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[*] 154. The aorist and sometimes the perfect indicative are used in animated language to express general truths. These are called the gnomic aorist and the gnomic perfect, and are usually to be translated by our present.
Macmillan. London, Melbourne, Toronto. 1889. reprint edition:. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1965.
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