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. 1876 Excerpt: ...legi=leligi. All simple perfects therefore have originally sprung from reduplicated ones. The reduplication was either retained with a shortened root-vowel or dropped and the root-vowel lengthened instead. LX. Greek Simple Or Strong, So-called Second, Aorist. The stem of the strong aorist is, with a few exceptions, the same as the simple verbal root. This in its unmodified state, as distinguished from the present stem, expresses momentary and transient action. Further formative materials are, for the indicative mood, the augment expressing past time inserted as a prefix before the root, and, through its influence, secondary personal terminations. An aorist form, like Ifirpi root fia, coincides, as in t-qv, with the imperfect of a verb, which in the present also shows only the bare root; but this is, like /3fi, /3aiV, etc., in distinction from f, S, t, aiijv, to be recognised as an aorist from the fact, that from the root /3a no present form with naked root, such as /fy/u, is in use; I/jijv therefore, coexisting with the present /3uVa), is used as an aorist, while lt, rjv with an original durative signification is used as an imperfect. The Homeric dialect frequently employs the reduplication in an intensive signification, with or without the augment, in order to form the strong aorist: irtmOav, hnrov = thfeirov, href, vov with syncope of the 3. Forms with change of vowel--with syncope of the radical vowel or metathesis, as in Z-npaOov from irepOo, a special change of the root in the strong aorist--in order to distinguish the aorist from the imperfect: tKravov, root Kttv, Irpairov, imperfect trpeirov. The aorist formation has been lost in Latin through the want both of the augment and of the distinction between primary and secondary personal endings. The followi