36. τὰ μακρὰ ταῦτα ἀδύνατος. Meno, 94B ἴνα δὲ μὴ ὀλίγους
οἴη̣ καὶ τοὺς φαυλοτάτους Ἀθηναίων ἀδυνάτους γεγονέναι τοῦτο τὸ
πρᾶγμα; Rep. VI. 478A ἐφ᾽ ἑτέρῳ ἄρα ἕτερόν τι δυναμένη ἑκατέρα
αὐτῶν πέφυκεν.
38. ἵνα συνουσία ἐγίγνετο. For this construction see note
on Crito, 44D εἰ γὰρ ὤφελον—οἷοί τ᾽ εἶναι—ἴνα οἷοί τ᾽ ἦσαν.
A secondary tense of the indicative is found with ἴνα and ὅπως
(without ἄν) in final clauses dependent on a wish which can no
longer be fulfilled, or on the apodosis to an impossible protasis:
Goodwin, M.T. p. 120, § 333. The idiom is frequent in Plato and
sometimes corrupted by scribes, e.g. Meno, 89B ἡμεῖς ἂν παραλαβόντες—ἐφυλάττομεν—ἵνα μηδεὶς αὐτοὺς διέφθειρεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ
ἀφίκοιντο εἰς τὴν ἡλικίαν, χρήσιμοι γίγνοιντο ταῖς πόλεσιν—where
perhaps we should read ἀφίκοντο and ἐγίγνοντο. See Cobet's
Variae Lectiones, pp. 102, 359.
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