Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...c.F. rtp.-, To Zevlpov Tctfiryrai, the tree has been cut down. These changes take place in all the perfect passive and middle forms, except the fut. perfect. II. The termination of the 3d person plural is not included in the above table; because when the crude form ends in a consonant,1 that person is not formed by inflection, but by eia-i and the perfect participle, which is made from the same tense-form as the present perfect tense, by suffixing fievo-, before which the same euphonic changes take place as in the first person of that tense: e.g. C.F. ray-, perf. 3d P.P. re-Tuy-fievoi citri, they have been drawn up.2 III. In all the perfect pass, and mid. forms, except the future, t is changed into a, (1) in monosyllabic roots 1 Sometimes even when the c.F. ends in a vowel. 2 The reason of this is, that, as a general rule, three consonants cannot stand together in Greek; and the plan adopted in the 2d person plural, namely, the omission of one of the consonants of the termination, is inadmissible in the 3d; since of the two consonants belonging to the latter, v is necessary to mark the distinction between the plural and the singular, and T is the essential characteristic of the 3d person; whereas in the 2d P.p. a may safely be omitted, 9 sufficiently marking the person. Exercise 40. 1. We have been collected much more-numerously (ad/.) now than when we conquered the enemy, and have been much better prepared now than formerly. 2. The horses have-been-armed-with-coats-of-niail, the charioteers completely-protected with-breastplates and helmets, and iron scythes have been fitted to (rapt, dot) the axles. 3. On-the-one-hand,1 ye have practised the (things) relating-to (cit) war much more than-the enemy; onthe-other,1 ye have been...