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Verus enim amor semper tempore tristi elucescit magis. (Philipp Melanchthon: Decl. de studiis Linguæ Græcæ) Quin age, si quid habes (P. Vergilii Maronis Ecloga III:52)
Tertius Robertus wrote:do the greeks distinguish between them at all?
No, in the sense that ειμι has neither aorist nor perfect forms. But there are other verbs like γίγνομαι whose meaning comes close to fuit.
by Tertius Robertus » Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:33 pm 