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680. Εἰ, whether, can introduce the subjunctive here, as well as the indicative or optative: see XEN. Cyr. viii. 4, 16 , and AESCHIN. iii. 202, quoted in 677. Ἐάν cannot mean whether, and wherever this introduces a subjunctive the expression is conditional. (See 493.)

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