A Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: helium necessaria essent; but, rex anna, tela, machinas, ceteraqve, qvae in hello necessaria sunt, parari jussit. Obs. 2. The historians not unfrequently use the indicative irregularly in i'-'', .v - relative circumlocutions and definitions, which are yet naturally or neces- .1--i. i. sarily to be...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: helium necessaria essent; but, rex anna, tela, machinas, ceteraqve, qvae in hello necessaria sunt, parari jussit. Obs. 2. The historians not unfrequently use the indicative irregularly in i'-'', .v - relative circumlocutions and definitions, which are yet naturally or neces- .1--i. i. sarily to be understood as members of the idea quoted as held by another, '';' e. g. Scaptiut infit, annum se terlium et octogesimum agere, et in eo agro, de ' Jbo agitur, militasse (Liv. III. 71. In eo agro, de qvo agitur, militavi). Mario magna atqve mirabilia portendi haruspex dixerat; proinde, qvae agitabat, fretus dis ageret (Sail. Jug. 63. Proinde, qvae aiumo agitas, ' i'T.. fretus dis age ). i .-, -J Cj 06s. 3. It may be especially noticed, that the particle dum is often put;py the poets and later writers with the historical present (. 336, Obs. z) ' - ' in the indicative, though the proposition is a member of an idea attributed 1 -i I to another, which is expressed in the infinitive; Die, hospes, Spartae, not VJ i-te hie vidisse jacentes, dum sanctis patriae legibui obseqvimur (Cic. poet.Tusc.;-I. 42). (More accurately; Video, dum breviter voluerim dicere, dictum esse a me paullo obscurius, Cic. de Or. I. 41.) .370. Besides the rules which have been hitherto given for the use of the conjunctive in general, it is particularly to be noticed, . .that the second person of the conjunctive is used of a person, whose existence is only assumed, to express by that means a single un- ' ., defined subject, which we set before us, when we wish to state o something of general application (some one, one). (The conjunctive ' . shews, that the whole statement rests on this assumption.) This form is found in conditional discourse, in hypot...