Aside from the considerations which seem to support this view drawn from the constructions of the Subjunctive, there are some general facts that tend to show the close connection between the Future and the Modal System of the indo-european languages.

The Futures of the third and fourth conjugations in Latin, are obviously forms of the original Optative, which have crowded out the regular Future, which is formed, as it appears in Greek, with a sibilant. Again, the forms of the Future Perfect Indicative and the Perfect Subjunctive in Latin, except in the first person, are absolutely identical; and, although this does not show that these forms have the same origin, or, at any rate, that they have been devel oped through the same process, which last is obviously udt the case, yet it does show that they are kindred in mean ing, and contain, ultimately, the same formative element. The accidental difference in the first person between rim and ro is of little account, inasmuch as the final 0 of verbs both in Latin and Greek represents an original m.

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