482 ON THE ANALOGY IN THE FORMATION OF SOME 



a double Preterite, as well as a double Future and Aorist 

 Thus, 



irvxLxx, TirvQu 1. Pret. 



rvzru 



t TVKCO 



STUKOV TSTVKCl 2. Pl'et. 



It is no objection to this account, that the second Preterite 

 may sometimes be found in a middle signification ; for active 

 verbs in all languages are sometimes used as middle, the reci- 

 procal pronoun being conceived, though not expressed. Thus 

 ^ru(3oc,}ka in Greek, accingo in Latin, prepare in English : 

 omnes accingunt operi, — they all prepare (themselves) for the 

 work. 



2. o in the second Preterite, or Preterite middle, uniformly 

 arises from e in the Present, and from nothing else. 



Xzyu, "Kzhoya. — /3XeT<y, (Se^XoTa- 



That <p9&pw, pugu, »yapu, and other such verbs having a li- 

 quid before <y, make \<p6oga,, ptpopu, hyopct,, and not fiepoipu, 

 l<p0oipct, Tiyotgu, &c. is no exception from the rule. For all 

 such verbs probably had of old not s<, but g only, in the pe- 

 nult. Thus <pQet£u seems to have been of old (pQzppu, whence 

 the old or iEolic Future <p9ep<ra. So p,&gv was peppu, whence 

 pzpos pars ; and the old or iEolic form kyippu is still to be 

 found. In like manner, /3g/3oXa seems, as Dr Moor has ob- 

 served, to be formed, not from (BctXha, but from the old verb 

 fieXXu, whence fishos jaculum. 



3. Although the 1st Preterite, or Perfect active, generally 

 follows the analogy of the 1st Future, yet it sometimes, too, 

 observes that of the 2d. Thus, 



