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Can an indirect question be the subject of its governing clause?
Moments after asking the question I stumbled upon this in Caesar's De bello Gallico:
Quae ubi convenit ac primum ab hostibus visa est, circiter CCXX naves eorum paratissimae atque omni genere armo …
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Use of Infinitive
Are you familiar with accusativus cum infinitivo (ACI)?
All of the bolded infinitives in your quote belong to an ACI structure, and should not be treated in isolation from other parts of the structure …
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Why is the verb indicative in an indirect question?
Because video is not in the clause introduced by quomodo.
The nescio quomodo is a parenthetical remark and those two words can be removed without significantly altering the meaning.
Pay attention to t …
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Indirect questions and the passive subjunctive
An indirect question always uses subjunctive (also called conjunctive) in Latin.
You just write the question as if it were a normal question, and then change indicative to subjunctive.
An accusative …
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