Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Further qualifications

The dramatic content of present and aorist imperatives cannot be expressed in general terms. The dramatic content of a form depends entirely on the speaker’s state of mind, in the way he views the existing situation, and varies with the context. The only constant consists in the fact that the present stem expresses a connection and that the aorist stem does not.—The Greek Imperative, page 66

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