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[311] ἀπόλοιτο for the “ἀπώλετο” which is normal in Homeric as in later Greek; see H. G. § 300 c, M. and T. § 440. The opt. is in itself merely concessive or potential, without reference to past or present; but the need for a more exact expression of time clearly led early to the prevalence of the indicative. Hence the opt. is almost confined to a few formulae, such as this (repeated in 388), “φαίης κεν, οὐδέ κε φαίης, οὐκ ἂν γνοίης, οὐκ ἂν” (“οὔ κε”) “ἴδοις, οὔ κεν ὀνόσαιτο”, and is much commoner in Il. than

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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