[tied] Re: Eggs from birds and swift horses

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> >Now, if faciat is a present subjunctive by virtue of
> > its being obligatorily combined with a non-past main verb, then
> > faceret is the corresponding past.
>
> Only in these constructions.

Sure, but that's enough to motivate that its formation was intended
a preterite of the subjunctive. Especially, if its other of uses can
be understood from the same basis, as I believe they can.

Jens