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[*] 348. The Attic writers sometimes use ὅπως ἄν with the subjunctive in these object clauses. This occurs chiefly in Aristophanes, Xenophon, and Plato. E.g. Σκόπει ὅπως ἂν ἀποθάνωμεν ἀνδρικώτατα, “see that we die most manfully.” AR. Eq. 80. Διαμηχανήσομαι ὅπως ἂν ἱστίον σαπρὸν λάβῃς, I will contrive that (somehow?) you get a rotten mast. Ib. 917. So AR. Nub. 739, AR. Eccl. 623, AR. Ach. 1060, AR. Eq. 926. Μᾶλλον ἢ πρόσθεν εἰσῄει αὐτοὺς ὅπως ἂν καὶ ἔχοντές τι οἴκαδε ἀφίκωνται. XEN. An. vi. 1, 17. (Here some word like ἐπιμέλεια is understood as the subject of εἰσῄει.) Τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιμελεῖται ὅπως ἂν θηρῶσιν. Id. Cyr. i. 2, Id. Cyr. 10. Ἐκέλευσε τὸν Φεραύλαν ἐπιμεληθῆναι ὅπως ἂν οὕτω γένηται αὔριον ἡ ἐξέλασις. Ib. viii. 3, Ib. 6: so v. 5, Ib. 48.See also XEN. Cyneg. vi. 23; Eques. iv. 3. Ἦ ἄλλου ἐφιέμενοι δικάσουσιν ἢ τούτου, ὅπως ἂν ἕκαστοι μήτ᾽ ἔχωσι τἀλλότρια μήτε τῶν αὑτῶν στέρωνται; PLAT. Rep. 433E. Πάντα ποιοῦντας ὅπως ἂν σφίσι τὸ πηδάλιον ἐπιτρέψῃ. Ib. 488C. Ἐὰν δ᾽ ἔλθῃ, μηχανητέον ὅπως ἂν διαφύγῃ καὶ μὴ δῷ δίκην ὁ ἐχθρός. Gorg. 481A. Besides the examples cited above, Weber gives fifteen of Plato, and the following: SOPH. Tr. 618; EUR. I. A. 539; ISAE. vii. 30; DEM. xvi. 17, DEM. xix. 299. He adds HDT. i. 20, where ὅκως ἄν is certainly final.
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