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in ir(ra in the prefent, in which a it mufl: be fuppofed to be the 

 charadleriftic, this termination is plainly incident to a particu- 

 lar diale(5l, and thofe futures in la;, which are faid to arife from 

 them, are a<f\vially derived from obfolete prefents : thus, t^o.^oi, 

 the future, which is faid to come from -Tr^airirco, is evidently 

 formed from the obfolete -x^uyu, which may be learned from the 

 fecond future, which is -jt^ciyai. Indeed, ■jr^a.a-iru, and ether 

 verbs of that termination, cannot have a firft future regularly 

 formed, as «-, which is improperly adopted as the charadleriftic 

 of the prefent, cannot alfo be the chara(fleriftic of the future 

 in the fame verbs. I may add, that the later Attics rejected 

 that termination in a-a-eu, and fubftituted rna, faying w^ccrraj, in- 

 ftead of ■jT^ccffffu *. I muft not omit obferving too, that a few 

 verbs occur which terminate in -^lo and |ai, in the prefent, in 

 which (T may be fuppofed the charadleriftic of that tenfe. But 

 thefe ieem to be futures fubftituted in place of certain obfolete 

 prefents from which they are derived, and whofe meaning they 

 have aifumed. I know not that there are any more of them 

 than the following, 'i-^u, coqiio ; o^ct^a, mordeo i olXi^n), opitulors 

 uv^at, augeo. At any rate, fo few exceptions, and thofe too of 

 fuch a queftionable fliape, can have no efFedl againft a general 

 rule. The confequence, however, is, that fuch verbs, by ha- 

 ving a <r in their prefent, muft be defective ; for there is no 

 proper way of diftinguiftiing their firft future, the <r already be- 

 ing employed as the charadleriftic of the prefent. 



3. 2irMA never is the charadleriftic of liquid verbs, 

 the liquid of the prefent always remaining in the future, 

 and fome other change being employed to mark this laft 

 tenfe, fuch as the fhortening of the penult, if it be long, 

 and the circumfledlion of the final a f . The reafon is, the 

 analogy of the Greek tongue does not permit a liquid to pre- 

 cede <r, except, fometimes in the Doric dialed, as, l^m, ex- 



cito, 



* Vide Lennep in Analogiam L. Gr. p. j^i S^> ^^' 

 \ See Moor EUmenta L. Gr. p. 128. 



