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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.
[*] 330. Ὅπως ἄν with a final potential optative occurs once in Thucydides, four times in Xenophon, and once in Aeschylus. Τὰς πρῴρας κατεβύρσωσαν, ὅπως ἂν ἀπολισθάνοι ἡ χεὶρ ἐπιβαλλομένη, they covered the prows with hides, that the (iron) hand when thrown on might be likely to slip off. THUC. vii. 65. Ἐδωκε χρήματα Ἀνταλκίδᾳ, ὅπως ἂν, πληρωθέντος ναυτικοῦ ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων, οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι μᾶλλον τῆς εἰρήνης προσδέοιντο. XEN. Hell. iv. 8, 16. (Here πληρωθέντος ναυτικοῦ, if a navy should be manned, stands as protasis to προσδέοιντο ἄν.) Ὅπως δ᾽ ἂν ὡς ἐρρωμενέστατον τὸ στράτευμα ποιήσαιτο, ἐξ ἄλλων πόλεων ἠργυρολόγει. Ib. iv. 8, Ib. 30. Πᾶσιν ἐδίδου βοῦς τε, ὅπως ἂν θύσαντες ἑστιῷντο, καὶ ἐκπώματα. Id. Cyr. viii. 3, Id. Cyr. 33 (one MS. omits ἄν). Τὴν λείαν ἀπέπεμψε διατίθεσθαι Ἡρακλείδην, ὅπως ἂν μισθὸς γένοιτο τοῖς στρατιώταις. Id. An. vii. 4, Id. An. 2 (most MSS. have ὅπως γένηται). SO AESCH. Ag. 364. In these cases the final force is equally strong with the potential.
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