Grammar Handouts #12 - Independent subjunctive
To be completed by October 7, 8 AM
Readings
Read through the following short selections about independent usages of subjunctive:
- Deliberative subjunctive
- Optative subjunctive
- Potential subjunctive
- Hortatory and jussive subjunctives
Sentences
Identify the independent use of the subjunctive in each sentence and translate them in advance of class.
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Liv. 21.4.3: nunquam ingenium idem ad res diuersissimas, parendum atque imparandum, habilius fuit. itaque haud facile discerneres utrum imperatori an exercitui carior esset, Commentary
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Liv. 21.5.14: quippe ubi pedes instabilis ac uix uado fidens uel ab inermi equite, equo temere acto, peruerti posset, eques corpore armisque liber, equo uel per medios gurgites stabili, comminus eminusque rem gereret. Commentary