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‘A Wilful Exaggeration’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

E. V. Arnold
E. V. Arnold
Affiliation:
Bangor
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Extract

In the whole theory of the Latin tenses there is no more popular item than this explanation by Roby (Latin Grammar, 1574a) of the use of the pluperfect indicative in unreal conditional sentences. Far the most familiar instance is that in Horace (C. II. 17), ‘me truncus illapsus cerebro sustulerat, nisi Faunus ictum dextra leuasset.’

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 15 , Issue 3-4 , July 1921 , pp. 174
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1921

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