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The future affirmative, tlje first aorist,tlje imperative and 

 the present of tlic personal mood, arc allied tenses because 

 they are of the same termination ; as e,aief, a^i^et, d,eBetf 

 se9et; wherefore, from the future six others are thus derived, 

 as the first aorist changes e into « short; but the personal 

 mood into a long or u dipthong, resolvable into ae or at.— 

 But the imperative is formed from the second future or the 

 first aorist by taking an-ay the increment, and changing, 

 for the most part, c/i into s. Thus from achk^et, or, ejiie- 

 iet, is made stk-t. 



The future negative is twofold, the one which is the 

 same as the perfect indicative ; this is the negative before 

 which is put the negative particle staute ; as statite mjike- 

 tati. The other, which is formed from the present, by 

 taking the augment and adding some of the particles 

 denoting emotion, namely, nde^ he, che, xe, se, and ^e ; 

 as tae^eHc iande—l will not rub ; or rather, te,tQe Uude. 



Btit if the negative particles te, or stante be omitted, it 

 will become the future of continuation, both in the indic- 

 ative, as e,eM'inde, and in the imperative, soQcQcmde— 

 continue to pound. 



From this negative future is formed the personal nega- 

 live mood by the addition of nd, or ?/n to the end of it, 

 which is the same ; as te,iMu^ndmd. 



Alt verbs want the j)articiples, supines, and gerunds, 

 which are thus 8upi)lied : 



The infinitive sujtplifs the place of— first, the past par- 

 ticiple, as ai:hondc—{\\Q thing liappcned ; whence ^acfion- 

 din neti, c/ic/i on dik . 



Secondly— It supplies sometimes the signification by the 

 addition of the vowel e, or the syllabic Ar ; lu, 



a 



