LAT102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Salyu, Italian National Olympic Committee, Content Clause
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The latin subjunctive: in independent or main clauses, hortatory a command or urging in the first person. Let us climb parnassus. : jussive a command or urging in the third person. Let him climb parnassus. : optative wishing. Would that he had climbed parnassus. : deliberative used in questions implying doubt or indecision. Should i climb parnassus? : potential used to express possibility or an opinion politely. You might climb parnassus. : in dependent clauses. From latin for beginners, by benjamin l. d"ooge, ginn & company, boston, 1911, pg 193: The latin subjunctive: the subjunctive in independent or main clauses. A command or urging in the first person. A command or urging in the third person. The main verb is in the present subjunctive. Utinam (if only, would that) is optional in all three cases. Wishes capable of fulfillment use the present subjunctive. May the gods love you. (utimam) veniat. (utimam) n veniat.