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A grammar of the Homeric dialect - Wilbourhall.org

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358 SUBJUNCTIVE. [283.<br />

So II. 1 8.<br />

467 TrapeWerai ota ris . . QavpaorveTai (unless<br />

this is<br />

Fut.) also <strong>the</strong> :<br />

Object Clause II. 5* 33 ^apvao-d', oTTTrorepoio-i narr/p<br />

Zeus KVOOS to ope'fr? fight (out <strong>the</strong> issue)<br />

to which <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two Zeus<br />

shall give victory (i.<br />

e. till one or o<strong>the</strong>r wins). The want <strong>of</strong> KCI/ or<br />

ai> is<br />

owing to <strong>the</strong> vagueness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> future event contemplated,<br />

i. e. <strong>the</strong> wish to exclude reference to a particular occasion.<br />

The Relative is sometimes used with <strong>the</strong> Subj. after a Negative<br />

principal Clause where <strong>the</strong>re is necessarily no actual<br />

purpose :<br />

Od. 6. 2O I OVK f-o-O* OVTOS avrjp<br />

. . os Kei> . .<br />

ucrjrcu (v. I. IKOLTO).<br />

II. 23. 345 OVK. eo-0' os Ke' (T e'Aryo-t KrA.<br />

and without Key, II. 21. 103 vvv ft OVK eV0' os ris Oavarov ^vyy<br />

(v. 1. (frvyoi).<br />

In <strong>the</strong>se places <strong>the</strong> construction evidently follows<br />

that <strong>of</strong> ou and OUK &v with <strong>the</strong> Subj. in Simple sentences (OVK<br />

= eo-0' 6s ov fyvyri TL s O<strong>the</strong>rwise we should have <strong>the</strong> uy?7). Opt.<br />

'<br />

( 34, 6).<br />

The Subj. is quite anomalous in<br />

Od. 2. 42 cure TIV' dyye\ir]V arparov ZicXvov cpx<strong>of</strong>Jievoio,<br />

TJV x vfjuv ffa

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