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Subjunctive Clauses the Aeneid

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  • illa se iactet in aula Aeolus et clauso ventorum carcere regnet.
    present - jussive subjunctive; let Aeolus toss himself about in that palace and let him rule in the enclosed prison of the winds (Neptunus)
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  • sunt mihi bis septem...Nymphae...formā pulcherrima Deiopea, conubio (iungam) stabili propriamque (dicabo)
    Futures: I have 14 nymphs, the most beautiful in form Deiopea, I will join in a stable marriage and I will dedicate as permanent - Juno to Aeolus
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  • -conubio iungam stabili propriamque dicabo-, omnes ut tecum meritis pro talibus annos (exigat) et pulchra (faciat) te prole parentum
    present subjunctives in a purpose clause: so that she may pass all years with you for such great merits and so she may make you a parent with beautiful offsprin
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  • Moriemur inultae, sed moriamur.
    Future indicative to present subjunctive (hortatory); We (I) shall die unavenged, but let us die! - Dido on the pyre
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  • (Hauriat) hunc oculis ignem crudelis ab alto Dardanus, et nostrae secum (ferat) omina mortis
    present subjunctives (Jussive) - Let the cruel Dardanian (Aen) drink this fire with his eyes from the deep, and let him bear the omens of our death with him - D
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  • hoc rogus iste mihi, hoc ignes araeque parabant? Quid primum deserta (querar)? (bewail)
    pres subj (hortatory in a deliberative ?) THIS that pyre, THIS the fires and altars were preparing for me? What should I, deserted, bewail first? Anna
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  • Eadem me ad fata vocasses: idem ambas ferro dolor atque eadem hora tulisset.
    plup subj (optative - wishing) Would that you had called me to the same fates: would that the same pain and the same hour had carried us both with iron. Anna
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  • Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, vivos ducent de marmore vutus, orabunt...describent...dicent
    future indicatives. Others will hammer out breathing bronze more smoothly, they will produce living faces from marble, they will plead cases better,...Anchises
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  • Et quisquam numen Iunonis adorat praeterea aut supplex aris (imponet) honorem? (Impono, imponere)
    future: And does anyone worship the divinity of Juno hereafter or will anyone as a suppliant place an honor on her altars? Juno in soliloquy
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