Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Moods, Subjunctive Mood, chapter 376

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

View text chunked by:

section : subsection : chapter
chapter

Table of Contents:

Preface to part I

Tenses of the Moods

Preface to part II

The simple sentence expanded

Multiplication of the Subject

Qualification of the Subject

view as XML

[*] 376. Aorist subjunctive in prohibitions.

The subjunctive is used as the negative imperative or prohibitive of the second and third persons in the aorist.

“μὴ θαυμάσῃς”, PLATO, Rpb. 517C; Do not wonder. “μηδεὶς . . . θαυμάσῃ”, DEM.18.199; Let no one wonder.

ORATORES ATTICI.—There are about 133 instances of the second person and 29 of the third. See A. J. P. xiii (1892), 425.

PLATO, Gorg. 470C: “ἀλλὰ μὴ κάμῃς φίλον ἄνδρα εὐεργετῶν”. Legg. 868 A: “φυγὼν μηκέτι κατέλθῃ”. Rpb. 517 C (see above).

THUC.1.140.4: “ὑμῶν δὲ μηδεὶς νομίσῃ περὶ βραχέος ἂν πολεμεῖν, εἰ κτἑ”. 3.40.7: “μὴ οὖν προδόται γένησθε ὑμῶν αὐτῶν” .

HDT.3. 53: “μὴ δῷς τὰ σεωυτοῦ ἀγαθὰ ἄλλοισι”.

AR. Ach. 496: “μή μοι φθονήσητ᾽, ἄνδρες οἱ θεώμενοι”. Eccl. 588: “μή νυν πρότερον μηδεὶς ὑμῶν ἀντείπῃ μηδ᾽ ὑποκρούσῃ”.

EUR. Heracl. 271: “μὴ πρὸς θεῶν κήρυκα τολμήσῃς θενεῖν”. 273: “καὶ σὺ τοῦδε μὴ θίγῃς, ἄναξ”. Frequent in the tragedians.

THEOGN. 101: “μηδείς σ᾽ ἀνθρώπων πείσῃ κακὸν ἄνδρα φιλῆσαι”.

HIPPON.49: “μηκέτι γράψῃς”.

ALCAE. 44: “μηδὲν ἄλλο φυτεύσῃς πρότερον δένδριον ἀμπέλω”.

HOM. Od. 3.55. 11.251. 15.263: “εἰπέ μοι εἰρομένῳ νημερτέα μηδ᾽ ἐπικεύσῃς”. 22.213-4: “Μέντορ, μή σ᾽ ἐπέεσσι παραιπεπίθῃσιν Ὀδυσσεὺς” | “μνηστήρεσσι μάχεσθαι”.

Il. 5.684-5: “Πριαμίδη, μὴ δή με ἕλωρ Δαναοῖσιν ἐάσῃς” | “κεῖσθαι, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπάμυνον”. 9.33. 522. 15.115. 23.407. 24.568. 778-9.

Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

This text was converted to electronic form by professional data entry and has been proofread to a medium level of accuracy.

Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com

view as XML

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.