Tense Usage

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Tense Usage

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I have noticed many times a paragraph of Greek starts in the present tense and then moves into the secondary tenses (imperfect or aorist). Can anyone tell me why? Thanks :)

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Can you cite an example for us?
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/http://www.scholiastae.org/
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;

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