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164. Herodotus sometimes uses the iterative forms in -σκον and -σκόμην with ἄν in the construction of 162. He uses this form of the aorist in only two passages, in both with ἄν. E.g. “Φοιτέουσα κλαίεσκε ἂν καὶ ὀδυρέσκετο.iii. 119 . “Ἐς τούτους ὅκως ἔλθοι Σκύλης, τὴν μὲν στρατιὴν καταλείπεσκε ἐν τῷ προαστείῳ, αὐτὸς δὲ ὅκως ἔλθοι ἐς τὸ τεῖχος, λάβεσκε ἂν Ἑλληνίδα ἐσθῆτα.iv. 78 . So “λάβεσκον ἄν,iv. 130 . See Krüger, II. § 53, 10, 5.

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