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[18] οἰκέοιτο … ἄγοιτο: potential optatives, but illustrating how the ‘wishing’ opt. shades off into this sense without “ἄν”: “ναίοιτε” 3.74, in the mouth of one who desires peace, is a little nearer the pure idea of ‘wish.’ We exactly express the ambiguity in translating ‘then may the city of P. be a habitation.’ Zeus is here not expressing a wish, but only putting as a possibility the result of his second alternative in l. 16.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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