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98	Conditions	99
	A condition is a sentence with an if-clause	Should/would conditions (aka FLV, unreal) use present subjunctive
	The if-clause is called the prodosis.	in both prodosis and apodosis to describe an event which might
	The main clause is called the apodosis.	happen but hasn't:
		If he should come, I would see him.
	Simple conditions describe factual events:	Sî veniat, eum videam.
	If he comes, I will see him. (simple future, aka FMV)
	Latin never uses the present in simple future conditions	The potential subjunctive is really the apodosis of a
	and usually uses the future perfect in the prodosis.	should/would condition with the prodosis unexpressed:
	Sî vênerit, eum vidêbô.	I would see him.
		Eum videam.
	Contrary-to-fact conditions explain what would happen
	if something were true, but it isn't. Both prodosis and
	apodosis are in the subjunctive.

	Present uses imperfect subjunctive:
	If he were here, I would see him.
	Sî adesset, eum vidêrem.

	Past uses pluperfect subjunctive:
	If he had come, I would have seen him.
	Sî vênisset , eum vîdissem.

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