§17.
希求法の用法について(目次)
英語原文
The only remaining form of dependent optative is that found in past general suppositions, as εἴ τις κλέψειεν (or ὃς κλέψειεν), ἐκολάζετο, if ever any one stole (or whoever stole), he was (always) punished (462 ; 531).
Here the optative after a past tense represents an original subjunctive after a present tense (11), differing in this from the optative in future conditions (16), which is in an original construction. The late development of this optative appears from its almost total absence in protasis with in Homer (468), where the corresponding subjunctive in protasis is also infrequent. It may therefo be disregarded in considering the primitive uses of the optative. (See 11, b)
For a more full discussion of the relations of the optative to the other moods, see Appendix I.
日本語解釈