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382. Third Person:

The third person of the deliberative subjunctive is used more commonly when the third person represents the first, or when an action of the first person is involved.

τοιοῦτος . . . μὴ δῷ . . . δίκην”; (= “μὴ λάβωμεν παρὰ τοῦ τοιούτου δίκην”;) DEM.21.35; Shall not such an one get his due? (= Shall we not punish him?)

DIN.1.8:ποῖ νῦν ἐλθὼν δῆμος . . . εὕρῃ τὴν ἀλήθειαν”;

DEM.18.124:πότερόν σέ τις Αἰσχίνη τῆς πόλεως ἐχθρὸν ἐμὸν εἶναι θῇ”; (= “πότερον . . . θῶ”;) 20.117. 21.35 (see above). 22.64. 29.37: “τί σοι ποιήσωσιν οἱ μάρτυρες”;

PLATO, Phileb. 15D:πόθεν οὖν τις ταύτης ἄρξηται πολλῆς οὔσης καὶ παντοίας περὶ τὰ ἀμφισβητούμενα μάχης”; (= “πόθεν ἀρξώμεθα”;)

AR. Pl. 438: “ἄναξ Ἄπολλον καὶ θεοί, ποῖ τις φύγῃ”;

SOPH. Ai. 403-4:ποῖ τις οὖν φύγῃ ποῖ μολὼν μενῶ;

ΟΙ. θύγατερ, ποῖ τις φροντίδος ἔλθῃ
ΑΝ. πάτερ, ἀστοῖς ἴσα χρὴ μελετᾶν

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THEOGN. 772: “τί σφιν χρήσηται” (sc. “Μουσῶν θεράπων” = “Θέογνις” = “ἐγώ”) “μοῦνος ἐπιστάμενος;

HOM. Od. 5.465: “ μοι ἐγώ, τί πάθω; τί νύ μοι μήκιστα γένηται”; (= “τί γένωμαι”;)

Il. 1.150: “πῶς τίς τοι πρόφρων ἔπεσιν πείθηται Ἀχαιῶν”; (= “πῶς πειθώμεθα”;)

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