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Subjunctive in main clause: hortation in the second or third person
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φέρ᾽, ὦ τέκνον, νῦν καὶ τὸ τῆς νήσου μάθῃς
‘’ (Soph. Phil. 300)
The subjunctive in the main clause occasionally signals a command or prohibition in the second or third person. In classical Attic this construction virtually never occurs.