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Excerpt from The Sequence of Tenses in Plautus: A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
In this Chapter are treated the instances of the perfect indica tive as a primary tense. Inasmuch as in the great majority of cases the perfect takes the secondary sequence, it seemed ad visable to bring together here the examples of primary sequence, largely because of their value in a comparative study of the material in Chapter V. The perfect tense is primary when it denotes the present resultant state from a past act, and secondary when it denotes the past act. The line of division between the two capacities in which this tense serves is frequently hard to draw. Occasionally we find examples of the perfect clearly denoting a present state and still taking the secondary sequence, as may be seen from the examples in a portion of Chapter V (pp. 40 The dependent subjunctives are treated in order according to the syntax of the clause in which they stand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
