§16.
希求法の用法について(目次)
英語原文
In future conditions the optative express the supposition in an weakened future form, as compared with the stronger future of the subjunctive and the future indicative.
Compare ἐὰν ἔλθω, if I (shall) go (444), with εἰ ἔλθοιμι, if I should go (455). Often the form of the leading sentence (the apodosis) decides whether a given supposition shall be expressed by a subjunctive or by an optative ; thus in Dem. iv. 11 we have ἂν οὗτός τι πάθῃ, if anything happens (shall happen) to him (Philip), depending on ποιήσετε ; and in the next sentence, reffering to precisely the same contingency, we have εἴ τι πάθοι, depending on two optative with ἄν.
日本語解釈