§ 423. (B) Changes of Person.
If a speech is reported by a "third person,"
| The First Person is | generally | represented by | sē (sŭŭs). |
| The Second Person | „ | „ | ĭs or illĕ. |
| The Third Person | „ | „ | ĭs or illĕ. |
Hīc and istĕ generally become illĕ, hīc here ĭbĭ or illīc.
Illĕ is used of the more emphatic Person, Second or Third as the case may be ; is of the less emphatic one.
§ 424. (C) Changes of Time.
If a speech is reported some time after it has been delivered, the Primary Tenses in Dependent Sentences are regularly changed to the corresponding Secondary Tenses.
Adverbs of Time suffer a corresponding change, nunc now becoming tum or tunc then.
§ 425. Some points under (A) require special attention.
I.—Questions.
(A) Questions in the Subjunctive in O. R. remain in the Subjunctive.
(B) Questions in the Indicative in O. R. are changed to the Infinitive or Subjunctive, according to their character (Real or Rhetorical) and their Person.
(a) Real Questions, in which information is asked for, are put in the Infinitive if of the First or Third Person, in the Subjunctive if of the Second Person.
{b') Rhetorical Questions, which are only asked for the sake of effect, and to which no answer is expected, are generally put in the Infinitive of all persons.
But Rhetorical questions which cannot be answered satisfactorily are always put in the Subjunctive' if of the Second Person, and often if of the Third.
Also a Verb of thinking or believing in the Second Person (as pŭtās do you suppose?) is put in the Subjunctive.
§ 426. II.—Tenses of the Infinitive.—For the Tenses of the Infinitive when it represents an Indicative of the O. R. see the table in § 430 below.
The Subjunctive (of Imagination) in Principal Sentences, § 383, is also represented by the Infinitive (of the Periphrastic Future).
