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Chapter IV
Section III: Subjunctive, like the Future Indicative, in
Independent Sentences.—Interrogative Subjunctive.
Peculiar Forms of Conditional Sentences: Substitution and
Ellipsis in Protasis.—Protasis without a Verb.
Homeric and other Poetic Peculiarities in Conditional
Relative Sentences: Subjunctive without
κέ
or
ἄν
.
Temporal Particles signifying Until and Before.:
ἕως
,
ὄφρα, εἰς ὅ
or
εἰσόκε, ἔστε, ἄχρι, μέχρι
, until.
[*] 508. In a few irregular constructions, which are only cases of anacoluthon, the speaker adapts his apodosis to a form of protasis different from that which he has actually used. E.g. Ἐγὼ μὲν ἂν, εἰ ἔχοιμι, ὡς τάχιστα ὅπλα ἐποιούμην πᾶσι Πέρσαις. XEN. Cyr. ii. 1, 9. (Here ἐποιούμην ἄν is used as if εἰ εἶχον, if I were able, had preceded. We should expect ποιοίμην ἄν, which is found in one Ms.) Εἰ οὖν εἰδεῖεν ὅτι θεᾶται αὐτοὺς, XEN. Cyr. i ῞εντο ἂν ἐπὶ τοὺς πόνους . . . καὶ κατεργάζοιντο ἂν αὐτήν, if then they knew that she (virtue) sees them, they would rush into labours and would secure her. XEN. Cyn. xii. 22. “Εἰ μὲν γὰρ εἰς γυναῖκα σωφρονεστέραν ξίφος μεθεῖμεν, δυσκλεὴς ἂν ἦν φόνος” EUR. Or. 1132. (Here we should expect εἴη; or μεθεῖμεν may be indicative.)
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