MOODS of VERBS. 223 



Vos,. clariffima mundi 



Lumina, labentem ccelo qjjje ducitis annum, 

 Liber, et alma Ceres; vejiro ft munere Melius 

 Chaoniam pingui glandem mutavit arifta r 

 Poculaque invent! s Acheloia miscuit uvis : 

 Munera vejlra cano. 'tuque cui prima frementem 

 Fudit equum magna tellus percujfa tridenti, 

 Neptune : et cultor nemorum c u 1 pinguia Cece 

 Ter centum nivei ton dent dumeta juvenci.- 



Enumerare pofifum qjjje sit in figuris animantium, et quam fi- 

 lers fubtilifque defcriptio partium, quamque admirabilis fabrica' 

 membrorum. Omnia enim qjjje quidem intus inclufa sunt it a nata, 

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

 vitam retinendam non neceffarium. 



Cujus quidem admini/lratio nihil habet in fe quod reprehendi 

 potest ; ex iis enim naturis qvje erant, quod effici potuit 

 optimum effecliun ejl : doceat ergo aliquis potuijfe melius : fed nemo 

 unquam docebit : et siqu is cor rig ere aliquid volet, ant deterius 

 faciei, aut id, quod fieri not potest, defiderabit. 



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

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

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

 be obferved, at leaft with refpect to the two paflages from Ci- 

 cero, that the meaning exprefTed by the fubjoined indicative 

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

 other cafes, is exprelTed by the fubjunctive mood. 



These more particular obfervations, and the well known 

 general fact, 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 perfectly with the account given of the comprehenfive 

 and various meanings of that grammatical mood which is 



called 



