§461.
前文および後文に現れる希求法について、ホメーロスに特徴的な表現(目次)
英語原文
In the strange protasis, εἰ τούτω κε λάβοιμεν, Il. v.273 and viii.196, the separation of εἰ from κέ might compel us to recognise a potential force, if we could (possibly) secure these ; but the difference between this and the Attic examples of εἰ with the potential optative and ἄν (458 ; 506), and the difficulty of seeing any difference between this and εἰ τούτω λάβοιμεν, if we should secure these, indeed Bekker to read εἰ τούτω γε λάβοιμεν here, and also τόν γ᾿ εἴ μοι δοίης (for τόν κ᾿ εἰ) in Od. xvii.223.
The Homeric use of the optative in present and past unreal condirional sentences has been discussed (438).
日本語解釈