618 Ὅστις Clauses take all the forms of Ὅς Clauses ([615](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-615.html), [616](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-616.html)), and the modes have the same force. But though
the antecedent is usually indefinite, the indicative ([617](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-617.html))
is more frequent than in Ὅς Clauses:
- a. Subjunctive: ἅπᾱς δὲ τρᾱχὺς ὅστις ἂν νέον
κρατῇ and every one is harsh that's new in power.
A. PB. 35. σὺν μῖν ὅτι ἂν δεῄ πείσομαι with yοu I
will suffer whatever we must. AN. I. 3, 5.
Without ἄν: καλόν τοι γλῶσσʼ ὅτῳ πιστὴ παρῇ it is a fine
thing, whoever has a trusty tongue. E. IT. 1064.
- b. Optative: οὕστινας χρείη ἄρχειν παρήγγελλον they gave orders what men should hold office.
L. 12, 44. αἰσχρὸν μῖν καὶ ἡντινοῦν δίκην ἀπολιπεῖν
ἥντινά τις βούλοιτο παρὰ τούτων λαμβάνειν it is
shameful for you that any (penalty) whatever should
be lacking which any one might wish to exact from these
men. L. 12, 84. (Here the optative hightens to the
utmost the inclusiveness of the expression--the most
unlikely wish could not go too far.)
- c. Indicative where subjunctive or optative would have
been appropriate:
Ὅστις ζῆν ἐπιθῡμεῖ, πειρσθω νῑκᾶν whoever is eager to
live, let him try to conquer. AN. III. 2, 39. παρέσχον ἐμαυτὸν ὅ
τι βούλεσθε χρῆσθαι I offered myself for you to treat in
whatever way you will. L. 7, 40.