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perfectly ; and accordingly tranflate the thought very well, 

 without either an imperative or a particle, by arrangement, 



Were I laid on Greenland' s coajl, 

 Were I fold on India's foil. 



It may be remarked too, that Horace expreiTes his quali- 

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

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

 mood. 



Duke ridentem Lalagen amabo. 

 Macheath takes the common fubjunclive : 



'Too foon the half year's night would pafsj 



And Polly, the potential, 



/could mock the fultry toil. 

 Omnia novit 



Grceculus efuriensj in caelum, jusseris,.ibit. 



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

 ven, Jhould you defire him. This is conditional affirmation, expref- 

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



Ilium et parentis crediderim fui 

 Fregiffe cervicem. 



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

 ceive to be an inftance of the potential mood; if not of the verb 

 credo, at leaft of human thought. 



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