47. The Optative Mood: Key Terms and Concepts

Relief of the Cave of Pan (north slope of the Acropolis), showing divinities gathered at a rustic altar for the birth of a baby (Dionysus or Ion?). The bottom of the relief is inscribed with the name of the dedicator: Neoptolemos, son of Antikles, of the deme Melite. ca.330 B.C. Athenian Agora Excavations.

Key Terms and Concepts:

• OPTATIVE MOOD AND ASPECT
• –οι AND –αι AT THE END OF OPTATIVE FORMS
• EXPANDED MOOD MARKER –ιη–
• OPTATIVE OF WISH
• POTENTIAL OPTATIVE