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[270] ὅππως κε … ἀπώσεαι, ‘how thou mayest;’ indicative future with “κε”, as Il.17. 144, etc. See on this passage Monro, H. G. § 326. 3, where he notices the impossibility of deciding whether ἀπώσεαι be a future indicative, or aorist subjunctive; and combats Prof. Goodwin's view, that the future ‘differs from the subjunctive only by being a more vivid form of statement.’ Mr. Monro takes exactly the other view, remarking that the subjunctive is akin to the imperative, and expresses the speaker's purpose directly; whereas the future properly expresses sequence, and so implies purpose only indirectly.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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