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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...are anything more than vestiges of an original parataxis. It seems certain that, for the subjunctive, the paratactic stage had been passed centuries before Plautus, just as it had well-nigh disappeared in the Greek of Homer's day. A very few cases occur which may, perhaps, be vindicated as paratactic; but in the main it seems clear that for Plautus and Terence, as well as for Cicero and the later Latin, the great body of subjunctive expressions of the type claimed by Morris as independent (and paratactic) were really felt to be subordinate and dependent.1 1 In his Principles and Methods, Morris replies to the strictures which I (in my Critique) had made upon the attitude above criticised. In this reply he shifts the ground to the question whether the subjunctives in controversy are properly to be called paratactic. But my criticism was not primarily intended to discuss the subject of the nature of parataxis. It was directed essentially to the discussion of the question whether the expressions involved were dependent or independent. I was constrained to decide in favor of their dependence. Whether dependence is consistent with parataxis (as ordinarily understood) is doubtful. Substantive Clauses Developed From The Deliberative.1 A. With Qnin. a) Origin. The origin of these clauses is indicated by Amph. 559, quin loquar, numquam me potes deterrere;8 cf. Cic. Epist. ii, 17, 1, quin decedam, nulla causa est; literally, "Why shouldn't I speak? You can't stop me;" "Why shouldn't I withdraw? There's no reason." It is true that independent deliberatives introduced by quin are rare (see p. 183), but this circumstance is hardly of great significance in view of the many dependent owm-clauses that naturally lend themselves to this explanation. In Cl...
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