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Chapter IV
Section III: Subjunctive, like the Future Indicative, in
Independent Sentences.—Interrogative Subjunctive.
Peculiar Forms of Conditional Sentences: Substitution and
Ellipsis in Protasis.—Protasis without a Verb.
Homeric and other Poetic Peculiarities in Conditional
Relative Sentences: Subjunctive without
κέ
or
ἄν
.
Temporal Particles signifying Until and Before.:
ἕως
,
ὄφρα, εἰς ὅ
or
εἰσόκε, ἔστε, ἄχρι, μέχρι
, until.
Simple Sentences in Indirect Discourse: Indicative and
Optative after
ὅτι
and
ὡς
, and in Indirect
Questions.
[*] 718. A causal sentence may be interrogative, or its verb may express a wish or a command. E.g. Ἐπεὶ, φέρ᾽ εἰπὲ, ποῦ σὺ μάντις εἶ σαφής; “ for—come tell me—where do you ever show yourself a prophet?” SOPH. O.T. 390. Ἐπεὶ δίδαξον, ἢ μάθ᾽ ἐξ ἐμοῦ, τί μοι κέρδος γένοιτ᾽ ἄν. Id. El. 352: so O. C. 969. See PLAT. Gorg. 474 B: ἐπεὶ σὺ δέξαἰ ἄν; Ἐπεὶ ἄθεος ἄφιλος ὅτι πύματον ὀλοίμαν, “for—may I perish!” SOPH. O.T. 662.
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