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if eatue 
proceed to produce fome examples tending to fhew how far this 
fuppofition correfponds with experience. 
Wuewn Archimede rufhes out of the bath, after making his 
celebrated difcovery, he cries out eupyxe, becaufe he had juft at 
that moment found out and folved the difficulty. But when 
Neftor fpeaks of ancient days and ancient heroes with whom he 
had been converfant, he fpeaks in the aorift, dgcfoow nemep uliv 
Avdpacw «pidyse. 1 Lib. Homer, line 260 and 261. 
Wuen Demofthenes fuppofes the queftion rebvyne Dircrzos ; it 
follows plainly that if the fact had been fo, and any perfon had 
come in fuddenly to announce it, he would have faid refmxe. But 
when Chryfes, in the firft Iliad, line 40, alludes to actions by him 
formerly and frequently performed, he ufes the aorift, 7f Z have 
ever crowned your altars or burnt uittims, epee and exo. 
When /Efchines concludes his oration, with calling Heaven to 
witnefs as to his own efforts in the progrefs of it, he ufes the pre- 
terperfet, becaufe thofe efforts had juft then been made, CeConiyna 
ua eigmrice. So Demofthenes, in multiplied allufions to the calumnies 
juft beforé thrown out againft him by Aifchines, ufes the preter- 
perfe, PeCraconunxe mepe eue. Nor perhaps is it an objection that 
Demofthenes, in the fame oration, fpeaking to the Athenians of 
his own life and adminiftration (much of which had long fince 
elapfed), fays — and wemodrevpa:; becaufe as he was Still con- 
tinuing to live among them, and /7// to adminifter their public 
affairs, he {poke of matters not entirely paft. 
So Demofthenes, in the 36th feGion of the fame oration for the 
crown, fays, 
Tregavaccay|ww 
