241. That indication of the speaker's frame of mind which is given by
the form of the verb is called the "mood" of the verb. All verbs given
so far have been in the "indicative mood", which represents an act or
state as a reality or fact, or in the "infinitive mood", which expresses
the verbal idea in a general way, resembling that of a substantive.
The "conditional mood" does not indicate whether or not the act or
state mentioned is a fact, but merely expresses the speaker's idea of
its likelihood or certainty, or is used in an assumption or conclusion
dealing with suppositions, not with actual facts. The ending of the
conditional mood is "-us". The conjugation of "vidi" in the aoristic
tense of the conditional mood is as follows:
mi vidus, I should see.
vi vidus, you would see.
li (sxi, gxi) vidus, he (she, it) would see.
ni vidus, we should see.
vi vidus, you would see.
ili vidus, they would see.