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Consecutio temporum et praesens historicum

In English, your consecutio temporum is usually called the ‘sequence of tenses’. There is a general rule that in the principal sentence (i) a primary tense is followed in the subordinate clause by a ...
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Choosing conjunctive tenses in a clause subordinate to a subordinate clause

This is what Adolf V. Streng (Latinan kielioppi, 5th edition, 1936) says in §161.2: Finnish: Toisen tahi kolmannen asteen konjunktiivinen sivulause mukautuu predikaattinsa tempuksen puolesta sitä ...
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Choosing conjunctive tenses in a clause subordinate to a subordinate clause

If we have a subordinate clause depending on superordinate conjunctive clause, we must consider the tense of the conjunctive: (A) present or perfect "logic" (assimilable to a present), it should be ...
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How would you say "I heard old war drums beat." in Latin?

Sebastian's is a good suggestion, and I too don't recommend using an indirect statement here, but rather a participle, which would make it more vivid* (see A&G §497 d). *More vivid than the ...
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How would you say "I heard old war drums beat." in Latin?

First, past events in an AcI are expressed by the perfect infinitive, which in the passive is the perfect participle + esse. So you should write Audivi … tympana tunsa esse, except that the indirect ...
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Consecutio temporum et praesens historicum

Tuomo Pekkanen's Ars Grammatica – Latinan kielioppi (§116, lisäys 3) mentions that the historical present can be treated as either a present tense or as a past tense when consecutio ...
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How to choose tense of conjunctive in a clause subordinate to an accusativus cum infinitivo structure?

When a clause is subordinate to a nominal form of a verb (anything that does not have a grammatical person), the conjunctive predicate of the subordinate clause follows the predicate verb of its main ...
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Is active periphrastic conjugation compulsory in consecutio temporum?

Just came across this, sorry to see no answers. From my reading only the indirect question takes a periphrastic future in the subordinate,. Fear, Purpose and Final classes mostly take incomplete ...
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Present or imperfect subjunctive in this translation exercise?

The are two clauses here: "He refused to fight" "until reinforcements came" Clause 1 is the governing clause, 2 the subordinate one. When translating to Latin, you first translate the governing ...
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