people. The following is from a speech of a freedman called Echion: (Petronius) 'I've already killed three of his goldfinches, and I said that a weasel ate them' Expressions with In addition, various expressions such as 'it happened that', 'he brought it about that', etc. are followed by an -clause with the subjunctive. However, these are generally classified in grammar books as a type of consecutive clause, rather than . The negative is . (Nepos) 'it happened by chance that some ambassadors of King Prusias were dining in Rome' (Nepos) 'he arranged that he should be sent to Spain as commander with an army' (De Bello Hispaniensi) 'if only the immortal gods had brought it about that I had become your soldier rather than Gnaeus Pompeius's!' (Livy) 'this pardon is given to antiquity that by mixing human and divine it makes the beginnings of cities more grand' Indirect questions In the second type of indirect speech, indirect question, the verb is usually changed to the subjunctive mood, although occasionally, in rhetorical questions, the infinitive may be used (see below). When the context is primary, the present or perfect subjunctive is usual: (Cicero) 'I don't know why they can't' (Cicero) 'What you were doing, where you were, who you (had) called together, what plans you made, which of us do you think does not know these things?' The first four the verbs in the last example above are perfect subjunctive, which in an indirect question may represent an imperfect, perfect, or pluperfect tense in the original speech. The last verb is an infinitive, since it is a rhetorical question resembling a statement ('there is none of us who doesn't know') more than a question. When the context is historic, the imperfect and pluperfect subjunctives are usual: (Cicero) 'then I showed the tablets to Lentulus and asked if he recognised the seal; he nodded.' (Cicero) 'I asked Catiline whether he had been at the nighttime meeting at Marcus Laeca's house or not.' When the main verb in a direct question is a future tense, it becomes a future participle with the subjunctive of in an indirect question: (Cicero) 'I have absolutely no idea what is going to happen' A past potential subjunctive in a conditional clause becomes a future participle with the perfect subjunctive of : (Livy) 'tell us what you would have done, if you had been censor at that time'