Aorist in Similes.—The aorist is used in similes in poetry, and usually contains the point of comparison. It may alternate with the present. Thus ἤριπε δ᾽ ὡς ὅτε τις δρῦς ἤριπεν
he fell as falls an oak Π 482, οἷος δ᾽ ἐκ νεφέων ἀνα φαίνεται οὔλιος ἀστὴρ ι παμφαίνων, τότε δ᾽ αὖτις ἔδῡ νέφεα σκιόεντα, ι ὣς Ἕκτωρ κτλ and as from out of the clouds all radiant appears a baneful star, and then again sinks within the shadowy clouds, so Hector, etc. Α 62.
a. The aorist in 1931, 1935 is used of time past (in 1934 of the future), from the point of view of an assumed or ideal present.