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For years all patient students of Latin had writhed in agonies untold. They had learned long lists of Latin words, with their meanings; they had wrestled in their teens with gerunds, supines, ablative absolutes and distracting rules about the subjunctive mood, and they had tried in vain to take an interest in stately authors far above their understanding. Comenius reversed the whole process.
I have a feeling that if one only shook Jerry a little, he would disgorge them all dates of battles, maxims, memorabilia of all sorts, a heterogeneous mess. He's full to the brim, I tell you, and ready to explode. Suppose he did! How would you like to be hit in the midriff by an apothegm of Cicero, or be hamstrung by the subjunctive pluperfect of an irregular French verb?"
But to the "classy" German hairdresser, English is not so necessary, and the American ladies had reached, as regards their German, only the "improving" stage. In her excitement she confused the subjunctive and the imperative, and told him that he "might" go. He had no wish to go; he assured them so they gathered that his intention was to devote the morning to their service.
'My dear old friend friends, I mean, said Rogers in his fluent and very dreadful French, 'if you only knew what a pleasure it is to me It is I who should thank you for giving me the opportunity, not you who should thank me. The sentence broke loose utterly, wandering among intricacies of grammar and subjunctive moods that took his breath away as he poured it out.
Down they filed, a blaze of variegated color, each squad gaudy in a uniform of its own and bearing a banner inscribed with its verbal rank and quality: first the Present Tense in Mediterranean blue and old gold, then the Past Definite in scarlet and black, then the Imperfect in green and yellow, then the Indicative Future in the stars and stripes, then the Old Red Sandstone Subjunctive in purple and silver and so on and so on, fifty-seven privates and twenty commissioned and non-commissioned officers; certainly one of the most fiery and dazzling and eloquent sights I have ever beheld.
The master troubled his head very little about that; and we still less. We should have been greatly surprised by the novelty and the forbidding look of such words in the grammatical jargon as substantive, indicative and subjunctive. Accuracy of language, whether of speech or writing, must be learnt by practice. And none of us was troubled by scruples in this respect.
Rosc. 33 pro dignitate laudare satis commode. Cf. Div. 1, 127 qui enim teneat causas rerum futurarum, idem necesse est omnia teneat quae futura sint; also the examples in Roby's Grammar, 1558. A. 310, a, 307, b; G. 594, 1, 598; H. 507, II. and III. 2. Some, however, make possit a subjunctive of characteristic or of cause with cui, and pareat a subjunctive by attraction.
AFFERAT: subjunctive because nihil quod = nihil tale ut. A 320, a; G. 633, 634; H. 503, I. QUO IN GENERE: sc. rerum; with this phrase the defining genitive is commonly omitted by Cicero. So below, 45 in eo genere. UT ... ADEPTAM: notice the chiasmus. EANDEM: idem is used in the same way, to mark an emphatic contrast in 24, 52, 68, 71.
I accustomed myself to reflect on elocution and the elegance of composition; exercising myself in discerning pure French from my provincial idiom. I was struck with the word 'parlat', and found a 't' was necessary to form the third person of the subjunctive, whereas I had always written and pronounced it parla, as in the present of the indicative.
He spoke so earnestly that in a moment he had abandoned the subjunctive mood, and was describing the buildings as though they actually existed here the new dormitory, there the chemical laboratory, the gymnasium, the chapel.
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