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3350 AE. 307
more than the ordinary use of icat with the also, even meaning1
;
that is to say, it emphasises the sequence of the apodosis, just as
it often emphasises single words or phrases. Similarly 8e may
have been used to mark the adversative character of an apodosis.
3. These points may be illustrated by the parallel between KCU
also, even and ou8e or =
\utfi
not even, also not. In this use 8^ is
clearly not a Conjunction, but merely serves to mark the natural
opposition between the negative and some preceding affirmation
(expressed or implied). Thus it is closely akin to the use in
apodosis, the difference being only that it belongs to a single
word rather than a Clause.
4. It is a confirmation of this view that among the cases of 8e
in the apodosis we never find one in which the protasis is introduced
by the corresponding jjieV.*
Where this is apparently the
case it will be found that the jj-eV
refers forward, not to the 8^ of
the immediate apodosis, but to a new sentence with 8^ or some
equivalent Particle :
e.g.
II. 2. 1 88 ov Ttva jjiV pao-iXija KCLL