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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.
[*] 471. In the Attic poets we find a few cases of the simple εἰ in general conditions. E.g. Ἀλλ᾽ ἄνδρα, κεἴ τις ᾖ σοφὸς, τὸ μανθάνειν πόλλ᾽ αἰσχρὸν οὐδὲν καὶ τὸ μὴ τείνειν ἄγαν. SOPH. Ant. 710. So SOPH. Aj. 521; O. T. 198, SOPH. Aj. 874; O. C. 509; AESCH. Supp. 91, AESCH. Eum. 234. For the simple εἰ in future conditions, see 453; 454. For the probable relation of εἰ to εἴ κε, ἤν, ἐάν, etc., see 401.
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