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[*] 307. The optative as the representative of the indicative in oratio obliqua after a past tense ordinarily represents the corresponding tenses of the indicative from the point of view of the speaker. Present Optative (= Present Indicative): “ἔλεγεν ὅτι εἰ . . . βλαβερὰ τῇ Λακεδαίμονι πεπραχὼς εἴη” (= “πέπραχε”), “δίκαιος εἴη” (= “δίκαιός ἐστι”) “ζημιοῦσθαι”, XEN. Hell. 5.2.32; He said that if he had (has) done what was damaging to Lacedaemon, he deserved (deserves) to be punished. LYS.12.6: “ἔλεγον . . . ὡς εἶέν τινες τῇ πολιτείᾳ ἀχθόμενοι” . PLATO, Euthyd. 276E: “ἀπεκρίνατο ὅτι μανθάνοιεν οἱ μανθάνοντες ἃ οὐκ ἐπίσταιντο”. XEN. Hell. 5.2.32 (see above). HDT.1.83: “ἦλθε ἄλλη ἀγγελίη, ὡς ἡλώκοι τὸ τεῖχος . . . καὶ ἔχοιτο Κροῖσος ζωγρηθείς”. SOPH. Tr. 161-2: “εἶπε μὲν λέχους ὅ τι” | “χρείη μ᾽ ἑλέσθαι κτῆσιν”. HOM. Only after interrogatives. Od. 15.423: “εἰρώτα δὴ ἔπειτα τίς εἴη καὶ πόθεν ἔλθοι”. 17.368.1
1 A. J. P. iv (1883), 419.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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