to the old Achaian dialect, but because of its felt incongruity in epic style: it is absent from the Nibelungenlied in the same way. The Moods of the present stem will be treated under their separate heads later. But there are two uses which should come in here, as bearing on the kind of action belonging to the tense–stem. The first concerns the two normal methods of expressing Prohibition in classical Greek, which survive in NT Greek, though less predominant than before. There is a familiar rule that