You might add to the pot of injunctions the not so very uncommon MH +
future indicative, which is, I think, a remnant of a classical construction
wherein we have MH + future indicative in a subordinate clause introduced
by hOPWS and perhaps an imperative saying something like "be careful," or
"watch out."
Present imperative with MH is, I think, the standard injunction not to do
something: e.g. John 20:17, where Jesus says to Mary Magdalene, MH MOU
hAPTOU (about which we have had much conversation, as I recall). The aorist
subjunctive with MH is much more emphatic. If Jesus says to Mary, "Don't be
clinging to me," in the above cited verse, but a TAUTA MH POIHSHiS is more
like, "Don't EVER do that!"--for those with Latin, it's the equivalent of a
Latin perfect 2 sg. subjunctive, one of my favorite examples of which is
from an ode of Horace: TU NE QUAESIERIS, "You must not ever ask ..."
ATR does have some gems, doesn't he?
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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