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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... Force of the Indicative Tenses. 116. The Present Tense. The time is Present. The action is incomplete or progressive, attempted, had in view or aimed at, insisted on, commenced, repeated or customary. Action continuing. Ex.--Haec duo signa nunc ad impluvium tuum stant, Cic. Verr., I, 23, 61. Equus CUrrit (is running). Attempted. Ex. Quintus Tusculanum venditat, ut, si possit, emat Pacilianam domum, Cic, Att., I, 14, 7. Had in view, aimed at. Ex.--C. Herennius ad plebem P. Clodium traducit. Cic, Att., I, 18, 4. Solvunt Salaminii, Cic, Att., VI, 2, 9 (here SOlvunt = wans to pay, are ready to pay). Fugio homines, Cic, Att., III, 7, 1. (Vos) reduces in patriam facit, Liv., XXII, 60, 13. Persisted in, insisted on. Ex.--Me secum in Hispaniam ducit, Cic, Fam., VIII, 16,4. Repeated, customary, habitual. Ex.--Adventus meos celebrat, profectionibus angitur, honoribus gaudet, Plin. Min., IV, 1, 4. In omnibus desideriis meis tuam indulgentiam experior, Plin. Min., Ep. Plin. et Trai., 94, 3. Rem. 1. As an action incomplete, as also one persisted in, involves an action commenced, the Present Tense may often best be interpreted as presenting an action commenced. Ex.--Turbat Sampsiceramus, Cic, Att., II, 17, 1 (is beginning to make trouble). (a) The Aoristic Present, that is, the Present Tense presenting an action in the Present Time as a simple fact without reference to incompleteness or continuance, should be kept in view. Ex.--Narro tibi (= I tell you, not / am telling you): plane relegatus mini videor, Cic, Att., II, 11, 1. Prorsus, ut scribis, ita sentio, Cic, Att., II, 17,1. 117. The Present is used to express an action which has been for."tome time and is still in progress, with iam associated with a word of Time; iam din, iamdudum, dudum, iam pridem; with an ordi...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151007927
- ISBN 13 9781151007926
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages230
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