490 ON THE ANALOGY IN THE FORMATION OF SOME 



into an expression of present time, in the sense in which pre- 

 sent time is generally understood. I shall note the places of 

 occurrence, that any person may, if he chuses, examine them, 

 and judge for himself. They are these : Hesiod. Op. et Dies, 

 v. 477. ; II. a. 240. ; f. 363, 502. ; x. 182. ; o. 505. ; ^. 47. ; 

 co. 728. Od. I 515. ; 6. 198. ; *. 276. 



'Ifo^a/, the Future of Iku, then, must be decidedly excluded 

 from the catalogue of new Presnts, devised by the Greek Scho- 

 liasts to account for the supposed Imperfects, so frequent in 

 Homer. And yet a new Present \%u, is equally necessary in 

 this, as in any other verb of the kind, to account for l^ov, they 

 came, the past tense, formed upon the analogy of the first Fu- 

 ture ; which, though not noticed either by Dr Clarke, or by 

 Heyne', is no less frequent in Homer than the Future itself. 

 Thus, 



'AM.' ot2 Ssj Tgor/jv IHON, •xora.pM n ptovrt. II. i. 773. 

 At quando jam Trojam ve^ervnt, fluviosque labentes. 



See also, //. *. 470. ; f. 433. ; <p. 1. ; *>. 692. Od. y. 5, 31, 495.; 

 h 1. ; s. 194. Hymn, in Apoll. 411. 438. 230. 278. 



Nor is there a single unequivocal example of the 1st Aorist 

 of this verb to be found in the poems either of Homer or of 

 Hesiod, except one, viz. <|a?, which occurs in the Hymn to 

 Apollo, v. 223. In that same Hymn, however, there are no 

 fewer than four examples of the form in -ov (/|m), and ano- 

 ther still in the Hymn to Mercury, v. 398. 



This instance of llav, so frequent in Homer, may therefore 

 be fairly admitted to be, in the language of the celebrated Ba- 

 con, an instantia cruris, clearly pointing out the true method 

 of accounting for all the other Homeric Forms of the same de- 

 scription. If so, there will be no longer any necessity for the 



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