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2241. Causal clauses denoting a fact regularly take the indicative after primary and secondary tenses.

ἐπεὶ δὲ ὑ_μεῖς οὐ βούλεσθε συμπορεύεσθαι, ἀνάγκη δή μοι ὑ_μᾶς προδόντα τῇ Κύ_ρου φιλίᾳ χρῆσθαι κτλ. but since you do not wish to continue the march with me, I must either retain the friendship of Cyrus by renouncing you, etc. X. A. 1.3.5, δ᾽ ἐζήλωσας ἡμᾶς ὡς τοὺς μὲν φίλους . . . εὖ ποιεῖν δυνάμεθα . . ., οὐδὲ ταῦθ᾽ οὕτως ἔχει but as to that which has excited your envy of us, our supposed ability (lit. because, as you think, we are able) to benefit our friends, not even is this so X. Hi. 6.12, ““ἐτύγχανε γὰρ ἐφ᾽ ἁμάξης πορευόμενος διότι ἐτέτρωτοfor he happened to be riding on a wagon from the fact that he had been woundedX. A. 2.2.14.

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