"will have" = "undoubtedly did"

[Wilson Gray]

My memory is somewhat uncertain, but wasn't it once upon a time the
fashion for academics writing historically to write: "... Lampito ...
_would have_ worn 'Doric' garments ...," in cases like this?

-Wilson

On 9/15/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> OK, when did the Brits start doing this ?  Ex.:
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>   2002 Alan H. Sommerstein _Lysistrata and Other Plays_ (N.Y.: Penguin, 2002) xxxv:
>   In _Lysisitrata_, Lampito and her Pelopponesian companions will have worn 'Doric' garments, which were considerably more revealing.
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>   It seems to be a development of OED 32.b mingled with 15.d and strikes me as being quite recent - as well as being very frequent.
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