ἄν

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ὅπως τὰ τῶν πολεμίων ἄν τις μάλιστα αἰσθάνοιτο, ἢ ὅπως τὰ σὰ οἱ πολέμιοι ἥκιστα εἰδεῖεν,
these two clauses look like identical but in the first there is ἄν, why?

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I suppose you could read ηκιστ’ αν ειδειεν if you wanted, but I don’t see the need. It all runs nicely enough as it is, and I think it would be pedantic to suggest that ειδειεν represents a deliberative subjunctive.

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I do not think that ειδειεν might stand for a delib subj, here coz this is a primary sequence. The first opt with an, I understand as potential. The second should be potential as well, just somehow it loses its an.
As an afterthought, I think ειδειεν might stand for delib subj as assimilated to the governing opt of ταῦτα δὲ πάντα τί ἂν ἐγὼ λέγοιμί σοι;

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αἰσθάνοιτο and εἴδειεν are so obviously parallel that there’s no need to ponder alternative constructions. As mwh noted, εἴδειεν runs along nicely without another ἄν.

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