Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges

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[*] 673. Indicative.—The indicative adds the active secondary endings directly to the tense stem ending in -θη- (first aorist) or -η- (second aorist). The inflection is thus like that of the imperfect of a verb in -μι.

ἐλύθη-ν	ἐτίθη-ν			ἐλύθη-μεν	ἐτίθε-μεν
ἐλύθη-ς	ἐτίθη-ς	ἐλύθη-τον	ἐτίθε-τον	ἐλύθη-τε	ἐτίθε-τε
ἐλύθη	ἐτίθη	ἐλυθή-την	ἐτιθέ-την	ἐλύθη-σαν	ἐτίθε-σαν

a. For -σαν we find -ν from -ν（τ) in poetical and dialectic forms before which η has been shortened to ε (40), thus ὥρμηθεν for ὡρμήθησαν from ὁρμάω urge.