Chapter 588Allen and Greenough's Latin GrammarDickinson CollegeChristopher Francese
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All Imperative forms of speech take the Subjunctive in Indirect Discourse:—
reminīscerētur
veteris incommodī
;
(
B. G. 1.13
),
remember
(said he)
the ancient disaster.
[Direct:
reminīscere
.]
fīnem
faciat
(
id
. 1.20),
let him make an end.
[Direct:
fac
.]
ferrent
opem,
adiuvārent(Liv. 2.6)
,
let them bring aid, let them help.
This rule applies not only to the Imperative of the direct discourse, but to the Hortatory and the Optative Subjunctive as well.
Though these subjunctives stand for independent clauses of the direct discourse, they follow the rule for the sequence of tenses, being in fact dependent on the
verb of saying
etc. (cf. §§
483
, 585).
A Prohibition in the Indirect Discourse is regularly expressed by
nē
with the present or imperfect subjunctive, even when
nōlī
with the infinitive would be used in the Direct: as,—
nē perturbārentur(B. G. 7.29)
,
do not
(he said)
be troubled.
[Direct:
nōlīte perturbārī
. But sometimes
nōllet
is found in Indirect Discourse.]