Here a truly illuminating result was attained by the simple device of using the indicative for the conditional moodas in Juvenal's famous comment on Cicero's second Philippic: Antoni gladios potuit contemnere si sic omnia dixisset.

"Sic dicere versibus, ut doccat, ut delectet, ut moveat."

Non si male nunc, et olim sic erit semper; a good hour may come upon a sudden;

"Fate sure does sic tribulations on me at every turn of the road.

4. ut in humanis corporibus variae accidunt mutationes corporis, animique, sic in republica, &c. 471.