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552. A conditional relative clause (like a protasis with εἰ) may depend on an infinitive or participle (with or without ἄν), on a final clause, on a protasis, or on a verbal noun representing the antecedent clause (or apodosis). E.g.

See DEM. xxi. 64 (quoted in 525); PLAT. Ap. 17 D, DEM. xxiii. 48 (quoted in 528); AESCH. Ag. 1434, DEM. iv. 21 and 39, DEM. xxviii. 21 (quoted in 529); PLAT. Euthyd. 302 A, Theaet. 155A, XEN. Mem. ii. 3, 12 , Cyr. i. 6, Cyr. 3, Cyr. ii. 1, Cyr. 31 (quoted in 531). Ὁρῶ σοι τούτων δεῆσον ὅταν ἐπιθυμήσῃς φιλίαν πρός τινας ποιεῖσθαι. XEN. Mem. ii. 6, 29.

Καὶ ἐμὲ δεῖ ἀπηλλάχθαι κατὰ τὰς συνθήκας, ἐπειδὴ τὸ περὶ τοῦ Πρωταγόρου λόγου τέλος σχοίη, i.e. I ought to be released according to what we agreed to do when the discussion of the doctrine of Protagoras should come to an end. PLAT. Theaet. 183 C.

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