A Short Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin for Schools and Colleges (Paperback)

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. 1892 Excerpt: ...formed the optatives of non-thematic tenses, especially the present in-vd-, Sv-va-/j.ai 8v-vo-t-/-jv, and the two passive 1 Cf. supra 86 and 89, VII. 2 Cf. supra 104. 3 This explanation is far from being universally admitted; some, disdaining phonetic laws, would see an optative in leges = eyois; others connect cap-ie-s with So-lri-s, not seeing that the i of copies comes from the present capio. We cannot stop to discuss this point. aorists, Wr-if-v rwr-e-uj-v, i-Xv-drjv v-6t-trj-v, which were naturally influenced by the analogy of iOrjv dtirjv. A much later analogy substituted this formation for the following one in the present optatives of contracted verbs: iAoi v, ri/iwjyv, by the side of jiXoL/ii, Ti/auj/u; and even in some optatives of thematic aorists, T-o-i-q-v, ay-ay-o-Crj-v,1 etc. Some see the same suffix in the Latin subjunctive of the 1st conjugation, e.g. ames = amd-yS-s. Apart from this very doubtful case, it no longer exists in Latin except in the reduced form which was introduced from the plural into the singular, e.g. faxim=fac-s-i-m, vld-er-t-s for vld-er-ie-s = Gk. fei8-eo--iVs ("oVs, opt. of perf. oTSa), through the analogy of the regular vid-er-l-mus;2 it forms in Latin the tense called perfect subjunctive, which is strictly a perfect optative. The form of the future-perfect, vld-er-O, very greatly resembles the last form. It differs from it however, not only in the 1st pers. sing., but also, at any rate originally, throughout, in the quantity of its vowel i, which is always short; hence it ought to be included in the preceding class. Thus we should have vld-er-0 = tlS-e-u) (I may know), vld-er-is = vld-er-Ss, and the Latin future-perfect would be the regular perfect subjunctive (with short vowel), as vld-er-i-m certainl...