_T._ It is commonly “id quod,” isn’t it? id quod. _C._ Oh, I recollect, id quod. _T._ Well, which is more common, “quod,” or “id quod,” when the sentence is the antecedent? _C._ I think “id quod.” _T._ At least it is far more distinct; yes, I think it is more common. What could you put instead of it? _C._ Quod quidem. _T._ Now, dubitanti mihi; what is “mihi” governed by? _C._ Accessit. _T._ No; hardly. _C. is silent._ _T._ Does “accessit” govern the dative? _C._ I thought it did. _T._ Well, it may; but would Cicero use the dative after it? what is the more common practice with words of motion? Do you say, Venit mihi, _he came to me_? _C._ No, Venit ad me;—I recollect. _T._ That is right; venit ad me. Now, for instance, “incumbo:” what case does “incumbo” govern? _C._ Incumbite remis? _T._ Where is that? in Cicero? _C._ No, in Virgil. Cicero uses “in”; I recollect, incumbere in opus … ad opus. _T._ Well, then, _is_ this “mihi” governed by “accessit”? _what_ comes after accessit? _C._ I see; it is, accessit ad tollendam dubitationem. _T._ That is right; but then, what after all do you do with “mihi”? how is it governed? _C. is silent._ _T._ How is “mihi” governed, if it does not come after “accessit”? _C. pauses, then_, “Mihi” … “mihi” is often used so; and “tibi” and “sibi”: I mean “suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo”; … “venit mihi in mentem”; that is, _it came into my mind_; and so, “accessit mihi ad tollendam,” etc. _T._ That is very right. _C._ I recollect somewhere in Horace, vellunt tibi barbam. Etc., etc. 4. And now, my patient reader, I suspect you have had enough of me on this subject; and the best I can expect from you is, that you will say: “His first pages had some amusement in them, but he is dullish towards the end.” Perhaps so; but then you must kindly bear in mind that the latter part is about a steady careful youth, and the earlier part is not; and that goodness, exactness, and diligence, and the correct and the unexceptionable, though vastly more desirable than their contraries in fact, are not near so entertaining in fiction. § 2. Composition. 1.