negated optative vs negated subjunctive

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negated optative vs negated subjunctive

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Is a negated optative stronger in force than a negated subjunctive?

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Bert wrote:Is a negated optative stronger in force than a negated subjunctive?
Only context will tell. Is there a particular example you're looking at?
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Iliad 1:301 τῶν ο?κ ἄν τι φέ?οις ἀνελὼν ἀέκοντος ?μεῖο
I don't have a very clear picture of the optative in my mind so when I came to φέ?οις I just wondered what purpose the optative has here. Why was the subjunctive or the imperative not used. (I hope you are not going to tell me that it is just a matter of meter.)

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William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/http://www.scholiastae.org/
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Thank you!

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