ἰδιώτης ἐστί· πόνον μὲν ἔχει, τέχνην δὲ οὔ· κόψει ποτὲ τὸν
ἴδιον δάκτυλον τῇ μαχαίρᾳ, καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸν ἴδιον αὐτὸς ἑαυτοῦ
σκάψει τάφον· τοιοῦτο γὰρ δὴ φιλεῖ γίνεσθαι τὸ τῶν ἀπαιδεύτων τέλος,
he is a bungler. He has labour, but no skill.
He will cut his finger with his knife some day, and dig his own grave.
Such is wont to be the end of the unlearned.
English Affinities
Hydrophobia. Chronology. Chronic. Andrew. Idiot. Penury. Technical. Polytechnic. Idiosyncrasy. Paedeutics.
LESSON VIII
The Past Tense
The first aorist or indefinite past tense follows the type of the future, with a σ before the personal terminations, and an augment ε prefixed to the whole word, as a sign of the past tense, thus—
| πράξω, | I will do. | ||
| ἔπραξα, | -ας, -ε, I, thou, he |  | did |
| ἐπράξαμεν, | -ατε, -αν, we, you, they |
In liquid verbs, where the future has no σ, the aorist lengthens the vowel of the penult, as—
| μένω | μενῶ | ἔμεινα |
| στέλλω | στελῶ | ἔστειλα |
| τείνω | τενῶ | ἔτεινα |
There is another form of the past in