Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Particle ἄν, Its use and etymology, chapter 425

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Preface to part I GREEK SYNTAX Syntax of the simple sentence Forms of the subject. Copula Omission of parts of the simple sentence Concord Forms of the verbal predicate Mood Defined Tenses Tenses of the Moods Moods The Particle ἄν Preface to part II The simple sentence expanded Multiplication of the Subject Qualification of the Subject Concord of the adjective attribute. The Article

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Its use and etymology Indicative with ἄν Optative with ἄν Subjunctive with ἄν

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The shifting from definite to indefinite is not peculiar to the particle “ἄν”. Other simple demonstratives change in the same way. Compare “τὸν καὶ τόν, τὰ καὶ τά”, and notice especially “τέως” and “ἕως. τέως” is used more frequently without its correlative “ἕως” than with it, so long being for a while, and “ἕως” is sometimes employed after the same fashion.¹

1 A. J. P. iv (1883), 418 note.

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

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