Asking

Verbs signifying to ask, clothe or unclothe, conceal, demand, deprive, persuade, remind, teach, take two objects in the accusative, one of a person, the other of a thing.

οὐ τοῦτ᾽ ἐρωτῶ σε that's not the question I'm asking you Ar. Nub. 641; χιτῶνα τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ἐκεῖνον ἠμφίεσε he put his own tunic on him X. C. 1.3.17, ἰδοὺ δ᾽ Ἀπόλλων αὐτὸς ἐκδῡ́ων ἐμὲ χρηστηρίᾱν ἐσθῆτα lo Apollo himself divests me of my oracular garb A. Ag. 1269; τὴν θυγατέρα ἔκρυπτε τὸν θάνατον τοῦ ἀνδρός he concealed from his daughter her husband's death L. 32.7; Κῦρον αἰτεῖν πλοῖα to ask Cyrus for boats X. A. 1.3.14, ὡς ἐγώ ποτέ τινα ἢ ἐπρᾱξάμην μισθὸν ἢ ᾔτησα that I ever exacted or asked pay of any one P. A. 31c; τούτων τὴν τῑμὴν ἀποστερεῖ με he deprives me of the value of these things D. 28.13; ῡ̔μᾶς τοῦτο οὐ πείθω I cannot persuade you of this P. A. 37a; ἀναμνήσω ῡ̔μᾶς καὶ τοὺς κινδῡ́νους I will remind you of the dangers also X. A. 3.2.11; οὐδεὶς ἐδίδαξέ με ταύτην τὴν τέχνην nobody taught me this art X. O. 19.16.

Verbs of wishing, asking, and other voluntative verbs may appear in the future where English has the present: τοσοῦτον οὖν σου τυγχάνειν βουλήσομαι I (shall) wish to obtain only so much at thy hands E. Med. 259, παραιτήσομαι δ᾽ ῡ̔μᾶς μηδὲν ἀχθεσθῆναί μοι I (shall) beg you not to take any offence at me D. 21.58. Cp. Lat. censebo.

a. In many cases the use of the future indicates that the wish remains unchanged; and there is no reference to a future act. Sometimes the future appears to be a more modest form of statement than the present.

Verbs of effort include verbs denoting to take care or pains, to strive.

ἐπιμελοῦμαι, μέλει μοι, μελετῶ, φρουρῶ, πρόνοιαν ἔχω, βουλεύομαι, μηχανῶμαι, παρασκευάζομαι, προθῡμοῦμαι, πρᾱ́ττω, πάντα ποιῶ (ποιοῦμαι), σπουδάζω, etc.

a. The same construction follows certain verbs of will signifying to ask, command, entreat, exhort , and forbid, and which commonly take the infinitive (αἰτῶ, δέομαι, παραγγέλλω, ἱκετεύω, δια- or παρακελεύομαι, ἀπαγορεύω, etc.).

b. Some verbs take, by analogy, but in negative clauses only, the construction either of verbs of effort or of verbs of fearing. These verbs signify to see to a thing: ὁρῶ, σκοπῶ (-οῦμαι), ἐσκεψάμην, σκεπτέον ἐστί, τηρῶ; to be on one's guard: εὐλαβοῦμαι, φροντίζω, φυλάττω (-ομαι). See 2220.

These verbs may take μή with the infinitive. εὐλαβοῦμαι and φυλάττομαι take the infinitive when they mean to guard against doing something.

Verbs of will or desire signifying to ask, command, entreat, exhort , and forbid, which usually have an infinitive as their object, may take ὅπως (ὅπως μή) with the future indicative (or optative) or the subjunctive (or optative). The ὅπως clause states both the command, etc. and the purpose in giving it. Between take care to do this and I bid you take care to do this the connection is close. Cp. impero, postulo with ut (ne).

διακελεύονται ὅπως τῑμωρήσεται they urge him to take revenge P. R. 549e, δεήσεται δ᾽ ῡ̔μῶν ὅπως . . . δίκην μὴ δῷ he will entreat you that he may not suffer punishment Ant. 1.23, παραγγέλλουσιν ὅπως ἂν (2215) τῇδε τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τελευτήσῃ they give orders (to the end) that he die to-day P. Ph. 59e, Λακεδαιμονίων ἐδέοντο τὸ ψήφισμ᾽ ὅπως μεταστραφείη they begged the Lacedaemonians that the decree might be changed Ar. Ach. 536, ἀπηγόρευες ὅπως μὴ τοῦτο ἀποκρινοίμην you forbade me to give this answer P. R. 339a.

Verbs of commanding and exhorting (κελεύω, λέγω, βοῶ), asking (αἰτῶ, ἀξιῶ), advising (συμβουλεύω), and other verbs of will or desire of like meaning, take μή.

ἐκέλευε . . . μὴ ἐρεθίζειν he ordered him not to provoke his wrath P. R. 393e, ἔλεγον αὐτοῖς μὴ ἀδικεῖν they told them not to commit injustice T. 2.5, ἐβόων ἀλλήλοις μὴ θεῖν they shouted to each other not to run X. A. 1.8.19, ῑ̔κέτευε μὴ κτεῖναι he besought them not to kill him L. 1.25, συμβουλεύω σοι . . . μὴ ἀφαιρεῖσθαι ἃ ἂν δῷς I advise you not to take away what you may have given X. C. 4.5.32.