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§ 431. (1) The Ōrŭtiō oblīquă is sometimes introduced by Verbs which only imply saying; sometimes the idea of saying is only to be gathered from the context. Compare § 399.

{2) The Imperative is never used in Or. Obi. The Indicative is an irregularity very rarely found, and chiefly after dum whilst.

(3) The usage of the Pronouns sē, ĭs, illĕ, in Or. Obi. can only be fully learned from reading. It must not be forgotten that sē retains its usual reference to the subject of a sentence in Or. Obi.

{4) In graphic reports of speeches by historians, etc., the Primary Tenses are often not changed to Secondary Tenses, though the speech is a thing of the past. Compare the sequence of the Historic Present, § 389 (b).

Sometimes Primary and Secondary Tenses are found side by side, e.g., Caes. B. G. I. 14, admīrārētur......sint.

(5) More examples of the Ōrātiō Oblīqua may be found in Caes. B. G. I. 40, 44, 45 ; IV. 16 ; Livy, I. 9, 47, 50, 53 ; XXI. 30, 53, 63.

ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS.

§ 432. Owing to its greater wealth of inflexions, the order of words in Latin is not as rigidly fixed as it is in English, but it is never arbitrary.

Some kinds of words are limited to certain positions, and other kinds of words are generally found in certain positions. But beyond this, the arrangement of the words in a Latin sentence is determined first by the requirements