Conjugating γράφω.

The papyrus was published in 1940, but I hadn’t seen it until now, and perhaps it will be new to you as well: A 3rd century papyrus conjugating γράφω in the indicative, posted the other day by Roger Pearse on his blog: Here is a truly fascinating item. It’s a leaf of papyrus from Oxyrhynchus. On it, someone has drawn out a table of the forms of the Greek verb γράφω (“I write”)! […] What is displayed here is the forms of the verb, and these are labelled, much as they would be in a modern text. […] The first side of the papyrus, the recto, shows the perfect and pluperfect indicative active forms. This side of the papyrus, the verso, shows the middle/passive forms. Indeed at the top of the page it states “τούτων παθητικὰ ἐνεστῶτος” = “The present passive forms of these”. Then there is a line of dashes below. In the margins, letters indicating whether each block is singular, dual, or plural. The first blocks on the left are the present indicative middle/passive. These start with “alpha” –…