Throughout the Greek classical period the moods are maintained, but in the period of the [Greek: koine] the optative occurs less and less and finally disappears.
The future optative was also a new formation, betraying its origin in the fact that it is almost entirely limited to Oratio Obliqua.
The Optative Subjunctive occurs in expressions of wishing.
The optative mood; also, a verb in theoptative mood.
In an optative manner; with the expression of desire.
The Imperative and Optative moods clearly do not convey assertions at all, while the Subjunctive can only figure as a subordinate member of some assertion.
The representative trustees are appointed for five years, and the co-optative trustees for seven years.
The co-optative trustees must be persons residing or carrying on business in the parish of Kensington, and are to be provisionally appointed by the trustees, which appointment must be approved by the Charity Commissioners before it is valid.
Possibility was symbolized by the attachment of the suffix -ya to the stem, probability by the attachment of -a and -a, and in this way the optative and conjunctive moods first arose.
The argument would not indeed be conclusive, because though the sentences are in the optative mood, there would be nothing to show on what, or on whom, the speaker relied for the fulfilment of his wish.
Optative sentences, however, in which the community could not join, in which no one but the person who framed them could take part, could not be addressed to the god of the community.
Some of these optative sentences however, were such that the community as a whole could join in them; and they were potentially, and became actually, prayers to the god of the community.
I must lie down" is in a form which has usually a cohortative or optative force, and is by some supposed to have that meaning here, and to express trust which is willing to lie down even in a lion's den.
It may be sufficient to say that the adherence throughout to the optative rendering, admitted by all in ver.
Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present.
In the Greek language this is expressed by a difference of mood; the subjunctive being the construction equivalent to may, the optative to might.
Should [Greek: tuptoimi] be reduced to a past tense, or verberarem be considered an optative mood.
The present writer has no hesitation in stating his belief, that all the phaenomena explicable by the assumption of an optative mood are equally explicable by an expansion of the subjunctive, and a different distribution of its tenses.
Neither the subjunctive nor the optative has any signs of mood at all, except the negative one of the absence of the augment.
Defn: The optative mood; also, a verb in the optative mood.
Defn: In an optative manner; with the expression of desire.
Defn: Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present.
His first suspicion of this arose when he was about four years old.
By such attention and perseverance, what may not man effect!
His Face, directed towards the heavens, prepares us to expect that dignified expression which is so legibly inscribed upon his features; and from the countenance of man we may judge of his important destination, and high prerogatives.
I had often heard from others that he could discern the form and magnitude of all objects very distinctly, but could not distinguish colours.
The trend of sequence is from the primary tenses of the indicative through subjunctive and optative in that order to the past tenses of the indicative.
Latin (Hale and Buck's Latin Grammar, 459) there is not optative in use, and the above distinction in modes no longer exits.
In Greek the subjunctive in dependent clauses is treated (usually) as though it were a primary mode: the optative as though it were a secondary mode.
If the supposition is in the past time, the if-clause will have the optative with εἰ and in the conclusion will stand the imperfect indicative or some form denoting past repetition, e.
Pure final clauses (expressing purpose or motive) take the subjunctive when dependent on primary tenses, the optative when dependent on secondary tenses.
