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firft aorift. Thus, in the beginning of the Cyropedia, where 
Xenophon refle&ts how many democracies have been * reduced, 
and how many oligarchies fubverted, cafes frequent in human 
affairs, he ufes the firft aorift; fo in the beginning of the Me- 
morables, Xenophon expreffes his frequent furprife at the errors 
re{pecting Socrates, J have often wondered, in the firft aorift; fo 
in the example above-mentioned, Neftor, wifhing to exprefs that 
he often converfed with men much fuperior to thofe of the 
prefent day, fays apayra; fo in fimiles where the comparifon is 
made with fomething frequently occurring, the firft aorift is 
generally ufed. E.g. the fimile ufed by Demofthenes, de Cor. 
fec. 57. “as if wef fhould blame the mariner who has prepared, 
&c. &c:’ is expreffed throughout in this tenfe. We may obferve 
that in thefe and fimilar cafes, we {peak of no particular time at 
which the a€tion happened, but only of an a@ion which has often 
paft, without determining any precife time. The fecond aorift, 
therefore, which generally refers to a particular time, is, I believe, 
feldom if ever ufed to denote a frequentative ; although Lord 
Monboddo has affigned this office to it, as well as to the firft, 
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