merito a quibusdam 'instans' imperfectum nominatur^ Nisi enim sit imperfectum, in eo adhuc esse actus intellegi non potest'. Futurum quoque cum incertum sit . . *et infinitum, utrum paulo post an multo erit", non potuit discretis quibusdam finibus declina- 5 tionis uti.
Apud Graecos etiam praeteriti temporis sunt imperatiua*, quam- uis ipsa quoque ad futuri temporis sensum pertineant, ut ^vemx^ot -q irvXt)^ 'aperta sit porta^'... Erga nos quoque possumus in P- 148a passiuis...uti^ praeterito tempore imperatiui^...'amatus sit^' uel lo'esto'... Quod autem uim praeteriti habet huiuscemodi con- (^- P- ^0"^) structio^ ostendunt subiunctiua" praeteriti perfecti...
Optatiuus autem, quamuis ipse quoque uideatur ad futurum pertinere.-.tamen habet etiam *^ praeteritum tempus, quia euenit saepe de absentibus et ignotis rebus precari*, ut facta* esse ante nobis 15 potuerint in notitiam uenii-e, ut si", filio meo Romae in praesenti
2. .i. ainm leo dofrecndairc imperfecio 3. .i. issed dogni^-'^^l^
freciidairc de praesenti huith neich de chen forhae ar manibe bith 'continued
sechmadskchte • • 4. .i. is ecintech ingnim arafolmathar 5. .i.
post .i. paulo post bd multo post • 6. .i. arecar forngarthaid
20 sechmadachti lagrecu • - 7. .i. bad cersoilcthe .i. gidh sech-
madachti 7 iodochaidi wimurgu
1. .i. aramberam biuth 2. .i. bad carthi 3. .i. issed P. I48a acumdach leiss accomol indarann ocslund^ imperatiui • ~ 4. .1. ind r6ta adgiksi optait m biat cedacht o. ama farcuimsitis ^5 6. .i. forcomnacair buith amaicc som hiroini affamenad som didiu no legad amacc innheret sin imbdi^ [in marg.] et- robu anfiss dosoni inro- leg fanacc • deg rombu ecndaircc'^ do 7 afamenad rafesed in roleg • • ~
2. i.e. a name they have for the present imperfect. 3. i.e. P. 147 b
this is what makes a present de praesenti, that something of it is continued
30 without completion, for unless there be, it will be a preterite. 4, ie.
the act is indefinite for whose sake it is undertaken*^. 5. i.e.
post i.e. paulo-post or multo-post. 6. i.e. an imperative of the
past is found ^ith the Greeks. 7. i.e. let it be opened, i.e. a word of
the preterite and yet of the future.
1. i.e. to use (lit. that we may use). 2. i.e. let him be loved'. P- 148a 3. i.e. this is the construction in his opinion, junction of the two parts in expressing the imperative. 4. i.e. the things which the optative desires, they are not however. 5. as though they had happened. 6. i.e. his son happened to be in Rome. He desired then that his son 40 should read during that time that he was (there) ; but he (the father) knew not whether he (the son) had read or not, because he was absent from him; and he (the father) wished that he should know it, whether he (the son) had read.
a: MS. HNHCoxBoJ- HHYAN
b: MS. imperatiuo
c: MS. subjunctatina
d: .i. habet <» habet etiam, MS. etiam
e: cf. Sg. 209" 28.
f: leg. mboi ? cf. Ml. 33» 9, 39» 2
g: cf. Sg. 161" 3, Ml. 29<» 15
h: 'that it purposes ' (?), cf. Vol. i. p. 615 note f, J.S. See Ase. Gl. p. 149
i: if carthi =carthe (rectius charthe); otherwise amatus sit is mistranslated as amandus sit
