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After verbs meaning to consider, plan , and try ὄπως or ὡς with the subjunctive (with or without κέ) or optative is used by Homer, who does not employ the future indicative in object clauses denoting a purpose. Thus, φράζεσθαι . . . ὅππως κε μνηστῆρας . . . κτείνῃς
consider how thou mayest slay the suitors
α 295, πείρα_ ὅπως κεν δὴ σὴν πατρίδα γαῖαν ἵκηαι
try that thou mayest come to thy native land
δ 545. Here ὅπως with the future indicative would be the normal Attic usage.
Herbert Weir Smyth [
n.d.],
A Greek Grammar for Colleges; Machine readable text [
info] [
word count] [
Smyth].
