What’s the odds, so long as you’re happy.
Qui, signifying the cause, requires a subjunctive mood, as
Stultus es qui Ovidio credas:
You are a fool for believing Ovid.
Ut, for, postquam, after that, sicut, as, and quomodo, how, is joined to an indicative mood; but when it signifies quanquam, although, utpote, forasmuch as, or the final cause, to a subjunctive mood, as
Ut sumus in Ponto ter frigore constitit Ister:
Since that we are in Pontus the Danube has stood frozen three times.
Were skating and sliding classical accomplishments? Ambition, we know, led many of the Romans to tread on slippery ground: many of them struck out new paths, but none (that we have heard of) ever struck out a slide. Imagine Cato or Seneca “coming the cobbler’s knock.”
Te oro, domine, ut exeam:
Please, sir, let me go out.