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Glosses on Priscian (St. Gall).

merito a quibusdam ‘instans’ imper­fectum nominatur². Nisi enim sit imper­fectum, in eo adhuc esse actus intellegi non potest³. Futurum quoque cum incertum sit .. ⁴et infinitum, utrum paulo post an multo erit⁵, non potuit discretis quibusdam finibus declina­tionis uti.

Apud Graecos etiam praeteriti temporis sunt imperatiua⁶, quamuis ipsa quoque ad futuri temporis sensum per­tineant, ut ἠνεῴχθω ἡ πύλη ‘aperta sit porta⁷’…

P. 148a

Erga nos quoque possumus in passiuis…uti¹ praeterito tempore im­peratiui…‘amatus sit²’ uel ‘esto’… Quod autem uim prae­teriti habet huiusce­modi con­structio³ ostendunt sub­iunctiua prae­teriti perfecti…

Optatiuus autem, quamuis ipse quoque uideatur ad futurum pertinere…tamen habet etiam praete­ritum tempus, quia euenit saepe de ab­sentibus et ignotis rebus precari⁴, ut facta⁵ esse ante nobis potuerint in notitiam uenire, ut si⁶, filio meo Romae in praesenti

2: .i. ainm leo dofrecṅdairc imperfecto 3: .i. issed dogní frecṅdairc de praesenti buith neich de chen forbae ar maníbé bith sechmadachte · · 4: .i. is ecintech ingním ara­folmathar 5: .i. post .i. paulo post bá multo post · 6: .i. arecar forṅgarthaid sech­madachti lagrécu · ˘ 7: .i. bad ærsoilc­the .i. guth sechmadachti ⁊ todochaidi immurgu

P. 148a

1: .i. aramberam biuth 2: .i. bad carthi 3: .i. issed acumdach leiss accomol indarann oc slund imperatiui · ˘ 4: .i. ind réta adgúsi optait ní bíat cedacht 5: amal farcuim­sitis 6: .i. forcom­nacair buith amaicc som hiróim affamenad som didiu no légad amacc innheret sin imbói [in marg.] et · robu anfiss dosom inrolég fanacc · dég rombu écṅdaircc do ⁊ afamenad raḟesed in roleg · · ˘

2. i.e. a name they have for the present imperfect. 3. i.e. this is what makes a present de praesenti, that something of it is without com­pletion, for unless there be, it will be a preterite. 4. i.e. the act is indef­inite for whose sake it is under­taken. 5. i.e. post i.e. paulo-post or multo-post. 6. i.e. an imper­ative of the past is found with the Greeks. 7. i.e. let it be opened, i.e. a word of the preterite and yet of the future.

P. 148a

1. i.e. to use (lit. that we may use). 2. i.e. let him be loved. 3. i.e. this is the con­struction in his opinion, junction of the two parts in express­ing the imper­ative. 4. i.e. the things which the optative desires, they are not however. 5. as though they had happened. 6. i.e. his son happened to be in Rome. He desired then that his son should read during that time that he was (there); but he (the father) knew not whether he (the son) had read or not, because he was absent from him; and he (the father) wished that he should know it, whether he (the son) had read.