[*] 604. A few cases occur of a peculiar assimilation of a clause with ὥστε to a preceding optative in protasis, ὥστε having apparently the force of a conditional relative. E.g. Εἴ τις τὴν γυναῖκα τὴν σὴν οὕτω θεραπεύσειεν ὥστε φιλεῖν αὐτὴν μᾶλλον ποιήσειεν ἑαυτὸν ἢ σὲ, ἆρ᾽ ἄν σε εὐφράναι; if one should court your wife so as to make her more fond of himself than of you, etc. XEN. Cyr. v. 5, 30 (two MSS. have ποιήσειν). So v. 3, XEN. Cyr. 47 (εἴσοιτο). Εἴ τις χρῷτο τῷ ἀργυρίῳ ὥστε πριάμενος οἷον ἑταίραν διὰ ταύτην κάκιον μὲν τὸ σῶμα ἔχοι, κάκιον δὲ τὴν ψυχὴν, πῶς ἂν ὠφέλιμον εἴη; Id. Oec. i. 13. Καταγελαστότερον εἰ . . . ἡμεῖς εἰς τοσοῦτον μικροψυχίας ἔλθοιμεν, ὥστε τὰ προστάγματα τούτων ὑπομείναιμεν (so Cod. Urb.; other MSS. ὑπομεῖναι). ISOC. vi. 84.
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