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cum follows ianique...subibat, 865-6 being more or less parenthetic.

870. The verb 'he cried' is omitted as often.

Some of the older commentators read VI. 1-2 after 871. They would do in either place: but they are better where they stand. It is more like V. to make the book end with the touch of sorrow.

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USES OF THE SUBJUNCTIVE.

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SCHEME OF THE USES OF THE LATIN SUBJUNCTIVE, WITH REFERENCES TO THIS BOOK.

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Past jussive: maneres 'you ought to have stood firm'

[no instance]

(Jussive) [58, 59, 70, 350, 788, &c.]

(b) indirect:

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poscamus velit, 'let us ask him to consent' [60; so 163, 550, 717]

(c) interrogative: [Dubitative or Deliberative]

I. direct: quid faciam 'what am I to do?' [850]

2. indirect: docebam quid faceret 'I told him what to do' [702]

FINAL (Purpose)

(a) ut, &c.:

vigilo, ne facias 'I watch that you may not do it' [no instance] oro ut facias 'I pray you to do it' [no instance]

(b) qui: mitto qui faciat 'I send a man to do it' [131, 391, 489] (c) with dum, priusquam (implying purpose)

maneo dum faciat 'I wait till he does' [no instance]

3. CONSECUTIVE (Result)

4.

(a) ut: tantum est ut timeam 'it is so great that I fear' [no instance]

(b) qui: non is sum qui faciam 'I am not the man to do it' [29]

CONDITIONAL

(a) Principal verb (apodosis)

faciam, fecerim 'I would do' [18]

facerem, fecissem 'I would have been doing, have done' [54, 232, 400]

vivid present in narrative, for imperf. 326

(b) Dependent verb (protasis)

si facias (feceris) if you were to do' [17, 64, 347]

si faceres (fecisses) if you had been doing (done)' [51, 234, 356,

398, 411]

vivid present, 325

indicative apodosis, 347, 355

5. CAUSAL

(a) cum 'since': cum faciat 'since he does' [no instance]

(b) qui: culpo te qui facias 'I blame you for doing' [624]

(c) cum 'when' (impf. and plupf.): cum facerem 'when I was doing' [805-807]

6. CONCESSIVE

(a) quamvis, cum, &c. : quamvis faciat though he does' [810]
(b) qui: is qui iuvenis esset norat' 'he knew though so young'
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7. ORATIO OBLIQUA

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(a) statement: dixit factum quod vellent 'he said what they wished was done' [no instance]

(so virtually oblique) irascor quod facias 'I am angry on the ground that you do it' [621, 651]

(b) question

nescio quis sis 'I don't know who you are' [4, 6, 475-6, 748, 790]

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These are all conveniently called oblique petitions; but the subjunctives can be further analysed under the heads given.

[This list includes all the common uses of the Latin subjunctive.]

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