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Past general conditional relative clauses have the optative. The main clause has the imperfect or an equivalent.
ἀεὶ πρὸς ᾧ (= εἰ πρός τινι) εἴη ἔργῳ, τοῦτο ἔπρα_ττεν
whatever work he was engaged in, that he always performed
X. H. 4.8.22, ἔπρα_ττεν ἃ δόξειεν αὐτῷ he always did whatever he pleased D. 18.235, πάντας . . . ὅσους λάβοιεν διέφθειρον
they used to destroy as many as they captured
T. 2.67, ἐθήρα_ ὅπου περ ἐπιτυγχάνοιεν θηρίοις
he used to hunt wherever they fell in with large game
X. C. 3.3.5, ἀνέκραγον . . . ἱκετεύουσαι πάντας ὅτῳ ἐντυγχάνοιεν μὴ φεύγειν they screamed out, entreating all they met not to flee X. C. 3.3.67.
a. An iterative tense with ἄν in the main clause: ὅπῃ μέλλοι ἀ_ριστοποιεῖσθαι τὸ στράτευμα . . ., ἐπανήγαγεν ἄν τὸ κέρας, when the squadron was about to take breakfast, he would draw back the wing X. H. 6.2.28.
Herbert Weir Smyth [
n.d.],
A Greek Grammar for Colleges; Machine readable text [
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Smyth].
