Latin Grammar

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Conditional Sentencel;lof the Second Type.

320. A. THE ApODOSIS. The Present Subjunctive of the Direct Discourse regularly becomes the Future Infinitive of the Indirect. B. THE PROTASIS. The Protasis takes those tenses of the Subjunctive demanded by the sequence of tenses. Examples :S1 hoc credas, erres, {dlCO' SI hoc cred1is, te erratfirum esse; dixi, S1 hoc crederes, te erratiirum esse.

Conditional Sentences of the Third Type.

321. A. THE ApODOSIS. I. The Imperfect Subjunctive becomes the Future Infinitive.

a.

of the Direct Discourse

But this construction is rare, being represented in the classical Latinity by a single example (Caesar, V. 29. 2). Some scholars question the correctness of this passage.

The Pluperfect becomes :2.

Subjunctive

of the Direct Discourse

a) In the Active Voice the Infinitive in -iirus路fuisse. b) In the Passive Voice it takes the form futiirum fuisse ut with the Imperfect Subjunctive.

B. THE PROTASIS. The protasis in Conditional tences of this type always remains unchanged. Examples :'5i hoc cr~deres, errares, sf hoc cr~didiss~s, erravisses, 51hoc dixisses, piinitus esses,

Sen-

dlco (dixi), SI hoc creder~s, te erratiirum esse; dico (dixi), SI hoc cr~didisses, te erratiirum fuisse; dico (dixi), SI hoc dixiss~s fiitiirum fuisse ut piinireris.

322. When an apodosis of a conditional sentence of the Third Type referring to the past is at the same time a Result clause, or a


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