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[*] 575. （Indicative, with negative οὐ.) The relative with any tense of the indicative can be used to denote a result, in the sense of ὥστε with the indicative (582). The negative here is οὐ. This occurs chiefly after negative clauses, or interrogatives implying a negative. E.g. Τίς οὕτω μαίνεται ὅστις οὐ βούλεταί σοι φίλος εἶναι; “ who is so mad that he does not wish to be your friend?” XEN. An. ii. 5, 12. (Here ὥστε οὐ βούλεται might be used.) “Ἀκούσας τοιαῦθ᾽ ἃ τὸν τοῦδ᾽ οὔ ποτ᾽ εὐφρανεῖ βίον” SOPH. O.C. 1352 . So HDT. vii. 46. Τίς οὕτως εὐήθης ἐστὶν ὑμῶν, ὅστις ἀγνοεῖ τὸν ἐκεῖθεν πόλεμον δεῦρο ἥξοντα, ἂν ἀμελήσωμεν; i.e. who of you is so simple that he does not know, etc. ? DEM. i. 15. (Here ὥστε ἀγνοεῖ might be used.) Τίς οὕτω πόρρω τῶν πολιτικῶν ἦν πραγμάτων, ὅστις οὐκ ἐγγὺς ἠναγκάσθη γενέσθαι τῶν συμφορῶν; ISOC. iv. 113. Τίς οὕτως ῥᾴθυμός ἐστιν, ὅστις οὐ μετασχεῖν βουλήσεται ταύτης τῆς στρατείας; Id. iv. 185. So also with the potential optative; as οὐδεὶς ἂν γένοιτο οὕτως ἀδαμάντινος, ὃς ἂν μείνειεν ἐν τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ, “no one would ever become so adamantine that he would remain firm in justice.” PLAT. Rep. 360 B.
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