Circe.

Eurylochus solus Circes data pocula fugit,
Quæ nisi vitasset, non tantæ cladis ab illo
Certior ad Circen ultor venisset Ulixes.-OVID.

Amyclides.

Te quoque, Amyclide', posuisset in æthere Phoebus,
Tristia si spatium ponendi fata dedissent.
Qua licet, æternus tamen es.— -OVID.

Hippolytus.

Non vires tamen has rabies superasset equorum
Ni rota, perpetuum qua circumvertitur axem,
Stipitis occursu fracta et disjecta fuisset.
Excutior curru.—OVID.

Ovid's Complaint to the Waves.

Mittere me Stygias si jam voluisset ad undas
Cæsar, in hoc vestra non eguisset ope.-OVID.

Faithful Love.

Thesea Pirithous non tam sensisset amicum,
Si non infernas vivus adisset aquas.—OVID.

1 Amyclides, a descendant of Amyclas, Hyacynthus.

Scylla.

Impia non tragicos tetigisset Scylla cothurnos',
Ni patrium crinem desecuisset amor.—OVID.

Ambition.

Non natum in flamma vidisset, in arbore natas Cepisset genitor si Phaethonta Merops.-QVID.

The Imperfect Subjunctive in the first clause, with an Imperfect Subjunctive in the second, will be generally used to express a supposition which might have taken place, but did not.

The explanation of this is, the more certainly a Past Condition is expressed, the more it shews that the circumstance did not take place. Thus in English, 'If he ran, he would,' &c. implying that he did not run.

A Friend in Need.

Si mea jam navis vento ferretur amico,
Ignoraretur forsitan ista fides.

Thesea Pirithous non tam sensisset amicum,
Si non infernas vivus adisset aquas.-OVID.

1 Cothurnus, the buskin worn by tragic actors: hence stage representation.

2 Cepisset, had contained, had been able to satisfy.

Genius.

Seu linguam causis acuis, seu civica jura
Respondere paras, seu condis amabile carmen,
Prima feres hederæ victricis præmia, quodsi
Frigida curarum fomenta relinquere posses,
Quo te cœlestis sapientia duceret, ires.—HOR.

Slavery of the Mind.

Si pranderet olus patienter regibus uti
Nollet Aristippus,-Si sciret regibus uti
Fastidiret olus, qui me notat.-HOR.

Imitators.

Decipit exemplar vitiis imitabile, quod si
Pallerem casu biberent exsangue cuminum.
O imitatores servum pecus, ut mihi sæpe
Bilem, sæpe jocum vestri movere tumultus.-HOR.

Roman Want of Taste.

Si foret in terris, rideret Democritus, seu
Diversum confusa genus panthera camelo,
Sive elephas albus vulgi converteret ora,
Spectaret populum ludis attentius ipsis,
Ut sibi præbentem mimo spectacula plura,
Scriptores autem narrare putaret asello

Fabellam surdo. Nam quæ pervincere voces

Evaluere sonum referunt quæ nostra theatra.—

HOR.

A Poet's Fear.

Non sermones ego mallem

Repentes per humum, quam res componere gestas
Terrarumque situm et flumina dicere, et arces
Montibus impositas, et barbara regna, tuisque
Auspiciis totum confecta duella per orbem,
Claustraque custodem pacis cohibentia Janum',
Si quantum cuperem possem quoque; sed neque

parvum

Carmen majestas recipit tua, nec meus audet

Rem tentare pudor quam vires ferre recusent.

HOR.

Philosophy.

Si tibi nulla sitim finiret copia lymphæ
Narrares medicis; quod quanto plura parasti
Tanto plura cupis, nulline faterier2 audes?
Si vulnus tibi monstrata radice vel herba

Non fieret melius, fugeres radice vel herba

1 The temple of Janus was open in time of war, shut in time of peace.

2 Faterier: old form of infin. passive.

Proficiente nihil curarier. Audieras cui
Rem Di donarent, illi decedere pravam
Stultitiam, et cum sis nihilo sapientior ex quo
Plenior es, tamen uteris monitoribus iisdem.
At si divitiæ prudentem reddere possent,
Si cupidum timidumque minus te, nempe ruberes
Viveret in terris te si quis avarior uno.—HOR.

Present Subjunctives in both clauses denote a probable supposition.

A Present or Perfect Subjunctive in the first clause may be followed by an Imperative or Future in the second.

Present and Future Indicatives are often interchanged in this construction.

Horace's Farm.

Scribetur tibi forma loquaciter et situs agri;
Continui montes, ni dissocientur opaca
Valle.

Temperiem laudes, quid, si rubicunda benigni
Corna vepres et pruna ferant, si quercus et ilex
Multa fruge pecus multa dominum juvet umbra,
Dicas adductum propius frondere Tarentum.—

HOR.