αὐτίκα μάλα· κληθήσεται, instantly; he shall be called.
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LESSON XVII
The Middle Voice
The middle voice, or, as it might more significantly be called, the reflexive or the subjective voice, is a form of the verb where the action does not pass on from the agent to an outward object, but comes back on him, or in some loose way is looked on as done for his benefit, or affecting himself specially. Thus it is in the main identical with what in Latin grammar used to be called neuter verbs, only it is subject to not a few nice shades of personal reference, which leads to its apparent confusion with the active voice, and to various anomalous usages which can only be learned by practice. It is, of course, in strictness more nearly allied to the passive than to the active voice; for in both these voices, as distinguished from the active, the force of the verb is either altogether spent on the agent, or is in some way passively or emotionally or intentionally connected with him. This intimate relationship leads to a similarity of form in the two voices, the present and imperfect middle being in fact identical with the same tenses in the passive voice, and the other tenses, in their characteristic changes, more allied to the passive than to the active.
Future Indicative
| λύσομαι | λύσῃ | λύσεται |
| λυσόμεθα | λύσεσθε | λύσονται |
First Aorist
| ἐλυσάμην | ἐλύσω | ἐλύσατο |
| ἐλυσάμεθα | ἐλύσασθε | ἐλύσαντο |