[*] 465. “ἄν [κε”（“ν”）] with Verbs of Saying and Thinking: “τί χρὴ τοὺς τοιούτους προσδοκᾶν ἂν ποιεῖν” (= “ἐποίουν ἄν”), “εἰ μηδεὶς ἐπῆν . . . κίνδυνος”; DEM.21.9. LYCURG.74: “καίτοι οἴεσθε ἄν, εἰ . . . πάντες ἔφυγον, τούτων ἄν τι γενέσθαι τῶν καλῶν ἔργων”. DEM.21.9(see above). PLATO , Phaedo 101 E: “σὺ δ᾽, εἴπερ εἶ τῶν φιλοσόφων, οἶμαι ἂν ὡς ἐγὼ λέγω ποιοῖς”. Theaet. 164 B: “συμβαίνει ἄρα, οὗ τις ἐπιστήμων ἐγένετο, ἔτι μεμνημένον αὐτὸν μὴ ἐπίστασθαι . . ., ὃ τέρας ἔφαμεν ἂν εἶναι εἰ γίγνοιτο”. Tim. 26 B: “ἐγὼ γάρ, ἃ μὲν χθὲς ἤκουσα, οὐκ ἂν οἶδ᾽ εἰ δυναίμην ἅπαντα ἐν μνήμῃ πάλιν λαβεῖν”. XEN. An. 1.3.6: “σὺν ὑμῖν μὲν ἂν οἶμαι εἶναι τίμιος”. 2.1.12: “ὅπλα μὲν οὖν ἔχοντες οἰόμεθα ἂν καὶ τῇ ἀρετῇ χρῆσθαι”. 2.5.16: “ἅμα ἄν μοι δοκεῖς καὶ σαυτῷ κακὀνους εἶναι”. Cyr. 5.4.12: “εἰ . . . ἐπαιδοποιησάμην, οὐκ οἶδ᾽ ἂν εἰ ἐκτησάμην παῖδα τοιοῦτον περὶ ἐμέ”. (The hyperbaton of the “ἄν” is due to the attraction of the verb “οἶδ”（“α”).) THUC.2.70.4: “ἐνόμιζον γὰρ ἂν κρατῆσαι τῆς πόλεως”. 3.42.2: “εὖ μὲν εἰπεῖν οὐκ ἂν ἡγεῖται περὶ τοῦ μὴ καλοῦ δύνασθαι” (461). 7.40.2: “ὡς τῆς γε ἡμέρας ταύτης οὐκέτι οἰόμενοι ἂν ναυμαχῆσαι” . AR. Eq. 407-8: “τὸν Ἰουλίου τ᾽ ἂν οἴομαι, γέροντα πυροπίπην”, | “ἡσθέντ᾽ ἰηπαιωνίσαι καὶ Βακχέβακχον ᾆσαι”. EUR. Alc. 48: “λαβὼν ἴθ̓: οὐ γὰρ οἶδ᾽ ἂν εἰ πείσαιμί σε”. Med. 941: “οὐκ οἶδ᾽ ἂν εἰ πείσαιμι, πειρᾶσθαι δὲ χρή”.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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