Future Perfect Optative

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The future perfect optative is very rare. Still, one can predict forms, like:

     λε/λεγ/σ/οι/μι > λελέξοιμι

These forms are so rare that the future perfect middle or passive optative appears only once (κεκλήσοιτο < κε/κλα/σ/οι/το) in a misogynistic passage from Plato’s Timaeus:

(εἶπεν ὅτι) … διπλῆς δὲ οὔσης τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως, τὸ κρεῖττον τοιοῦτον εἴη γένος ὃ καὶ ἔπειτα κεκλήσοιτο ἀνήρ. And with human nature being twofold, he said that the stronger gender was the one that hereafter would be called ‘man.’

—Plato, Timaeus 42a1-3

A more likely formation is periphrastic, for instance λελυκὼς ἔσοιτο instead of λελύσοιτο.

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