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[*] 310. Future Optative (= Future Indicative): “ἔλεγον ὅτι . . . οὐ δυνήσοιντο” (= “οὐ δυνησόμεθα”) “μὴ πείθεσθαι τοῖς Θηβαίοις”, XEN. Hell. 6.1.1; They said that they would not be able to refuse to obey the Thebans. DEM. [50]DEM., 56: “ἀπεκρίνατό μοι ὅτι οὐδ᾽ ἀκαρῆ δανείσοι”. ISAE. 6.23: “εἰδότες δ᾽ οἱ ἀναγκαῖοι ὅτι ἐξ ἐκείνου μὲν οὐκ ἂν ἔτι γένοιντο παῖδες . . ., φανήσοιντο δ᾽ ᾁλλῳ τινὶ τρόπῳ, καὶ ἐκ τούτων ἔσοιντο ἔτι μείζους διαφοραί, ἔπειθον κτἑ”. ANTIPHON, 1.11: “ἐπεξίοιμι” (195). PLATO, Euthyd. 283A: “ἐπεσκόπουν τίνα ποτὲ τρόπον ἅψοιντο τοῦ λόγου καὶ ὁπόθεν ἄρξοιντο κτἑ”. XEN. Hell. 2.3.17: “πολλοὶ δῆλοι ἦσαν . . . θαυμάζοντες τί ἔσοιτο ἡ πολιτεία”. Ibid.: “ἔλεγεν ὁ Θηραμένης ὅτι . . . ἀδύνατον ἔσοιτο τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν διαμένειν”. 2.3.56: “εἶπεν ὁ Σάτυρος ὅτι οἰμώξοιτο” (= “οἰμώξει”). 6.1.1. AR. Eq. 776: “οὐ φροντίζων τῶν ἰδιωτῶν οὐδενός, εἰ σοὶ χαριοίμην”. AESCHYL. Pers. 356-60: “ἔλεξε παιδὶ σῷ Ξέρξῃ τάδε”, | “ὡς . . . Ἕλληνες οὐ μενοῖεν, ἀλλὰ . . . βίοτον ἐκσωσοίατο”. PIND. O. 9.115-6: “ἐκέλευσεν διακρῖναι . . . ἅντινα σχήσοι τις ἡρώων” (earliest example).
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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