Will

Verbs of will or desire (1991) regularly take the present or aorist infinitive not in indirect discourse; but in some cases we find the future infinitive by assimilation to indirect discourse through the analogy of verbs of promising, etc. (1868). So with βούλομαι, ἐθέλω wish, λέγω meaning command, δέομαι ask, ἐφῑ́εμαι desire and some others (even δύναμαι am able) that have a future action as their object. Thus, ἐφῑέμενοι ἄρξειν being desirous to gain control T. 6.6, ἀδύνατοι ἐπιμελεῖς ἔσεσθαι unable to be careful X. O. 12.12. διανοοῦμαι may follow the analogy of μέλλω (1959): τὸν πόλεμον διενοοῦντο προθῡ́μως οἴσειν they intended to carry on the war with zeal T. 4.121. In these and similar cases the future is employed to stress the future character of the action. Some editors would emend many of these futures.

μή is used with the infinitive introduced by verbs of will or desire (1991) or by verbs expressing activity to the end that something shall or shall not be done; as τὴν Κέρκῡραν ἐβούλοντο μὴ προέσθαι they wished not to give up Corcyra T. 1.44, φυλακὴν εἶχε μήτ᾽ ἐκπλεῖν . . . μηδένα μήτ᾽ ἐσπλεῖν he kept guard against any one either sailing out or in T. 2.69.

Several verbs of will or desire take ὅπως with the future or the subjunctive (verbs of effort, 2211, 2214); or μή with the subjunctive (verbs of fear, 2225); some take the participle (2123 ff.).

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.

οὐ is used after verbs of will or desire only when it is attached to the leading verb or to some particular word; when it marks a contrast inserted parenthetically; where a compound negative takes up οὐ used with the leading verb; and when οὐδείς may be resolved into οὐ and τὶς, οὐ going with the leading verb. Examples in 2738.