[B-Greek] DECOISQE in Basil
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Sun Jun 6 22:03:13 EDT 2004
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Will do!
> DECOISQE is an optative form: present optative second person
> plural middle; depending on the context it may mean "May you
> receive ..." as a sort of polite imperative, or it could be
> part of a conditional formula, but one would need to see the
> context of its usage in order to be clear about it.
Thanks Carl and Dirk! I eventually also worked out it was optative (seems
Basil uses them a bit). My Wenham introductory grammar doesn't really have
much about optative, but I found the conjugation for the optative in the
front of my Moulton analytical lexicon.
Seemed to be part of a conditional formula I think. Sentence starts with EI
MEN OUN, and apodosis seems to be ESESQE; then there is EI DE MH followed by
DE MEMNHSQE. Looking through grammatical notes in perseus, the second part
seems to fit the situation of 'future less vivid conditions'. I'm not sure
why the ESESQE in the first part is future indicative, and not optative as
well. Is this a standard kind of construction?
Craig Johnson
Brisbane, Australia
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