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449. e)a/n, o(/tan, etc., with the optative.

The particles which coalesce with “ἄν”, such as “ἐάν, ὅταν, ὁπόταν, ἐπειδάν”, rarely forget their belongings, and in good Greek the optative is more than suspicious.

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