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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt:...indicativas): the tree blossoms. b. As only thought of with regard to it, as a wish, a conception: may the tree blossom! (ÍvxthÚi, optativus). с. As ready to befall it, in case something else happen: / eat that I may live, hence do not live in case I do not eat. Thus the two verbs to eat and to live are brought into closer relation (¿Torotxrtxti, relativus or conjunctivus). 2. The first person, with reference to another, can desire that that other should pass into some state of being imperativas): be happy, be active, &c. Obs.--The moods also appear in all different genera of the verb, and enter into the several tenses, but under some limitations in the latter respect, of which we shall speak hereafter. 3. The moods already enumerated express existence always in connection with one of the three persons. If the expression be without reference or limitation to one of the persons, e. g. to live, to blossom, it is characterized in grammar as the indefinite mood ( asraospparof, modus iiißitifivux ). § LXXXVII. OF THE NUMBERS AND PERSONS OF THE VERB. 1. Since the verb, according to its nature, pre-supposes a subject, of which it expresses a property, and with which it stands in very close connection, it therefore alters its form, a. When the substantive alters its number: e. g. the tree grows, the trees (no longer grows but) grow. Hence we find in the verb, as in the noun, the singular, dual, and plural numbers. b. According to the person denoted by the subject: e. g. /, Sempronius, acquire; thou, Cains, acquirest; he, Gracchus, acquires (persons of the verb). 2. The numbers naturally repeat themselves in every mood, except the infinitive, which has no definite relation. If a language have three numbers, it must need nine person...