New Latin Grammar, page 209 by Charles E. Bennett
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animum omittunt priusquam locŠdēmigrent, _they die rather than quit their post._
2. After historical tenses the Imperfect Subjunctive is used, especially by some writers, where the notion of anticipation has practically vanished; as,--
sÅl antequam sÄ“ abderet fugientem vÄ«dit AntÅnium, _the sun before it set saw Antony fleeing._
Clauses introduced by Dum, _DÅnec_, Quoad.
293. 1. Dum, while, regularly takes the Indicative of the Historical Present; as,--
Alexander, dum inter prÄ«mÅrÄ“s pugnat, sagittÄ ictus est, _Alexander, while he was fighting in the van, was struck by an arrow_;
dum haec geruntur, in fÄ«nÄ“s VenellÅrum pervÄ“nit, _while these things were being done, he arrived in the territory of the Venelli_.
II. Dum, dÅnec, and quoad, as long as, take the Indicative; as,--
dum anima est, spēs est, _as long as there is life, there is hope_;
LacedaemoniÅrum gÄ“ns fortis fuit, dum LycÅ«rgÄ« lÄ“gÄ“s vigÄ“bant, _the race of the Lacedaemonians was powerful, as long as the laws of Lycurgus were in force_;
CatÅ, quoad vÄ«xit, virtÅ«tum laude crÄ“vit, _Cato, at long as he lived, increased in the fame of his virtues_.
III. Dum, dÅnec, and quoad, until, take:--
1. The Indicative, to denote _an actual event_; as,--
dÅnec rediit, fuit silentium, _there was silence till he came_;
ferrum in corpore retinuit, quoad renÅ«ntiÄtum est BoeÅtiÅs vÄ«cisse, he kept the iron in his body until word was brought that the Boeotians had conquered.
a. In Livy and subsequent historians dum and dÅnec in this sense often take the Subjunctive instead of the Ind