[*] 41. The Greek sometimes uses an idiom like the English he was the one who did it for he is the one who did it; as “ἦν ὁ τὴν γνώμην ταύτην εἰπὼν Πείσανδρος,” THUC. viii. 68 ; “τίς ἦν ὁ βοηθήσας τοῖς Βυζαντίοις καὶ σώσας αὐτούς;” DEM. xviii. 88.
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