William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV, Homeric and other Poetic Peculiarities in Conditional Relative Sentences: Subjunctive without κέ or ἄν., chapter 541

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[*] 541. In the lyric and elegiac poets, as in Homer, the form with ἄν or κέ was in good use in these sentences. See

PIND. Py. i. 100 “ὃς ἂν ἐγκύρσῃ” ,
v. 65 “οἷς ἂν ἐθέλῃ” ;

MIMN. ii. 9,

MIMN. iii. 1 “ἐπὴν παραμείψεται” ;

SOL. xiii. 75;

THEOGN. 405,
SOL. 406 “ἃ μὲν ᾖ κακὰ, . . . ἃ δ᾽ ἂν ᾖ χρήσιμα” .

(For ordinary protasis see 469 and 470.) In the dramatists the relative with ἄν is completely established with the subjunctive as the regular form (like ἐάν, etc.) in both general and particular conditions. (See 471.)

Macmillan. London, Melbourne, Toronto. 1889. reprint edition:. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1965.

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