found: Work cat.: 2003354753: Witting, P. De usu coniunctivi et optativi in enuntiationibus secundariis apud epicos Graecos, 1867.
found: Smyth, H.W. Greek grammar, c1956(optative: one of four moods in Greek)
found: OED WWW site, June 13, 2007(optative mood (also mode): the mood or form of the verb of which a prominent function is the expression of wish or desire, as in ancient Greek. With reference to the Indo-European verb modern scholarship reconstructs an optative mood which probably expressed a wish, but which also could have potential value. Vedic Sanskrit and ancient Greek preserve a contrast between the optative and the subjunctive moods, while other Indo-European languages (including Germanic) mostly formed their so-called subjunctive mood from the forms of the optative or from a combination of optative and subjunctive forms. The term has also been applied to syntactical forms expressing the sense of the Greek optative mood)
found: Wikipedia WWW site, June 13, 2007(Optative mood: grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope. Greek (Ancient and to some extent Koine), Albanian, Georgian, Old Prussian, Sanskrit, and Turkish are examples of languages with an optative mood)
