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perfedlly ; and accordingly tranflate the thought very \?f ell, 

 without either an imperative or s. particle, by arrangement. 



Were I laid on Greenland^ s coajl^ 

 Were I fold on Indians foil. 



It may be remarked too, that Horace exprefles his quah- 

 fied or conditional affirmation, which is fubjoined to the fup- 

 pofition by a verb in the indicative, not in the fubjuniStive 

 mood. 



Bulce ridentem Lalagen amabo. 

 Macheatb takes the conimon fuhjunElive : 



'Too foon the half year's fight would pafs: 

 And Folly, the potential^ 



/could mock the fultry toil. 

 —. Omtiia novit 



GrcEculus efuriensi in ccelum, jusseris,.ibit. 



A little hungry Greek knows every thing ; he will go to hea- 

 ven, fiouldyoii defire him. This is conditional affirmation, expref- 

 fed by the indicative, and fuppofition by the fuhjunElive mood. 



Ilium et parentis q-rediderim fui 



Fregiffe cervicem. 



I could believe that he had murdered his father. This I con- 

 ceive to be an inftance of the potential moodj if not of the verb 

 credo, at leaft of human thought. 



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