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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. 1807 Excerpt:...ri TiSir, inTot: iV » aixts: S(So», Inns: fyvyi-ii, iins. The second aorist is formed from the present, by dropping the reduplication; Stfr, SivTo;: r«?, T«vt: Sue, WwOff. CHAP. IV. Of the Passive and Middle Voice of Verbs in fit. Rule XI. Formation of the Passive. the short characteristic must precede in verbs passive; changing it into a diphthong in the optative: The second person is in axi or co; but the others conform to barylonous verbs: The subjunctive is regulated by the active: And the Imperative ends in to. Seldom used. Observations on the dialects. The second person singular admits of a contraction here in thest two tenses, after having rejected the consonant; It/wo, It'ak, It!0«: 7Vcro, ao, «, 4rc. iJiSoiro, M, «. £u A; Dorics change « iMa «v; tTiflit!, £rc. TAtf same is also practised in the imperative, which, as we have already observed, follows the analogy of the second person of the imperfect passive. The SUBJUNCTIVE. Present and Imperfect. This subjunctive has an i subscribed to the second person of-all sorts of verbs. See Book III. Chap, xi, It is formed from the active, whose accent, contraction, and penultima it retains. But irjuutitpossim, has an acute on the antepenultima, because vvedo notsay Juyvj/x in the active. See the optative here following. Second Aorist Middle. SfiTfl», &C TlCI. curcti. This aorist is always conjugated xiith an x, though the passive jpiperfect oftentimes assumes an x; agreeably to what we hare observed if the active. The OPTATIVE. Present and Imperfect. ANNOTATION. This tense, as also the following, includes its characteristics! owel in its diphthong, after the manner of the active. The second and third person are marked with a circumflex on the pe...