581 The present, aorist, and perfect tenses of the participle denote
the kind of action rather than time; the present denotes continuance or repetition, the aorist denotes simple occurrence
or attainment, the perfect denotes a completed act or a continued state (cp. [475](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-475.html), [563](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-563.html)).
- a. But when a participle represents an indicative clause,
the tenses retain the tense-meaning of the indicative, and denote time present, past, or future relatively to that of the leading verb. The future participle is always so used; for the
other tenses the context alone determines whether the time-value is intended or not (cp.
[577](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-577.html)).
Note examples in the following sections.