[*] 396. Optative with ei) and w(s. In poetry we find a simple “εἰ”, the exclamatory “ὡς”. and in one passage an unriddled “βάλε”. ALCMAN, 26.2: “βάλε δὴ βάλε κηρύλος εἴην”. HOM. Il. 10.111: “ἀλλ᾽ εἴ τις καὶ τούσδε μετοιχόμενος καλέσειεν”. 15.571: “εἴ τινά που Τρὡων ἐξάλμενος ἄνδρα βάλοισθα”. 16.559-62: “ἀλλ᾽ εἴ μιν ἀεικισσαίμεθ̓ ἑλόντες” | “τεύχεά τ᾽ ὤμοιιν ἀφελοίμεθα καί τιν̓ ἑταίρων” | “αὐτοῦ ἀμυνομένων δαμασαίμεθα νηλέι χαλκῷ”. 18.107: “ὡς ἔρις ἔκ τε θεῶν ἔκ τ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἀπόλοιτο”. 22.286: “ὡς δή μιν σῷ ἐνὶ χροῒ πᾶν κομίσαιο”.
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