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section:
The Tenses.
I. Tenses of the Indicative: Present.
Imperfect.
Perfect and Pluperfect.
Aorist.
Future.
Future Perfect.
II. Tenses of the Dependent Moods.
Not in Indirect Discourse.
Present and Aorist.
Subjunctive and Imperative.
Optative.
Infinitive.
Perfect.
Future.
Optative and Infinitive of Indirect Discourse.
Present Optative.
Present Infinitive.
Perfect Optative.
Perfect Infinitive.
Aorist Optative.
Aorist Infinitive.
Future Optative.
Future Infinitive.
Future Perfect.
III. Tenses of the Participle.
Present Participle.
Perfect Participle.
Aorist Participle.
Future Participle.
Gnomic and Iterative tenses: Gnomic Aorist and Perfect.
Iterative Imperfect and Aorist with
ἄν
.—Ionic Iterative Forms in
-σκον
and
-σκόμην
.
Dependence of Moods and Tenses.
Indicative.
Subjunctive and Imperative.
Optative.
Infinitive and Participle.
This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
Chapter II
Chapter IV
Section III: Subjunctive, like the Future Indicative, in
Independent Sentences.—Interrogative Subjunctive.
Peculiar Forms of Conditional Sentences: Substitution and
Ellipsis in Protasis.—Protasis without a Verb.
Homeric and other Poetic Peculiarities in Conditional
Relative Sentences: Subjunctive without
κέ
or
ἄν
.
Temporal Particles signifying Until and Before.:
ἕως
,
ὄφρα, εἰς ὅ
or
εἰσόκε, ἔστε, ἄχρι, μέχρι
, until.
Simple Sentences in Indirect Discourse: Indicative and
Optative after
ὅτι
and
ὡς
, and in Indirect
Questions.
Chapter V
Chapter VI
[*] 160. The gnomic perfect is found in the infinitive of indirect discourse in DEM. ii. 18: εἰ δέ τις σώφρων ἢ δίκαιος, παρεῶσθαι καὶ ἐν οὐδενὸς εἶναι μέρει τὸν τοιοῦτον (φησίν), such a man (he says) is always thrust aside and is of no account.
Macmillan. London, Melbourne, Toronto. 1889. reprint edition:. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1965.
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