MOODS of FERB S. 223 



VoSy clarijjima mundi 



Lumina, lahentem ccelo qjcjje ducitis annum, ' 



Liber, et alma Ceres; vejlro fi munere T'ellus 

 Chaoniam pingui glandein mutavit arijiuy 

 Pocidaque invent is Acheloia MiscuiT uvis : 

 Miinera vejlra cano. Tuque cui prima frementem 

 FuDiT equum magno tellus percujfa tridenti, 

 Neptune : et cult or nemorum cui pinguia Cea 

 Ter centum nivei tondent dumeta juvenci. 



Enumerare pojfum qjsm sit in figuris ajiimantium, et quam Jo- 

 lers fiibtilijque defcriptio partium, quamque admirahilis fabrica 

 membrorum. Omnia enim Q^uiE quidem intus inchifa sunt it a nata, 

 at que it a locata funt, ut nihil eorum fupervacaneum siT, nihil ad 

 vitam retinendam non necejfarium. 



Cujus quidem adminijiratio nihil habet in fe quod reprehendi 

 POTEST J ex iis enim naturis qvje 2rant, quod ej^ci potuit 

 optimum effe5lu7n ejl : doceat ergo aliquis potuijje melius : fed nemo 

 unquam docehit : et siqvis corrigere aliquid volet, ant deterius- 

 faciet, aut idy quod feri not potest, defiderabit. 



In thefe paflages, the fubjoined verbs are marked in capi- 

 tals. They are to the number of feventeen ; yet of them no 

 lefs than twelve are put in the indicative mood. And it may 

 be obferved, at leafl with refpedl to the two paflages from Ci- 

 cero, that the meaning exprefled by the fubjoined indicative 

 is not diftinguifhable, in feveral cafes, from that which, in 

 other cafes, is expreifed by the fubjundlive mood. 



These more particvilar obfervations, and the well known 

 general fadl, that, in our own language, we find means to 

 difpenfe with the ufe of a peculiar grammatical mood, to de- 

 note barely the circumftance of being fubjoined, I apprehend 

 coincide perfedlly with the account given of the comprehenfive 

 and various meanings of that grammatical mood which is 



called 



