490 ON THE ANALOGY IN THE FORMATION OF SOME 



into an expression of present time, in the sense in which pre- 

 senttime is generally understood. I shall note the places of 

 occurrence, that any person may, if he chuses, examine them, 

 and judge for himself. They are these : Hesiod. Op. et Dies, 

 V. 477. ; II. «. 240. ; ^. 363, 502. ; x. 182. ; o. 505. ; 4. 47. ; 

 a». 728. Od. I 515. ; 6. 198. ; k. 276. 



'l^ofA,a.i, the Future of ixa, then, must be decidedly excluded 

 from the catalogue of new Presnts, devised by the Greek Scho- 

 liasts to account for the supposed Imperfects, so frequent in 

 Homer. And yet a new Present <fiw, is equally necessary in 

 this, as in any other verb of the kind, to account for <fov, thetf 

 came, the past tense, formed upon the analogy of the first Fu- 

 ture ; which, though not noticed either by Dr Clarke, or by 

 Heyne', is no less frequent in Homer than the Future itself. 

 Thus, 



*A>\' OTS d>] T^oi>iv IHON, TOTKyM n piovre. 11. i. 113. 

 At quandojam Trojam \EHERV¥iT,fluviosque labentes. 



See also, //. y,. 470. ; |. 433. ; <p. 1. ; ^. 692. Od. 7. 5, 31, 495.; 

 5. 1. ; I. 194. Hymn, in Apoll. 411. 438. 230. 278. 



Nor is there a single unequivocal example of the 1st Aorist 

 of this verb to be found in the poems either of Homer or of 

 Hesiod, except one, viz. <|«?, which occurs in the Hymn to 

 Apollo, v. 223. In that same Hymn, however, there are no 

 fewer than four examples of the form in ~ov (<|ok), and ano- 

 ther still in the Hymn to Mercury, v. 398. 



This instance of J|at, so frequent in Homer, may therefore 

 be fairly admitted to be, in the language of the celebrated Ba- 

 con, an instantia crucis, clearly pointing out the true method 

 of accounting for all the other Homeric Forms of the same de- 

 scription. If so, there will be no longer any necessity for the 



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