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The Indicative in Relative Clauses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
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1 I agree with Professor Platt (C.Q. V. p. 28) in reading (not
), but not for the reason which he gives, viz. that
= Ajax. A clause with the indicative may follow an incomplete antecedent just as well as an antecedent which is self-contained, though its function differs in the two cases. With Jebb's note in support of σπε⋯⋯ compare his note on 1160 of the same play, where he rightly prefers the indicative. The two passages are parallel—the one with, the other without, an antecedent expressed.
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