ing: "a course, however, which perhaps would bring on some disaster."'38 Cf. also the following: Pliny, Ep. vi. 16. 12: Ibi, quamquam nondum periculo appropinquante, conspicuo tamen, et cum cresceret, proximo, sarcinas contulerat (Pomponianus) in naves.39 Standing alone, as it did, it is perhaps no wonder that forem made no definite and permanent place for itself in Latin. 38 Contrast the aptness of foret in Pliny, Ep. iv. 13. 10: Haec putavi altius . repetenda, quo magis scires, quam gratum mihi foret, si susciperes quod iniungo. 39 There is a similar lack of precision in result clauses that reach into the future; e.g., Pliny, Ep. vi. 16. 14 (negaretur). It is seldom that the future periphrastic is called into play, e.g., Tacitus, Dial. 23 fin. (dicturi sint). |