A grammar of the Homeric dialect - Wilbourhall.org

64 TENSE MEANING.
[72.
72.] Essentially progressive action (incomplete or continuous)
is exemplified
(1) In the Verbs which form the Aor. from a different Verb-
Stem :
opdo) I watch (Lat. tueor, whereas tlbov means / descried)
Aeyco 1 relate, set forth (but elirov I said) ; 0epo) / carry (but
tfvtyKov I brought) ;
so rpe^co, tpyo^ai (expressing different kinds
of motion).
(2) In other Verbs of motion, esp. fiaiva and urrryjuu, as II. 21.
13 i(TTif]
be /ze'ya Ku/xa raise up a great wave, and often in the
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id., as II. 2. 473 *v ^8i(j> Ivravro were drawn up in the plain,
came and stood beside, &c.
Note i. We should read torao-av (not rras urrao-av ine? 'Axatwf which the Greeks had planted ; see 73.
Od. 3.
1 80 TfTparov ^fjiap fr/v or' tv 'Apye'i vrjas fi'aas
IvSfi'Seo) erapoi . . . to-rao-av (see Ameis a. Z.).
8. 435 at 8e \otTpoxoov rpiiroS' ta-rao-av
, , ~ Bekk. ,
La Eoche.
lo. 307 avritea XafAirTTjpas rpeis icrracrav )
2. The Verb dyw is often so used : II. i. 367 rfjv 8e 8if-rrpa.eofj.ev re /fat r\yo\nev
fvOa.Se = -navro. ; II. 7. 363 KTrjp.ara 5* oaa' dyofji^v the treasures which I brought
( have brought) ; II. 9. 664 rrjv A.fcr/3oOv 3\yc
whom he had brought. In this
Verb, however, the Aorist meaning appears distinctly in the Participle ;
II. 6. 87 r/ Se ^vvdyovcra 76patas assembling ( = having assembled) j II. i. 311 flffev
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