2112. The apodosis is sometimes represented by the accusative of
exclamation (1149), or the vocative: as,
#mortālem graphicum, sī servat fidem#, Pl. _Ps._ 519, _O what a pattern
creature, if he keeps his word_. #ō miserum tē, sī intellegis,
miseriōrem, sī nōn intellegis, hoc litterīs mandārī#, _Ph._ 2, 54,
_wretched man if you are aware, more wretched if you are not aware, that
all this is put down in black and white_. #inimīce lāmnae, Crīspe
Sallustī, nisi temperātō splendeat ūsū#, H. 2, 2, 2, _thou foe to
bullion, Crispus Sallustius, so it shine not with tempered use_. Also
the future participle in poetry and in prose from Livy on.
2113. The verb of the apodosis, or the entire apodosis, is often
omitted. In the latter case an appended verb might easily be mistaken
for the apodosis.
#quid sī caelum ruat?# T. _Hau._ 719, _what if the sky should fall?_
#quō mihi fortūnam, sī nōn concēditur ūtī?# H. _E._ 1, 5, 12, _why
wealth for me, if wealth I may not use?_ #nisi restituissent statuās,
vehementer minātur#, _V._ 2, 162, _he threatens vengeance dire, if they
did not put the statues back in their place_. #quae supplicātiō sī cum
cēterīs cōnferātur, hoc interest#, _C._ 3, 15, _if this thanksgiving be
compared with all others, there would be found the following
difference_. #nōn edepol ubi terrārum sim sciō, sī quis roget#, Pl.
_Am._ 336, _upon my word I don’t know where on earth I am, if anyone
should ask_. #sī Valeriō quī crēdat, quadrāgintā mīlia hostium sunt
caesa#, L. 33, 10, 8, _if anybody believe such a man as Valerius, there
were forty thousand of the enemy slain_. A clause with #sī# or #nisi# is
often used parenthetically: as, #sī placet#, #sī vidētur#, #sīs#,
#sultis#, _if you please_, #sī quaeris#, _if you must know_, _in fact_,
#sī dīs placet#, _please heaven_, #nisi mē fallit#, _if I am not
mistaken_, &c., &c. For wishes introduced by #ō sī#, without an
apodosis, see 1546.
2114. The apodosis is sometimes expanded by inserted expressions. So
particularly by #vereor nē#, equivalent to #fortasse# (1958), #nōn
dubitō quīn#, to #profectō# (1986), or a form of #sum# with a relative
pronoun: as,
#quae cōnētur sī velim commemorāre, vereor nē quis exīstimet mē causam
nōbilitātis voluisse laedere#, _RA._ 135, _if I should undertake to set
forth his high and mighty schemes, possibly it might be thought that I
wished to damage the cause of the conservatives_. #sī tum P. Sēstius
animam ēdidisset, nōn dubitō quīn aliquandō statua huic statuerētur#,
_Sest._ 83, _if Sestius had given up the ghost then, a statue would
doubtless at some day have been set up in his honour_. #quod ille sī
repudiāsset, dubitātis quīn ē̆ī vīs esset adlāta?# _Sest._ 62, _if he
had rejected this, have you any doubt that violent hands would have been
laid on him?_ #sescenta sunt quae memorem, sī sit ōtium#, Pl. _Aul._
320, _there are a thousand things that I could tell, if I had time_.
2115. For expressions of trial, hope, or expectation, followed by a
conditional protasis with #sī#, see 1777.