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 and when thou dost overtake them (as soon as thou shalt have overtaken), thou shalt say unto them. Naturally, examples of this kind are very closely related to conditional sentences; see, therefore, the examples in and. On the connexion of an imperfect consecutive or a perfect with detached expressions of time (as equivalent to complete clauses), cf. ; on the imperfect consecutive after and a statement of time, cf. ; on the perfect consecutive following a detached statement of time, as in, cf. .—In an imperative with  follows the perfect consecutive.

(5) The fact that one action or event has not yet taken place on the occurrence of another, is expressed by (an adverb, not a conjunction) with the imperfect (according to ). The apodosis, which may consist of a subject and perfect or even of a noun-clause, is then connected by (or ) as in the examples above, under no. 3, e.g.  (cf. )  (=when) the men of the city ... compassed, &c.;.

2. Conjunctions used to introduce temporal clauses are (with perfect, e.g., , , ; with imperfect, , , , , , , , ) and  when ( with the imperfect also=as often as, ; with perfect ); less frequently  (joined with a perfect), e.g. , , , , , cf. also =quotiescunque; also in the same sense with an imperfect, ; with a perfect, equivalent to the futurum exactum,. Other conjunctions of time are the compounds, ; ; , (also the simple , e.g. , ,  [with the imperfect=only when, as in ]); 2:5, &c.; especially in the formula  (where indeed it would be very natural to read  the infin. constr., as elsewhere after , ) , , ,  (but  while, as long as); , , 2, 6 with an imperfect, as in   with a perfect; , ;  (for which in  ; ,  simply ; , ,  simply ) after that;  (prop. since that time; the dependent clause is attached to it in the same way as the attributive clause to the demonstrative  ) since, ;  (and simply  ) before;  (for ) before,.

Rem. 1. With regard to the tenses used with the above conjunctions, the rules are practically the same as those given in for causal clauses. The perfect indicates actions completed in the past or future (in the former case corresponding to the Latin pluperfect,, and in the latter to the