Questions tagged [perfect-tense]
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Perfect tense used to convey a planned action in the future
In Cicero's letters there is the following sentence:
In Cumanum hodie misi tabellarium. Ei dedi tuas ad Vestorium quas Pharnaci dederas. ("I am sending a courier to Cumanus today and I have given him your letter to Vestorius which you dispatched by…
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Does suffero have perfect forms?
I read in "A Grammar of the Latin Language" by Karl Gottlob Zumpt that suffero has no perfect or supine because sustuli is for tollo. However I found perfect forms in online grammars. So, for example, sustinuit would mean "he suffered" according to…
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Why not future perfect in Jerome's Epistola 22?
In Jerome's Epistola 22 ad Eustochium, the famous one where God tells him that he (Jerome) is not a Christian but a Ciceronian, Jerome writes, after being whipped and then offered lenience if he won't read any more Gentile books:
Ego quī in tantō…
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