[*] 181. (c) After an optative in a wish twelve examples of these clauses with the optative and ten with the subjunctive are cited from Homer and the lyric and tragic poets. These are “Τάχιστά μοι ἔνδον ἑταῖροι εἶεν, ἵν᾽ ἐν κλισίῃ λαρὸν τετυκοίμεθα δόρπον” Od. xiv. 407. So xviii. 368, Od. xx. 79. (Subjunctive in Il. xvi. 99, Il. xxiv. 74; Od. iv. 735, Od. xviii. 202.) So THEOG. 885, THEOG. 1119; PIND. Py. v. 120 (?). (Subj. Nem. viii. 35.) Ἔλθοι ὅπως γένοιτο τῶνδ᾽ ἐμοὶ λυτήριος. AESCH. Eum. 297. “Γενοίμαν ἵν᾽ ὑλᾶεν ἔπεστι πόντου πρόβλημ᾽ ἁλίκλυστον, τὰς ἱερὰς ὅπως προσείποιμεν Ἀθήνας” SOPH. Aj. 1217 ; so Ph. 324 and Tr. 953. (Subj. SOPH. Tr. 1109.) Εἴ μοι γένοιτο φθόγγος ἐν βραχίοσι, ὡς πάνθ᾽ ὁμαρτῇ τῶν ἔχοιντο γουνάτων. EUR. Hec. 836; so EUR. Hipp. 732. (Subjunctives in EUR. Hel. 174, Suppl. 621, I.T. 439, EUR. Ion. 671.)
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