§587. Questions in Indirect Discourse
A Deliberative Subjunctive (§ 444) in the Direct Discourse is always retained in the Indirect:—
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cūr aliquōs ex suīs āmitteret
(B. C. 1.72), why (thought he) should he lose some of his men? [Direct: cūr āmittam?]
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.