SUBJUNCTIVE SENTENCES
471 The Subjunctive is used to ask what action, or whether some particular action, is likely, advisable, or desired. (Dubitative; negative μή.) Such questions are often exclamatory, calling for no answer.
- a. In the first person:
Tί πάθω; what shall I experience? what will happen to me? (Frequent, in many shades of meaning.) ἀμπλάκω τοῦ σοῦ μόρου; am I to fail of your fate? S. AN. 554. τί φῶμεν πρὸς ταῦτα; ἄλλο τι ἢ ὁμολογῶμεν; what shall we say to this? anything else than to agree? (shall we not agree?) CR. 52 d. τί δρσω; δεύτερον ληφθῶ κακός; what shall I do? shall I be caught in wrong again? S. P. 908. πῶς λιπόναυς γένωμαι; how can I desert the fleet? A. AG. 222. μὴ ἀποκρνωμαι, ἀλλʼ ἕτερον εἴπω; shall I make no reply, but say something else? REP. 337 b. ἀλλὰ δὴ φυγῆς τῑμήσωμαι; shall I then propose the penalty of exile? AP. 37 c. (Cp. τίνος ἀντιτῑμήσομαι; AP. 36 b, the fut. ind. in the same sense.)
- b. In the third person:
Ποῖ τις οὖν φύγῃ; ποῖ μολὼν μενῶ; whither shall one flee? where shall I go and abide? S. AI. 403 f. εἶτα ταῦτʼ οὗτοι πεισθῶσιν ὑπὲρ αὑτῶν σε ποιεῖν; this, then, are these people to believe you are doing for them? D. 22, 64.