Particularly of the LETTER 2ITMA. 133 



III. In the formation of the Greek verb, where a fyftem of 

 the moft beautiful kind may be traced, the lingular or peculiar 

 power of llypa is very eonfpicuous. 



1. It is always the characleriftic of the fir ft future, in verbs that 

 are not liquid, a ftation which it maintains without a rival. Thus, 

 in pure verbs, riw,bonoro, t'ktv, Xva>, folvo , Xvcr^ ri^ota, honor o,rifrritruy 

 <p'i\sa>, amo, <ptX7)<ro), wX'/igov, impleo, KXrigcoa-a' in mute verbs, tX£»&>,. 

 plico, wXixo-w, which is TXsfa>, <p&vya,fagio, <pevy<rw, which is <pev%u, 

 fig't'XjCa, irrigo, figtyjrw, which is {3gi%a>' alfo, /3A£t<v, video, /3A67r<r<y, 

 which is fixi^a, rgi/3a>, tero, rgifi<r&> } which is rgi^a, yga,<pa>> fcribo y 

 ygtt,<p<ra>) which is yga-tyw* and fo alfo in verbs ending in ru, 

 doo and du t in which the r, d, £>, are rejected before <rta of the fu- 

 ture, as has been already obferved and exemplified *. 



2. It is never the proper characteriftic letter of the prefent 

 tenfe, and therefore in that refpect alfo it is lingular. There 

 are indeed a great many verbs which end in £ar and as it has 

 been faid that £ is compofed of £?, &c. it may be fuppofed that <r is 

 here the characleriftic of the prefent. But as in fome verbs, 

 fuch as rvvTc* and piwra, the former of the two confonants, to 

 wit *, is reckoned the characleriftie ; fo in fuch verbs as <Pga>2c* 

 and voy/t£a, 5 perhaps is the characleriftic, as if they were 

 fyabarw and vofii&<r4> "f. With refpect to thofe verbs which end 



in 



* P. 130. It is to be remarked, that in pure and mute verbs, the <r, which is the cha- 

 ra&eriftic of the firft future aftive, is alfo that of the firft aorift adiive, the firft future, 

 and firft aorift middle \ which it is needlefs to exemplify, as it is quite familiar, even to 

 young Scholars. 



\ In the Doric dialeft, they are <p%u<r$u and vopie-frv. E, however, is certainly the cha- 

 ra&eriftic of their firft future, where ?, £, $, are always thrown away. In this cafe, the 

 propriety of throwing out the S is apparent ; for, if it were retained, <pg*'£«/ would have 

 in the firft future (pe.a^.-a, which is the fame with <$£*&•«-*>• and topi^u would have vofti^a-u, 

 which is the fame with voui&j-ra, where it is necefTary alfo to throw away the <r which came 

 from the prefent tenfe, on account of the <r which was ailumed by the formation as the 

 charadleriftx of the future, and therefore the futures actually are <p £*<?<» and taplw. See 

 this hinted at above, p. 127. note %. See likewife, Moor Elementa Ling. fir. 



