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2203. The future indicative is used, especially in poetry, after ὅπως (rarely after ὡς, ὄφρα, and μή) in the same sense as the subjunctive.

οὐδὲ δι᾽ ἓν ἄλλο τρέφονται ὅπως μαχοῦνται nor are they maintained for any other single purpose than for fighting (lit. how they shall fight) X. C. 2.1.21, σι_γᾶθ᾽, ὅπως μὴ πεύσεταί (fut.) τις . . . γλώσσης χάριν δὲ πάντ᾽ ἀπαγγείλῃ (subj.) ““τάδεkeep silence, lest some one hear and report all this for the sake of talkA. Ch. 265. In prose the future occurs with ὅπως in Xenophon and Andocides. This usage is an extension of that after verbs of effort (2211).

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