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(b) In old and poetical Latin the Primary tenses of the Subjunctive are frequently used (instead of Secondary) to denote Imaginary Suppositions relating to the Present: tū sī hīc sīs, ălĭtĕr sentĭās if you were here, you would think otherwise.

(c) Poets use them for greater vividness, even of Imaginary Sup- positions relating to the Past: spătia et sī plŭra sŭpersint, trānseăt and if more ground had remained, he would have passed him.

§ 419. Commands and Wishes are sometimes coupled with conditions. The form of the Protasis depends on the sense.

§420.—The Pluperfect Subjunctive of Imaginary Suppositions (§ § 242, 243) is rarely used in those Dependent Sentences which of themselves require the Subjunctive. After (1) Consecutive ŭt, (2) haud dŭbĭum est quīn, etc., and (3) in Indirect Questions, its place is taken by one of the substitutes mentioned in §417(c), which is then put into the Subjunctive in accordance with the requirements of the Dependent Sentence.

The Tense used is the Perfect Subjunctive, whatever the tense of the Verb in the Principal Sentence.

(A) In the Active the Future Participle with fŭĕrim is used, (B) In the Passive pŏtŭĕrim with the Infinitive is used, or fŭĕrim with the Gerund or Gerundive. (a) Adĕō părātă ăpŭd mălōs sēdĭtĭoŭt rĕdeuntem ā cēnā Othōnem raptūrī fŭĕrint so ripe (was) an outbreak amongst the disloyal that they would have caught up Otho when returning from dinner; sī ĭd făcĕrĕ vŏlŭissĕs, nōn dŭbĭto quīn omnĭs ăd tē conversūră fŭerĭt multĭtūdō if you had been