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14 TENSES. [13.
corruption or misreading.
The facts certainly give much countenance to this
view, which has been adopted by Curtius (Stud. i. 2, 292) and Nauck. It
can hardly be accidental that out of 54 places in which rjv occurs in the thesis
or second half of the foot, there are 50 in which it is followed by a vowel, as
II. 2. 77 NCO-TOJ/) os pa IlvAoiO dvag rjv r/ftaOoevTOS.
Od. 17. 208 8' ajjL(f)l dp' alyetpwv vScLTOTpttyecw r\v d\ffos.
Moreover, out of 72 instances of ITJV there are 63 in which it is followed by
a consonant (including f).
On the other hand, in 26 places TJV occurs in the
first half of the foot, and in 2 places it ends the line (in the phrase ou5' dpa ircas
or cev,
and it is not
rjv) easy to correct many of these so as to admit TJCV ;
Again, fy and V nave sme support in the 2 Sing, forms ^aOa, ^a$a. (For
e?7n, in Hes. Th. 875), and the
Opt. Kixe-irj may find. The vowel is also long in epiJ-ro protected,
Inf. pv-crOai, ;
and in all forms of Ketjuai, ^juat, orcv/xat.
A similar Non-thematic inflexion, in which the final vowel of
the Stem is long except before -IT and -i, appears in the j^Eolic
conjugation of verbs in -ju, as ye'Aai-j/t / laugh, aivr\-\ki
I praise
(Hes. Op. 681), (/Arj-ju Hove (i
Plur. (j)i\rj-^v, 3 Plur.
Part. ^>tX?;-jULe^os), crdco-jut
I save. See 19.
13.] The Simple Non-Thematic Aorist. This term includes
the ( Second Aorists/ such as -(3r]-v e-o-r?;-^ &c., and also those
so-called First Aorists in which the -d of the i Sing. Active is
added directly to the Verb-stem, as in e-xev-a.
Variation of quantity
is rare in the Active, but the Stem is
usually shortened in the Middle. The chief forms are : e-fa-v
I went, 3 Du. (3d-rr]v (but also f-firjrriv), 3 Plur. virtp-fid-a-av,
Imper. /merd-/3rj^t, Inf. /3rj-/xef at : Z-VT*]-V I stood, Du. OTTJ-TT/Z^
Plur. e-o"n7-fxei>, e-o-rrj-re, l-oTrj-o-ay, Imper.