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The document discusses the dynamic optative in Homer, highlighting its various meanings and types of modality, including deontic, epistemic, and dynamic. It emphasizes the complexity of translating the optative, which can express ability, permission, and root possibility, and suggests that the traditional binary classification of modality may be insufficient. The conclusion proposes an improved understanding of modality that includes fuzzy edges and sub-categories, indicating that the optative can convey me

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