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... conjunctive with av and the relative , shows that the writer is describing an imaginary , and not a real scene ; not a scene which is represented as having really happened , and which the author endeavours to pourtray as going on before ...
... conjunctive with av and the relative , shows that the writer is describing an imaginary , and not a real scene ; not a scene which is represented as having really happened , and which the author endeavours to pourtray as going on before ...
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... conjunctive , a real contingency is implied : when el is used with the opt . , a mere supposition is intimated ; e.g. èàv TOTO Xéyns , if you should say this ' [ as I rather expect you will ] ; ei TOûTO Xéyois , if you were to say ...
... conjunctive , a real contingency is implied : when el is used with the opt . , a mere supposition is intimated ; e.g. èàv TOTO Xéyns , if you should say this ' [ as I rather expect you will ] ; ei TOûTO Xéyois , if you were to say ...
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... conjunctive indicates the immediate , the optative the more distant result ; cf. the analogous passage , EUR . Hec . 1121 . Some examination of the- VIII . IDIOMATIC USAGES OF THE TENSES will elicit similar and still more characteristic ...
... conjunctive indicates the immediate , the optative the more distant result ; cf. the analogous passage , EUR . Hec . 1121 . Some examination of the- VIII . IDIOMATIC USAGES OF THE TENSES will elicit similar and still more characteristic ...
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... conjunctive futurity . But , in a principal clause , the idea of this tense is expressed by the aorist , either leaving out the notion of futurity , or supplying it from the context ; or by the simple future , leaving the notion of ...
... conjunctive futurity . But , in a principal clause , the idea of this tense is expressed by the aorist , either leaving out the notion of futurity , or supplying it from the context ; or by the simple future , leaving the notion of ...
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... conjunctive . 3 Γένεσις . 7 Κάλλιστα , 10 Τὰ λεγόμενα . 13 Παιδαγωγοί . 14 Μαθησόμενοι . 17 Τὰ ἐν παλαίστρα . 4 • Σαφηνίζειν , 8 Επειδὰν 11 Ἐφίστημι , 15 Γράμματα . 18 Πρὸς δὲ τούτοις . 22 Μεταβολή . η Αντί . 21 Διαθρύπτειν . 25 Γαστήρ ...
... conjunctive . 3 Γένεσις . 7 Κάλλιστα , 10 Τὰ λεγόμενα . 13 Παιδαγωγοί . 14 Μαθησόμενοι . 17 Τὰ ἐν παλαίστρα . 4 • Σαφηνίζειν , 8 Επειδὰν 11 Ἐφίστημι , 15 Γράμματα . 18 Πρὸς δὲ τούτοις . 22 Μεταβολή . η Αντί . 21 Διαθρύπτειν . 25 Γαστήρ ...
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