[*] 440. a)/n with the Perfect Optative: XEN. Conv. 3.6: “λέληθέ σε . . . ; . . . πῶς ἂν . . . λελήθοι” (“με”); Has it escaped your observation? How can it have escaped my observation (306)? AR. Lys. 252-3: “ἄλλως γὰρ ἂν ἄμαχοι γυναῖκες καὶ μιαραὶ κεκλῄμεθ᾽ ῟ πρεσεντ̓ ἄν” . For examples of the Periphrastic Perfect Optative with “ἄν”, see 288, to which add the following examples: PLATO , Phaedo 76 E: “εἰ δὲ μὴ ἔστι ταῦτα, ἄλλως ἂν ὁ λόγος οὗτος εἰρημένος εἴη”. Politic. 264 C: “ἐν μὲν γὰρ κρήναις τάχ᾽ ἂν ἴσως εἴης ᾐσθημένος” (the reply is: “τεθέαμαι”). PLAT. Soph. 261C: “νῦν δ᾽ ἐπεὶ . . . τοῦτο ὃ λέγεις διαπεπέρανται, τὸ . . . μέγιστον ἡμῖν τεῖχος ἡρῃμένον ἂν εἴη”, We may look upon the strongest redoubt as having been taken.
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
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.