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105.20.

fore: the subj. is practically the clause sicognovisset, he thought it would be of great advantage if, etc. In all languages the proper subject is often absorbed in some different form of expression ; here it is properly 'that fact,' 'that result,' implied in the conditional clause. The idiom is the same in English except that we supply 'it.'


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