[*] 274. me/llw with the Present Infinitive: “οὖτος, τί δράσεις; τῷ πτίλῳ μέλλεις ἐμεῖν”; AR. Ach. 587; Ho! fellow! What are you going to do? Are you going to give yourself a vomit with the feather? (Here the future and the periphrasis are parallel.) LYS.13.88: “μέλλειν λέγειν” . 19.23: “μέλλοντα πλεῖν” , On the point of sailing. 24.15: “μέλλων ἀληθῆ λέγειν” . ANTIPHON, 1.15: “ἀδικεῖσθαι ἔμελλεν”. Ibid. 16: “εἰς Νάξον πλεῖν ἔμελλεν”. PLATO , Phaedo 59 A: “αὐτίκα . . . ἔμελλε τελευτᾶν”. Phaedr. 242 B: “ἔμελλον . . . τὸν ποταμὸν διαβαίνειν”. XEN. An. 1.8.1 (215). AR. Ach. 493: “ἅπασι μέλλεις εἷς λέγειν τἀναντία” (the future is not favored by the iambic metre). Eq. 267 (215). EUR. fr. 459: “κέρδη τοιαῦτα χρή τινα κτᾶσθαι βροτῶν”, | “ἐφ᾽ οἷσι μέλλει μήποθ̓ ὕστερον στένειν”. SOPH. Tr. 756-7: “μέλλοντι δ᾽ αὐτῷ . . . τεύχειν σφαγὰς” | “κῆρυξ . . . ἵκετ”（“ο”). PIND. O. 8.63-4: “ἄνδρα . . . μέλλοντα ποθεινοτάταν δόξαν φέρειν” (in prose “τὸν . . . οἴσοντα”). HOM. Od. 9.475-6 (215). Il. 10.454-5: “ὁ μέν μιν ἔμελλε . . . λίσσεσθαι”.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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