2 aad 
that fenfe, becaufe, though it may occur in common conver- 
fation, it can feldom be met with in the perpetuum Carmen, 
or perpetua Hiftoria; and when it does occur in dramatic 
writers it is exprefled in various ways; e.g. by the participle 
and genitive cafe, é rorouroy edrmidwv cue GeCwros, cum eo fpei 
pervenero, C&dip. Tyrann. line 781; but fcarcely ever by that 
circumlocution which Lord Monboddo defcribes. But the future 
perfeé that moft generally occurs, is that which is preceded by 
and depends upon fome adverb or conjunction, e. g. WHEN he /ball 
have “done-it, AFTER he -fhall have done it, and therefore throws’: 
itfelf into the fubjun@tive mood ; and in that mood there is no 
difficulty in finding inftances in abundance of the fecond future 
being ufed as a future perfett; e. g.* WHEN you /hall have 
come to the end of life, xwrav eg TeAog te Cyv apn, the verb is the fe- 
cond future conjun@tiive mood. Sophoc. CEdip.. Colon. line 1526. . 
So Jupiter, in the firft book of the Iliad, fays to Juno, ore xev ro 
aariles seas ew, which I apprehend is to be tranflated, when I 
Sfoall have laid my irrififlible hands on you, Hurep yap rodcuov ye Quyn, . 
22. Iliad, line 486. ovyy, tranflated by Clark, and I think truly, 
efugerit, 
* If it be faid there is no fecond future in the fubjunctive mood, that feems to me to » 
be only quibbling, for the fecond future and the fecond aorift being the fame in that 
mood, I have as good a right to callit by one name asthe other; or if it be infifted that it - 
is the fecond aorift ufed for a future, the reafoning will be the fame, fince whenever it 
is. fo.ufed it is to all intents and purpofes a future, and whatever is applicable te . 
future is then applicable to it. I am not ignorant that Mr. Dawes, in his Mifcellanea 
Critica, has totally denied the exiftence of the fecond future in any mood whatfo- 
ever, of the active and middle voices of the Greek language. _ With refpe& to the 
fubjun@ive mood, I hope the preceding obfervation is an anfwer. With refpect to 
the indicative, I proceed upon the common hypothefis of grammarians, and efpeci« 
ally of thofe whofe opinions I have undertaken to examine. 
