With verbs of _wishing_, _desiring_, especially cupi??, opt??, vol??, m??l??
(conjunctions ut, n?“, ut n?“); as,--
opt?? ut in h??c j?«dici?? n?“m?? improbus reperi??tur, _I hope that in this
court no bad man may be found_ (here ut reperi??tur represents a simple
optative of direct statement, viz. reperi??tur, _may no bad man be
found_!);
cupi?? n?“ veniat, _I desire that he may not come_.
a. The simple Subjunctive (without ut) sometimes occurs with verbs of
this class. (See ?§ 295, 8.) Examples are: velim scr?«b??s, _I wish you
would write_; vellem scr?«psisset, _I wish he had written_.
2. With expressions of _fearing_ (time??, metu??, vereor, etc.). Here n?“
means _that_, _lest_, and ut means _that not_; as,--
time?? n?“ veniat, _I fear that he will come_ (originally: _may he not
come! I'm afraid_ [_he will_]);
time?? ut veniat, _I fear that he will not come_ (originally: _may he
come! I'm afraid_ [_he won't_]).
a. N?“ n??n sometimes occurs instead of ut, especially where the verb of
_fearing_ has a negative, or where the writer desires to emphasize some
particular word in the dependent clause; as,--
n??n vereor ne h??c n??n f?«at, _I am not afraid that this will not
happen;_
vereor n?“ exercitum f?«rmum hab?“re n??n possit, _I fear that he is
unable_ (n??n possit) _to have a strong army.
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