[*] 377. Theory of mh/ with the aorist subjunctive in prohibitions. The shifting from imperative to subjunctive in the prohibitive is found in other languages, and some scholars have seen a certain urbanity in the change from the second person imperative to the second person subjunctive in the pungent aorist form; but it is noteworthy that a like limitation is found in Sanskrit, in which the corresponding negative particle mA is prevalently used with a form that answers to the Greek aorist subjunctive.1
1 See C. W. E. Miller, A. J. P. xiii (1892). 422.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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