Just so that the water, which is hardly translucent now, be muddied beyond
necessity, it should be noted that the imperfect and pluperfect do not
exist but in the indicative mood (nor have infinitive & participle), and
that the future, although it has infinitive and participle, is found
outside the indicative ONLY in the optative, which is for practical
purposes obsolete in Koine, which by nature has future reference,and which,
I think, appears (future optative) almost exclusively in conditional
clauses in indirect discourse in classical Attic--well, I guess it could
appear in indirect questions as an alternative to the indicative.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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