Blog: The Grammar of our Discontent: Ovid, Wishes, and the Virtual Term
By Hilary Lehmann | September 7, 2020
Unattainable wishes for the present or past may be entirely reasonable.
– Smyth’s Greek Grammar, “Wishes” §2156.5
Picture the heroine in the sand, wind-lashed and desperate, cursing the hero who left her behind. She’s Medea, she’s Ariadne, she’s Dido. Each of the three make a similar wish: