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unchanged. Examples:-- si hoc crederes, errares, dico (dixi), si hoc crederes, te erraturum esse; si hoc credidisses, dico (dixi), si hoc credidisses, te erravisses, erraturum fuisse; si hoc dixisses, punitus dico (dixi), si hoc dixisses, futurum esses. fuisse ut punireris. 322. When an apodosis of a conditional sentence of the Third Type referring to the past is at the same time a Result clause or a quin-clause (after non dubito, etc.), it stands in the Perfect Subjunctive in the form -urus fuerim; as,-- ita territi sunt, ut arma tradituri fuerint,[57] nisi Caesar subito advenisset, _they were so frightened that they would have given up their arms, had not Caesar suddenly arrived_; non dubito quin, si hoc dixisses, erraturus fueris,[57] _I do not doubt that, if you had said this, you would have made a mistake_. a. This peculiarity is confined to the Active Voice. In the Passive, such sentences, when they become dependent, remain unchanged; as,-- non dubito quin, si hoc dixisses, vituperatus esses, _I do not doubt that, if you had said this, you would have been blamed_. b. When an Indirect Question becomes an apodosis in a conditional sentence of the Third Type, -urus fuerim (rarely -urus fuissem) is used; as,-- quaero, num, si hoc dixisses, erraturus fueris (or fuisses). c. Potui, when it becomes a dependent apodosis in sentences of this Type, usually changes to the Perfect Subjunctive; as,-- concursu totius civitatis defensi sunt, ut frigidissimos quoque oratores populi studia excitare potuerint, _they were defended before a gathering of all the citizens, so that the interest of the people would have been enough to excite even the most apathetic orators_. IMPLIED INDIRECT DISCOURSE. 323. The Subjunctive is often used in subordinate clauses whose indirect character is _merely implied by the context_; as,-- demonstrabantur mihi praeterea, quae Socrates de immortalitate animorum disseruisset, _there were explained to me besides, the arguments which Socrates had set forth concerning the immortality of the soul_ (i.e. the arguments which, it was said, Socrates had set forth); Paetus omnes libros quos pater suus reliquisset mihi donavit, _Paetus gave me all the books which (as he said) his fathe
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