[*] 467. Repetition of a)/n and ke（n). “ἄν” is not unfrequently repeated in the same clause, sometimes in order to resume a distant “ἄν”, sometimes for rhetorical emphasis, especially with the negative or equivalent interrogative. “κε”（“ν”) is also repeated, though rarely, and both “ἄν” and “κε”（“ν”） are occasionally found in the same clause. “ποίαν τιν᾽ οὖν ἥδιστ᾽ ἂν οἰκοῖτ᾽ ἂν πόλιν;” AR. Av. 127 ; What manner of city, then, should you like best to live in (436)? LYCURG.57: “ἐν τοῖς τότε καιροῖς καὶ κατ᾽ ἐργασίαν ἐκπλεῖν, ἡνίκα οὐδ᾽ ἂν εἷς προσκτήσασθαι οὐδὲν ἂν ἐζήτησεν”. ISOC.5.71: “τίς δ᾽ οὐκ ἂν τῶν καὶ μετρίως λογιζομένων ταύτας ἄν σοι παραινέσειε μάλιστα προαιρεῖσθαι τῶν πράζεων”: LYS. [20] 15: “πῶς ἂν οὖν οὐκ ἂν δεινὰ πάσχοιμεν;” (442). PLATO, Apol. 17D: “ὥσπερ οὖν ἄν, εἰ τῷ ὄντι ξένος ἐτύγχανον ὤν, ξυνεγιγνώσκετε δήπου ἄν μοι”. 31 A: “ὑμεῖς δ᾽ ἴσως τάχ̓ ἂν ἀχθόμενοι, ὥσπερ οἱ νυστάζοντες ἐγειρόμενοι, ὀρούσαντες ἄν με, πειθόμενοι Ἀνύτῳ, ῥᾳδίως ἂν ἀποκτείναιτε”. XEN. Conv. 6.2 (442). Cyr. 2.3.6. “γιγνώσκω . . . ὅτι ἐξ ὧν ἂν ἐγὼ τῷ ἐμῷ τώματι ποιήσω, οὐ κριθείην οὔτε ἂν πρῶτος οὔτε ἂν δεύτερος, οἶμαι δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἂν χιλιοστός, ἴσως δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἂν μυριοστός”. 5.2.23. Mem. 1.4.14. THUC.1.36.3: “βραχυτάτῳ δ᾽ ἂν κεφαλαίῳ, τοῖς τε ξύμπασι καὶ καθ̓ ἕκαστον, τῷδ᾽ ἂν μὴ προέσθαι ἡμᾶς μάθοιτε”. 76.4: “ἄλλους γ́ ἂν οὖν οἰόμεθα τὰ ἡμέτερα λαβόντας δεῖξαι ἂν μάλιστα εἴ τι μετριάζομεν”. 4.18.4: “καὶ ἐλάχιστ᾽ ἂν . . . ἐν τῷ εὐτυχεῖν ἂν μάλιστα καταλύοιντο” . 4.114.4. 5.105.2. 6.10.4. 11.2. HDT.3.35: “δέσποτα, οὐδ᾽ ἂν αὐτὸν ἔγωγε δοκέω τὸν θεὸν οὕτω ἂν καλῶς βαλεῖν”. 7.139: “ὁρέοντες ἂν . . . ὁμολογίῃ ἂν ἐχρήσαντο πρὸς Ξέρξεα”. AR. Ach. 214-7: “οὐκ ἂν . . . ὧδε φαύλως ἂν . . . ἐξέφυγεν οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἐλαφρῶς ἂν ἀπεπλίξατο”. Nub. 118. 840. Av. 127 (see above). Lys. 252-3 (440). EUR. Alc. 72: “πόλλ᾽ ἂν σὺ λέξας οὐδὲν ἂν πλέον λάβοις”. Andr. 934-5: “οὐκ ἂν ἔν γ᾽ ἐμοῖς δόμοις” | “βλέπουσ᾽ ἂν αὐγὰς τἄμ᾽ ἐκαρποῦτ᾽ ἂν λέχη”. Heracl. 721: “φθάνοις δ᾽ ἂν οὐκ ἂν τοῖσδε σὸν κρύπτων δέμας”. Ion, 625-6. SOPH. O. R. 446 (463). fr. 673: “πῶς ἂν οὐκ ἂν ἐν δίκῃ θάνοιμ᾽ ἄν”; PIND. N. 9.34-5: “Χρομίῳ κεν ὑπασπίζων” . . . | “ἔκρινας ἂν κίνδυνον ὀξείας ἀυτᾶς”. HOM. Od. 4.732-4: “εἰ γὰρ ἐγὼ πυθόμην ταύτην ὁδὸν ὁρμαίνοντα”, | “τῷ κε μάλ᾽ ἤ κεν ἔμεινε καὶ ἐσσυμένος περ ὁδοῖο”, | “ἤ κέ με τεθνηκυῖαν ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ἔλειπεν”. 5.361: “ὄφρ᾽ ἂν μέν κεν”. 6.259: “ὄφρ᾽ ἂν μέν κ”（“ε”). 9.334: “τοὺς ἄν κε”. Il. 11.187: “ὄφρ᾽ ἂν μέν κεν”. 202 (id.). 13.127-8: “ἃς οὔτ᾽ ἄν κεν Ἄρης ὀνόσαιτο μετελθὼν” | “οὔτε κ᾽ Ἀθηναίη λαοσσόος”. 24.437: “σοὶ δ᾽ ἂν εγω πομπὸς καί κε κλυτὸν Ἄργος ἱκοίμην”.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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