CONTRIBUTIONS TO AVESTAN SYNTAX. 583 



' otherwise the woman shall see the fire, otherwise the woman 

 would behold the light of the fire . . . otherwise the woman 

 would grow too weak ' (of. Darmesteter, Le Zend-Avesta Trad, 

 ii. 232 n. 1 1 for this last word. The interchange here between 

 the Subjunctive aiwi-vacndl and the following Optatives is a mark 

 of the lateness of this particular passage.) 



c. Imperative in the Apodosis. 



vd. 8. 17 (yAv. prose) : 



yest noit iipa vi spitania zara&ustra spdnjin sairitsin ca&ru- 

 cahnjni noit spaetom zairi-gaosyni xsvazayacit taba aeta paO-d 

 vivdoayantii. 



' otherwise let them cause to go six times along these ways, 

 O Spitama Zarathushtra a yellow dog with four eyes, or a white 

 one with yellow ears.' 



As an example of a similar Defective Condition in Greek we 

 may cite Aristophanes, Nephel. 1433 : 



Tcpb^ TWJxa fXYj TOTtz' sc ok iiYj, awJTOv 7Z0T atTcdaec. 



Instances are not lacking in the Avesta of conditional sentences 

 which are not introduced by any conditional particle or pronoun 

 whatsoever. As an example we may cite : 



vd. 5. 1-2 (yAv. prose) : 



fia tat para-irid-yeiti avi jqfnavo raonqni a tat in37'3-fdni ii&- 

 vazaite Jiaca barjsnavo gahnnqin avi jqfnavo raonqin. . . . nd 

 tat frasusaiti haca jqfnavo raonqin avi bar^mavo gairinqm upa 

 tqm vanqni aeiti yqm ho mdrdfo ad-re aesmqn isaiti . . . kd he 

 asti cida. 



' a man perishes in the depths of the valleys ; a bird goes from 

 the heights 01 the mountains to the depths of the valleys ; . . . 

 a man proceeds from the depths of the valleys to the heights of 

 the mountains ; he comes to that tree where the bird is ; he 

 wishes fuel for the fire ; . . . what is his penalty ? ' 



The same type of sentence is found in other languages as well. 

 Cf for instance a Latin example, where conditions with and with- 

 out a conditional particle stand side by side, in Juvenal, 3. 100- 

 lOi : 



