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[14] quae laborant: but cf. the subjunctive mood in similar causal clauses in vv. 21 and 27. So Plantus and Terence apparently use the indicative and subjunctive indiscriminately with the causal relative, and even change from one to the other, as here, while in later Latin the subjunctive becomes the rule.


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