Asyndetic juxtapositions of different tenses or moods of the same verb are very much a feature of legal/official language in Latin. At Cic. Phil. 5.46 (76) the following occurs in a proposal by Cicero for a senatorial decree: libertatem populi Romani defendant defe<nde>rint. By contrast earlier in the same speech two instances of praesideo in different tenses are coordinated, but there the pair is not in a formal motion: 5.37 Galliaque, quae semper praesidet atque praesedit huic imperio, ‘and Gaul, which always protects and has protected this empire’. Even in official language, however, asyndeton is not invariable. In the same speech again (at 5.53) in another such motion we find qui … auctoritatemque huius ordinis defenderint atque defendant. The order of the same two verb forms has been reversed. The coordination gives a better clausula than either (asyndetic) defenderint defendant or defendant defenderint.