κατοκνήσεις. The clause “ὅπως κατοκνήσεις” denotes the object of the appeal implied in “εἰς σὲ δὴ βλέπω”. Cp. Ar. Eq. 1255“καί σ᾽ αἰτῶ βραχύ”, | “ὅπως ἔσομαί σοι Φανός”. This is the normal construction. The v. l. κατοκνήσῃς is also correct, but is less probable. Any verb can be followed by a ‘final’ clause in the subjunctive, expressing the ‘end’ or purpose of the action, as “ἔρχεται <*>να ἴδῃ”. But a verb of endeavouring, praying, contriving, usually takes an ‘object’ clause, expressing the object of the effort, with “ὅπως” (or “ὡς”) and fut. indic.: as “πειρᾶται ὅπως ὄψεται”. Exceptions occur, as Xen. An. 5. 6.§ 21 “προστατεῦσαι..ὅπως ἐκπλεύσῃ ἡ στρατιά”: Dem. or. 1 § 2 “παρασκευάσασθαι..ὅπως ἐνθένδε βοηθήσητε καὶ μὴ πάθητε ταὐτόν”: but these are comparatively rare. After a verb of effort, the presumption is always in favour of the fut. indic. See Goodwin, Moods and Tenses (new ed.), § 364. Brunck's comment, ‘soloece vulgo “κατοκνήσῃς”,’ alludes to the rule laid down by R. Dawes (ob. 1766) in Miscellanea Critica (p. 227), and once known as the canon Davesianus, that “ὅπως” could not be used with the first aor. subjunct. act. or midd. Among many examples that refute it are “ἐκπλεύσῃ” in the passage just quoted from Xen. (the fut. being “ἐκπλεύσεται”), and “κλαύσω” in 1122 (the fut. being “κλαύσομαι”).
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part VI: The Electra. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1894.
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