[*] 194. Present anticipating the future. — praesens propheticum. The present tense is used more rarely than in English in anticipation of the future, chiefly in verbs in which the will is equivalent to the deed: “εἶμι”, I go, “οὐκ ἐῶ”, I suffer not, “γίγνομαι”, I am becoming. The present as a vision of the future is called praesens propheticum. “ἐν δὲ μιᾷ μάχῃ τήνδε τε προσκτᾶσθε” (win = shall win) “καὶ ἐκείνην μᾶλλον ἐλευθεροῦτε” (free = shall free), THUC.4.95.2. “τούτων τῶν ψηφισμάτων . . . ἢ μενόντων . . . ἢ ἁλόντων . . . τί ἡ πόλις ἢ κερδαίνει ἢ βλάπτεται”; DEM. [58]DEM., 37. LYCURG.126: “εἰ γὰρ προήσεσθε τοῦτον τὸν καιρὸν . . ., οὐκ ἔστιν ὑμῖν μετὰ ταῦτα δίκην παρ᾽ αὐτῶν ἀδικούντων λαβεῖν: κρείττους γὰρ ἤδη γίγνονται τῆς παρὰ τῶν ἀδικουμένων τιμωρίας”. DEM. [58]DEM., 37(see above). XEN. Cyr. 4.6.7: “εἰ οὖν σύ με δέχῃ κτἑ”. THUC.1.121.4: “μιᾷ τε νίκῃ ναυμαχίας κατὰ τὸ εἰκὸς ἁλίσκονται”. 4.95.2 (see above). 6.91.3: “εἰ αὕτη ἡ πόλις ληφθήσεται, ἔχεται καὶ ἡ πᾶσα Σικελία” . HDT.1.207: “ἑσσωθεὶς μὲν προσαπολλύεις πᾶσαν τὴν ἀρχήν: . . . νικῶν δὲ οὐ νικᾷς τοσοῦτον ὅσον εἰ κτἑ”. 3.155: “ἤδη . . . αἱρέομεν Βαβυλῶνα”. 6.82: “οὐκ αἱρέει τὸ Ἄργος”. 6.109: “ἢν γὰρ σὺ γνώμῃ τῇ ἐμῇ προσθῇ, ἔστι τοι πατρίς τε ἐλευθέρη καὶ πόλις πρώτη τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι”. 8.102: “Μαρδονίου δέ, ἤν τι πάθῃ, λόγος οὐδεὶς γίνεται: οὐδέ τι νικῶντες οἱ Ἕλληνες νικῶσι, δοῦλον σὸν ἀπολέσαντες”. AR. Eq. 127: “ἐνταῦθ᾽ ἔνεστιν, αὐτὸς ὡς ἀπόλλυται”. EUR. Phoen. 884-5: “σύ τ᾽ ὦ τάλαινα συγκατασκάπτῃ πόλι”, | “εἰ μὴ λόγοις τις τοῖς ἐμοῖσι πείσεται”. SOPH. Ph. 113: “αἱρεῖ τὰ τόξα ταῦτα τὴν Τροίαν μόνα” (97). AESCHYL. Cho. 550: “κτείνω νιν, ὡς τοὔνειρον ἐννέπει τόδε”. P. V. 171: “ἀποσυλᾶται” , Ibid. 767: “ἦ πρὸς δάμαρτος ἐξανίσταται θρόνων;” PIND. O. 8.42: “Πέργαμος . . . ἁλίσκεται”. P. 4.48-9: “τότε . . . ἐξανίστανται”.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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