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383. Substitutes for the deliberative subjunctive.

Instead of the subjunctive, we find the future also (268), or “δεῖ, χρή” with the infinitive, or the verbal in -“τέον”.

τί δῆτα δεῖ σκοπεῖν”; SOPH. Ph. 428 (cf. O. R. 364). “ἄγε δή, τί χρὴ δρᾶν;AR. Av. 809 (cf. vv. 812. 814. 817). “ἄγε δή, τί νῷν ἐντευθενὶ ποιητέον”; AR. Pax 922 (cf. Av. 1640).

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