιμά-ουσι --> τιμῶσι

imperative τίμα-ε --> τίμα                infinitive τιμά-(ε)εν --> τιμᾶν

Conjugated like τιμάω in the new vocabulary are

βοάω ‘shout’ and ὁράω see. 

Homework:

1) Practice the new endings with ὁράω.

(Get it in your head; then try to write it out)

2) Then do the exercises 5β-γ on p. 57.

3) As time permits, study vocabulary and read the passage, pp.54-5.