ae hae 
and proper fignification, implies that it was done a confiderable 
time fince, and the preterperfect, when ufed with'the fame ftri@- 
nefs, implies it was done very lately, or even continues to be done 
yet; that the fecond aorift is probably never ufed definitely, but 
from neceflity, viz. in defective verbs, which have no firft aorift ; 
that the firft aorift is alfo ufed as a cumulative or word of 
multitude, to exprefs an action which has been often done, and 
in other fenfes (which will occur to the attentive reader) feldom 
or never communicated to the fecond aorift; that whenever thefe 
two aorifts feem to be ufed indifferently as paft definites, there 
is a beautiful contraft intended, analogous to that which Dr. 
Gregory obferves in our language, and which he might have 
obferved in the French, between the fimple and compound preter- 
perfect; and that this is evident, becaufe the firft aorift often 
cannot be conftrued but by the help of the auxiliary verb, as 
in the inftance of wpiayow, (1 Iliad, line 260.) while the fecond 
always can be couftrued without any fuch aid; and that all thefe 
circumftances together make a wide difcrimination between thefe 
two tenfes, which Lord Monboddo conceived to have no diffe- 
rence of meaning. 
LET us proceed now very briefly to confider the two future 
tenfes of the Greek language, on which a very few obfervations 
will fuffice. 
Dr. Clark diftinguifhes between the two futures, by calling 
the firft the imperfect, and the fecond the perfect, which are thus 
by him enunciated, cewabo, I thall be fupping ; canavero, I fhall 
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