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quently indeed exprefled by one word, in the infinitive mood ; 
for inftance, the prayer of Agamemnon, in the fecond book of 
Homer *, line 412. 
) 
Zev nveise, peyist, nerawees, ouiDe pe veeka, 
M4 mel tr yeAsov uve, Kas Eh uvedag Erbe, 
TIpiy pee Kare wpnves Cordéew TIpsctpeouo perabpov 
AiSaroev, pyar ots Os aupos Sytoro Dupe|px. 
“Exrépeov do yurava weph srferos datzas, 
Xaduw pulecrtov montes 0 aud’ avroy eraipos 
TIpyvées ev xovinow obae AaCoialo yalcy t. 
Py ae ix 
In the five laft lines of which paflage, all the verbs, which 
are fingle words, fignify the future perfect, and are fo tranflated 
by Dr. Clark. In truth, there is no difficulty in finding in- 
{tances, except in the indicative mood; and really one would 
imagine that it was that mood only that Lord Monboddo 
took into view. Now it muft be confidered that the future 
perfect of the indicative, J /hall have firicken, I fhall have fupped, 
can fcarcely offer itfelf to ufe but in dialogue or in oration. 
And this may be the reafon why it is feldom obferved in 
that 
* Let not the fun fet, before that I /ball have levelled to the ground the flaming 
palace of Priam, &c. &c. Ne prius fol occidat quam dejecero, &c. &c. fays Dr. 
Clark. 
+ See other inftances in the Iliad of Homer, 17th book, line 32; 3d book, 
line 553 2d book, line 3555 23d book, line 45, and in book 22, line 509, a firft 
future is ufed in this perfect fenfe. Demofthenes does ufe the expreflion, yypaQus 
ivopas, but not of neceflity. 
