ὄφελον: Difference between revisions

|txtha=(for ὠφελον, [[without]] the [[augment]], 2nd aorist of [[ὀφείλω]]; in earlier Greek [[with]] an infinitive, as ὠφελον [[θανεῖν]], I [[ought]] to [[have]] died, expressive of a [[wish]], equivalent to would [[that]] I were [[dead]]; in [[later]] Greek it assumes the [[nature]] of an interjection, to be rendered) would [[that]], [[where]] [[one]] wishes [[that]] a [[thing]] had happened [[which]] has [[not]] happened, or [[that]] a [[thing]] be done [[which]] [[probably]] [[will]] [[not]] be done (cf. Winer s Grammar, 301 f (283); Buttmann, § 150,5): [[with]] an optative [[present]] [[with]] an indicative [[imperfect]], Rev. ibid. G L T Tr WH; [[Epictetus]] diss. 2,18, 15; Ignatius ad Smyrn. c. 12 [ET]); [[with]] an indicative aorist, [[ὄφελον]] ἀπεθάνομεν, Lucian, soloec. (or Pseudosoph.) 1, [[where]] [[this]] [[construction]] is classed as a [[solecism]]). Cf. Passow, ii., p. 603{a}; (Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]] [[ὀφείλω]], II:3).