OF THE TENSES OF THE GREEK VERB. 483 



" i { not ivrzhxa. from <rrs\oi 1. Fut. 



IreXXa makes < M 



(. but so-tccXkcx, from <rraX&> 2. ± ut. 



In the same manner, rg<v<y, xrstm, zetgu, (rmigot), &c. &c. 



4. On the other hand, although the 2d Preterite, or Perfect 

 middle, generally follows the analogy of the 2d Future, yet it 

 sometimes, too, observes that of the 1st. Thus, 



^ i J not £<rr;jXa from ffra'ku 2. Fut. 



t but eo-ToXa from vrihu 1. Fut. 



In the same manner, rgfiw, strum, zetga, wii^a, &c. 



Nay, from g in the penult, there often arises o in the 1st 

 Preterite, or Perfect active. Thus, ^g^o^pa, AgXo^a, xezXo(pu, 

 dtdoisca, from vreftwoj, Xeyoj, xXznra, dzida, &C. And this seems 

 of old to have been still more frequent, and to have extended 

 also to the Passive voice. Thus, pt,ep,og9a,i, irivogdai, in the old, 

 or iEolic dialect from peppu (i. e. peigu) and vegOw 



5. In the same manner, although the 1st Aorist generally 

 follows the analogy of the 1st Future, yet it also seems, parti- 

 cularly in the more early periods of the language, to have 

 sometimes followed that of the 2d Future. Thus, y^u, e^ga — 

 SO hwa., fiveyxa or qveixa,, uXtvoifMvos, exijct, &C. 



Since, then, there are in the Greek Verb two Futures, and 

 two Preterites, each of which Preterites follows the analogy of 

 either Future ; and, since there are two Aorists, and that the 

 1st Aorist also follows the analogy of either Future, — query, — 

 Would it not, from these facts, he rather probable than other- 

 wise, that the 2d Aorist should also follow the analogy of 

 either Future ', that, as from rvxv there is formed Irwrov, so 

 from tv-^u there should be formed Uv-^ov ? and, if this were 



admitted, 



