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310.] 'OTE, 'OHOTE, 'EIIEI, HPIN. 283
21. 265 6Wd/a 8' 6pju?}
may be accounted for by the change from the
Plural to the Singular
:
cp. 283, I, c.
(2) After a Past Tense of a Verb of waiting 6tr6re with the
Aorist Opt. forms a kind of Object Clause as ; II. 7. 415 TrortSeyfjivoi
OTTTTOT' ap' eA.0oi waiting for (the time) when he should come ;
so II. 9. 191., 1 8. 524, and (after jueWres) 4. 334. Cp. 289 (i).
309.] Clauses with eW. The few examples of this use show
the same varieties as with ore. Thus, (a)
after another Opt.
II. 9. 304 vvv yap %' "EKro// e'Aois, eTret &v /utaAa rot
&00L.
24. 226 CLVTLKCL
yap jue KaraKre^etez^ 'A)(iAAevs
ayKas eAoW ejuoz; viov, e7T7)z> yo'ov ef epoz;
Od. 4. 222 6? ro Kara/3po
/feter, CTT^ Kpr)rfjpi /iztyetr;, KrA.
(#) After a Present, in the statement of a supposed consequence
Od. 24. 254
TOLovTto 8e eWas, eiret Aovcratro dyot re,
evSe'/uevat (wc^ ow^ 5 wo^^ *fed^ after
that fyc.).
(c) After a Past tense, in the iterative sense :
II. 24. 14 dAA' o y eirel C^fez> KrA., Od. 2. 105 (=19. 150.,
24. 140) eTn)z> baibas TtapaQtiTo (v.l. eTret).
The use of w is intelligible in the first of these passages (II. 9.
304), since it refers to an event in the immediate future;
perhaps also in 11.24. 227, after an Opt. of concession. But as
to the form eTrf\v see 362.
310.] irpiv. The peculiar way of expressing a condition by a
Negative followed by irpiv ( 297) is transferred to the past, the
Subj. becoming an Opt., in one passage
II. 2,1. 580 OVK e0eAe*> $evyeiz> nplv 7ret/>?}o-air'
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