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‘A Wilful Exaggeration’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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In the whole theory of the Latin tenses there is no more popular item than this explanation by Roby (Latin Grammar, 1574a) of the use of the pluperfect indicative in unreal conditional sentences. Far the most familiar instance is that in Horace (C. II. 17), ‘me truncus illapsus cerebro sustulerat, nisi Faunus ictum dextra leuasset.’
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