§476. Tenses of the Indicative
The completed tenses of some verbs are equivalent to the incomplete tenses of verbs of kindred meaning.
Such are the preteritive verbs ōdī, I hate; meminī, I remember; nōvī, I know; cōnsuēvī, I am accustomed,1 with others used preteritively, as vēnerat (=aderat, he was at hand, etc.), cōnstitērunt, they stand firm (have taken their stand), and many inceptives (see § 263. 1):—
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quī diēs aestūs maximōs efficere cōnsuēvit
(B. G. 4.29), which day generally makes the highest tides (is accustomed to make). -
cûius splendor obsolēvit
(Quinct. 59), whose splendor is now all faded.
PLUPERFECT TENSE
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.