§194.
英語原文
No theory of the origin of either ἄν or κέ has yet helped to explain their meaning, however valuable the discussion of the question may have been to comparative philology. It seems to be clear that κέ is the older particle ; it occurs 621 times in Homer while ἄν occurs 155 times ; in Pindar the two are nearly balanced ; ἄν has a preference for negative sentences, being very often attached to the negative ; ἄν is more emphatic, as appears indeed from its fixed accent, while κέ is enclitic ; κέ is much more frequent than ἄν in relative clauses in Homer 1. But, practically, it is still safe to assume that the two particles are used in substantially the same sense in all epic and lyric poetty. In Herodotus and Attic Greek only ἄν us used.
1. See Monro, Homeric Grammar, pp. 265-267. For Pindar, see Gildersleeve in Am. Jour. Phil. iii. pp. 446-455, where may be found a complete enumeration of the passage in Pindar containing either ἄν (30 cases) or κέ (33 cases).
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