OF THE TENSES OF THE GREEK VERB. 489 



Dr Clarke or his son adds in continuation : " Atque analoo'ia 

 " quidem haud dissimili ssepe usurpare videtur poeta verba 

 " Wo/**/, ^>i(rofx,ai, fiijirero, &c. Vide autem ad //. e. 109. ;" 

 (where, however, he reprobates the hypothesis of these new 

 Presents in — a-of^ai.) " Occurrit eadem vox (viz. oitrire) IL 

 " 7'. 103. 0. 718. et apud Theocritum, Mj/U. xxiv. 48. Porro 

 " fuerunt, teste Barnesio, qui oiiroi,Te ubique legendum statue- 

 " runt, sed nullo profectu. Nam, uti ipse annotat, occurrit 

 " apud HoMERUM ota-i in Imperativo, numero singular!, ubi isti 

 " emendationi locus nuUus est, &c. et apud Callimachum, 

 " — — <p6fe s"«%i'i'> oKTs di^((rf»,ov. Hymn, in Cer. v. 137." 



All the attempts, however, to account for these forms in 

 particular Verbs are partial and unsatisfactory. As the facts 

 to be accounted for are all similar, the true solution must be 

 general, and such as will embrace them all. Whether the me- 

 thod which I have ventured to suggest be of this description, 

 does not belong to me to determine. It possesses at least this 

 indispensable requisite, that it accounts for all the phenomena 

 in question. 



It would be tedious and tiresome to enter on a particular 

 examination of every individual verb of the kind which we are 

 considering. It may not be improper, however, to select one 

 example for the purpose of illustration. 



There are not many verbs of more frequent occurrence in 

 Homer than Ikw venio in one or other of its parts. It is 

 found in the present : 



Evhv (e Cypro) $ti nuo isv^o roY IKfl ^tifjkura, vcc^m. 



Od. p. 444. 

 and the Future <|o/Aa< occurs once in Hesiod, and ten or 

 twelve times in Homer ; and, in not one of these instances 

 can it by any sophistry be tortured into a present, or forced 



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