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2446. After a secondary tense in actual or implied indirect discourse, πρίν with the subjunctive and ἄν is common instead of the optative without ἄν (2449).

““εἶπον μηδένα τῶν ὄπισθεν κι_νεῖσθαι πρὶν ἂν πρόσθεν ἡγῆταιI ordered that none in the rear should move until the one before him led the wayX. C. 2.2.8 (here πρὶν ἡγοῖτο is possible).

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