eum accûsantês, #quasi# Numitôris agrôs înfêstâre #solitus esset#,
I, 28; Is cum îrâtus ad mortem dûcî iussisset mîlitem, #quasi#
(because, as was supposed,) #interfêcisset# commîlitônem, XIII, 65.
NOTE.--These clauses resemble those in 4, as giving the reason ascribed
to some one other than the writer. They show also that the reason is
fictitious, and invented by the person who advances it.
[Footnote I.5: Cf. also Ablative Absolute, _K_ 4.]
[Footnote I.6: These conjunctions are regularly used with the
indicative. They are employed with the subjunctive only when the
writer is indirectly quoting the reason given by some one else.]
_I._ CONCESSIVE OR ADVERSATIVE CLAUSES