Excerpt from Attraction of Mood in Early Latin: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of LatinNotwithstanding the great activity of scholars in the field of Latin syntax during the last half century, the subject of attrae tion of mood in the Latin language has passed almost unnoticed. The reason is not that the subject is already clearly understood. On the contrary, most of the statements in regard to it in the handbooks are, at least in part, erroneous, and confessedly are based upon very meager data. Neither is it a matter of small importance, for at few points does fine feeling for the shades of meaning of moods more affect the interpretation of a Latin sentence than in the usages of this construction. Nevertheless it has been slighted. I find but one treatment of the subject that pretends in any way to be thoroughgoing. Even this touches a very limited field, namely a part of Cicero, does not get com plete data from this, makes little attempt at digesting the mate rial gathered, and uses a method of treatment which is somewhat antiquated. I refer to the program of Franz Peters, 1 published in 1861. The substance of his treatise may be found in Draeger, 2 whose lists are as full and valuable as any yet pub lished on the subject. Draeger's examples are taken mainly from Cicero. The same is true of Kiihner's examples.3 Ziemer should also be mentioned for some suggestive remarks on the subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.