Indirect Discourse.
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B. Tenses of the Subjunctive.
18. These follow the regular principle for the Sequence of Tenses, being Principal if the verb of saying is Principa; Historical if it is Historical. Yet for the sake of ividness, we often find the Present Subjunctive used ter an historical tense (Repraesentiitio); as,aesar respondit, si obsides dentur, sese pacem esse factiirum, Caesar replied that, if hostages be given, he would make peace. a. For the sequence after the Perfect Infinitive, see ยง 268, 2.
CONDITIONAL
SENTENCES
Conditional Sentences
IN INDIRECT
DISCOURSE.
of the First Type.
319. A. THE ApODOSIS. Any tense of the Indicative is changed to the corresponding tense' of the Infinitive ( ยง ยง 270; 3 I 7, a). B. THE PROTASIS. The protasis takes those tenses of the Subjunctive. which are required by the Sequence of Tenses. Examples:DIRECT.
INDIRECT.
st hoc credie, erras,
dico, sr hoc credas, te errare ; { dixi, SI hoc crederes, te errare,
51 hoc credlSs, errabis,
dico, SI hoc credas, te erraturum esse; { dixi, si hoc crederes, te erratttrum esse.
S1hoc crlSdideris, errabte,
diCO' SI hoc credfderfs, te erratiirum esse; { dixi, si hoc credidisslSs, te erriitiirum esse.
- h-oc crgXdeb iis erravlst1 . - {d1CO' _ _ si _ hoc _ crederes, _ te_ erravisse; . , , dixi, Sl hoc crederes, te erraVlsse.
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a. Note that a Future Perfect Indicative of the Direct Discourse regularly appears in the Indirect as a Perfect Subjunctive after a principal tense, and as a Pluperfect Subjunctive after an historical tense.