il ea 
4 of tis “iva & 
Ereparveagcivjov rolvy vay ene emt relos tore, wou yecbaijos Agicovicy 
rae wag cvAAabes as mep overt Kryowgav vo syéloume, 
Tue crowns to which he alludes were given formerly, rere; 
the participle of the firft aorift is ufed, Lrepavwccaijav ; Ctefiphon’s 
is comparatively recent, wv, therefore he ufes.the preterperfed 
yeloape. 
So in the CEdipus Coloneus of Sophocles, the Chorus, fpeaking. 
“of the death of CEdipus, which has juft happened, fays PeCyxev, 
More examples would be tirefome; thefe may be fufficient to 
draw the attention of the reader to fimilar paffages, 
Ir muft be acknowledged that im the very next page a con- 
trary inftance occurs, The Chorus. afks, again, Finiit Vitam ?. 
Empazev ow; and the anfwer is émeefev, in the aorift*, But then 
it muft be remarked, that the preterperfe& active of the verb 
mperra is rarely ufed ; which circumffance, or fome’ defed in the 
verb, may poffibly account for this and other inftances, of re~ 
curring.to the aorift, inftead of the prope tenfe, the’ preterper=: 
fect +. Or if this method of accounting for them fhould not be 
admitted, I muft fill contend that we are'to be governed by the 
great tide of practice and majority of authorities, and are not to 
yield 
“ See another memorable inftance againft me (unlefs the firft aorifts there are to 
be conftrued as prefents) in 3d book Iliad, line 367 and 368. We mult meet them 
fairly. 
+ The fame reafons fometimes occafion a recurrence even to the fecond aorift, 
(viz. where not only the preterperfeét, but the firft aorift alfo, are wanting, or feldom 
ufed) in order to exprefs an event which has juft happened, ev g. tao. 5th Book of 
Homer’s Iliad, line 1273; but if thefe exceptions to my fyftem feldom or never 
occur but in defective verbs, it is not thereby impeached. 
