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12 and number, and showing activity or passivity. The verb has eight accidents: Moods, Dispositions (voices!), Species, Forms, Numbers, Tenses, Persons, Conjugations. There are five Moods: Indicative, Imperative, Optative, Subjunctive, and Infinitive. There are three Dispositions : Activity, Passivity, and Mediality—Activity, as (I strike); Passivity, as  (I am struck); Mediality, marking partly activity and partly passivity, as  (I trust),  (I waste),  (I became),  (I registered). There are two Species: Primitive and Derivative—Primitive, as ; Derivative, as. There are three Forms: Simple, Compound, and Super-Compound—Simple, as ; Compound, as ; Super-Compound, as (I Antigonize),  (I Philippize). There are three Numbers: Singular, Dual, and Plural—Singular, as ; Dual, as Plural, as. There are three Persons: First, Second, and Third. The First is the person from whom the assertion is; the Second, the one to whom it is; and the Third, the one concerning whom it is. There are three Tenses: Present, Past, Future. Of these, the Past has four sub-species—Imperfect, Perfect, Pluperfect, and Aorist—which stand in three respective relations: the Present is related to the Imperfect, the Perfect to the Pluperfect, and the Aorist to the Future.

(συζυγία).

Conjugation is the consecutive inflection of Verbs. Of Barytone Verbs there are six conjugations, of which the First is characterized by, , , or , as , , , ; the Second by , , , or , as , , , ; the Third by , , or , as , , ; the Fourth by or , as , , ; the Fifth by the four unchangeables, , , , , as , ; and the Sixth by a pure, as , , ,. Some also introduce a Seventh Conjugation, characterized by and, as ,.

(περισπώμενος).

Of Circumflexed Verbs there are three Conjugations, of which the First is characterized in the second and third persons by the diphthong, as , , ; the Second by