How ancients understood the aorist, etc, is an interesting question which
can be researched via the TLG. I did a quick search of AORIST* through all
grammatical works on the TLG and I got 402 hits, the earliest being
Aristotle's _Problemata_. The TLG also includes a number of grammatical
papyri. Looking at the TLG word index showed that AORIST* occurs 3,738
times. That could keep someone busy for awhile :-)
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