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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.
[*] 726. The poets, especially Homer, sometimes use ὡς before the optative in wishes. This ὡς cannot be expressed in English, and it is probably exclamatory. It must not be confounded with οὕτως used as in 727. E.g. Ὡς ἀπόλοιτο καὶ ἄλλος ὅτις τοιαῦτά γε ῥέζοι, O that any other may likewise perish, etc. Od. i. 47.See Od. xxi. 201. Ὡς ὁ τάδε πορὼν ὄλοιτ̓, εἴ μοι θέμις τάδ᾽ αὐδᾶν. SOPH. El. 126. Compare “ut pereat telum,” HOR. Sat. ii. 1. 43 .
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