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The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and Illustrated

Note 70 — Chapter VI · OF THE PARTICIPLE.

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A similar phraseology in the use of the pluperfect indicative for the same tense subjunctive, obtains in Latin, as

“Impulerat ferro Argolicas fœdare latebras.”—Virgil.

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