1766. (1.) A subjunctive subordinate to one of the nouns of the verb,
except the perfect infinitive or the perfect participle, follows the
sequence of the verb: as,
#dēsinō quaerere cūr ēmerīs#, _V._ 4, 10, _I cease to ask why you
bought_. #nēminem tam āmentem fore putāvērunt, ut emeret argentum#, _V._
4, 9, _they did not dream anybody would be crazy enough to buy plate_.
#secūrī percussī, adeō torpentibus metū quī aderant, ut nē gemitus
quidem exaudīrētur#, L. 28, 29, 11, _they were beheaded, everybody there
being so completely paralyzed with fear that not even a groan could be
heard_. #Q. Fabius Pīctor Delphōs missus est scīscitātum, quibus
precibus deōs possent plācāre#, L. 22, 57, 5, _Fabius Pictor was sent to
Delphi to find out by what sort of prayers they could get the ear of the
gods_. #cupīdō incessit animōs iuvenum scīscitandī ad quem eōrum rēgnum
esset ventūrum#, L. 1, 56, 10, _the youths were possessed with a desire
to find out to which one of their number the throne was to fall_.
1767. (2.) With a perfect infinitive or perfect participle, the
subordinate subjunctive may be in the imperfect or pluperfect, even with
a primary leading verb: as,
#satis mihī̆ multa verba fēcisse videor, quā rē esset hoc bellum
necessārium#, _IP._ 27, _I fancy I have said enough to show why this war
is unavoidable_. #hunc istī aiunt, cum taurum immolāvisset, mortuum
concidisse#, _Br._ 43, _your gentlemen say that this man, after
sacrificing a bull, tumbled down dead_. #viātor bene vestītus causa
grassātōrī fuisse dīcētur cūr ab eō spoliārētur#, _Fat._ 34,
_a well-dressed traveller will be said to have been a temptation for a
footpad to rob him_. #versābor in rē saepe quaesītā, suffrāgia clam an
palam ferre melius esset#, _Leg._ 3, 33, _I shall be working on a
question that has often been put, whether it was better to vote secretly
or openly_.
1768. The sequence with a perfect infinitive is, however, often primary:
as, #hīc sī fīnem faciam dīcendī, satis iūdicī fēcisse videar cūr
secundum Rōscium iūdicārī dēbeat#, _RC._ 14, _if I should stop speaking
here, I should feel I had made it plain enough to the court why a
judgement should be rendered for Roscius_.
1769. The secondary sequence is used with #meminī#, _remember_, even
when it has the present infinitive (2220): as, #L. Metellum meminī ita
bonīs esse vīribus extrēmō tempore aetātis, ut adulēscentiam nōn
requīreret#, _CM._ 30, _I can remember Metellus’s being so good and
strong in the very last part of his life that he did not feel the want
of youth_.
1770. Sentences with a subjunctive due to another subjunctive or to an
infinitive are put as follows:
1771. (1.) Sentences of relative time express contemporaneous,
antecedent, and subsequent action like corresponding indicative
sentences, with the appropriate sequence: as,
#vereor, nē, dum minuere velim labōrem, augeam#, _Leg._ 1, 12, _I am
afraid that while I wish to make the work less, I may make it more_.
#crocodīlōs dīcunt, cum in terrā partum ēdiderint, obruere ōva#, _DN._
2, 129, _they say that the crocodile, after laying on land, buries her
eggs_. #dīcēbam quoad metuerēs, omnia tē prōmissūrum: simul ac timēre
desīssēs, similem tē futūrum tuī#, _Ph._ 2, 89, _I said that as long as
you were afraid, you would promise everything; the moment you ceased to
fear, you would be just like yourself_. #cōnstituērunt ea, quae ad
proficīscendum pertinērent, comparāre#, 1, 3, 1, _they resolved to get
such things ready as were necessary for the march_. #erat scrīptum: nisi
domum reverterētur, sē capitis eum damnātūrōs#, N. 4, 3, 4, _it stood
written that, if he did not come back home, they would condemn him to
death_ (direct form #nisi revertēris, damnābimus#). #lēgātī vēnērunt,
quī sē ea, quae imperāsset, factūrōs pollicērentur#, 4, 22, 1, _some
envoys came, to engage to do what he ordered_ (direct form #quae
imperāris, faciēmus#). #Venetī cōnfīdēbant Rōmānōs neque ūllam
facultātem habēre nāvium, neque eōrum locōrum ubī̆ bellum gestūrī essent
portūs nōvisse#, 3, 19, 6, _the Venetans felt assured that the Romans
had not any proper supply of ships, and were not acquainted with the
ports in the places where they were to fight_.
1772. (2.) Sentences with independent time retain the independent time
in the subjunctive in primary sequence (1744); in secondary sequence the
present becomes imperfect, and the perfect becomes pluperfect: as,
(_a._) #quamquam opīniō est, eum quī multīs annīs ante hōs fuerit,
Pīsistratum, multum valuisse dīcendō#, _Br._ 27, _though there is an
impression that the man who lived years and years before these people,
Pisistratus, was a very telling orator_ (direct form, #quī fuit#, 1738).
#dīcitur, posteā quam vēnerit, paucīs diēbus esse mortuus#, _Clu._ 175,
_he is said to have died a few days after he came_ (1739). (_b._)
#cōgnōvit Suēbōs, posteā quam pontem fierī comperissent, nūntiōs in
omnēs partēs dīmīsisse#, 4, 19, 2, _he ascertained that after the
Suebans had learned of the building of the bridge, they had sent out
messengers in every direction_.