wish, purpose, result, allegation, hypothesis; whereas in fact. these notions belong to the verb which is not expressed. Thus the phrase "quid faciam" is translated by what should I do or what am I to do? but the full phrase is " quid vis faciam?” what do you wish me to do? (!)'
This theory Key, perhaps, borrowed from Hermann, who applies it (De emendanda ratione Grammaticae Graecae) to explain the two exceptional uses before noticed of the Greek Subjunctive: supposing ἴωμεν = άγε ἴωμεν, and τί φῶ=σήμηνον Οι οὐκ οἶδα τί φῶ. This farfetched caprice of an ellipsis is bad enough as used by Hermann: but when applied to all the independent usages of the Latin Thought-mood it has not, I think, been accepted by any grammarian but Key himself. I therefore consider the adoption of the term Subjunctive, as a name for that mood generally, to be an unwise and unjustifiable violation of propriety in the choice of terms. Such no doubt is the opinion of that multitude of grammatical writers who take the term Conjunctive in its stead, though, unhappily, they neglect to assign a distinct name to that dependent use, which is really Subjunctive. To this neglect is due, in great measure, their vague and unsatisfactory method of treating Compound Construction in Latin; a method propagated, through Madvig, to some English scholars.
See Uses of the Verb, $$ 90-99 of this Grammar, Appendix ii. to the 'Public School Latin Primer,' and the Preface to my Second Edition of Virgil.
XIX. § 32. The small number of terms for which this Grammar is specially responsible will be seen in its Index. Care has been taken to make them etymologically appropriate, and useful for their several purposes. On such points I have always invited expression of opinion by correspondence. It has been justly urged, that the term Factitive (adopted from German writers for that class of verbs which join a complement to their object, § 106, § 131)-is bad in etymology. I have therefore now written Factive: but I feel inclined to prefer the term 'Appositive Verbs': i.e. such as append to their object a complement resembling an apposition: populus Numam regem creavit: puto te felicem (philosophum). The point merits further consideration.