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In a future post, time permitting, I might go into these issues and also the question of the prophetic perfect and the precative perfect as poetic usages of SC2, but this necessarily brief survey gives the general idea.

—Ralph the Sacred River

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Suppliant; beseeching; expressing an entreaty or a desire: as, the precative mode. This is not to be called an imperative sentence, … but rather, if I may use the word, 'tis a sentence precative or optative. Harris, Hermes, i. 2.

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In a future post, time permitting, I might go into these issues and also the question of the prophetic perfect and the precative perfect as poetic usages of SC2, but this necessarily brief survey gives the general idea. — Ralph the Sacred River
"odd" uses of SC1, such as the precative perfect or the prophetic perfect, are claimed to appear in poetry. — Ralph the Sacred River