New Latin Grammar, page 219 by Charles E. Bennett
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sÄ« tÄ“cum patria loquÄtur, nÅnne impetrÄre dÄ“beat, _if your country should plead thus with you, would she not deserve to obtain her request?_
a. The Subjunctive in the Apodosis of conditional sentences of this type is of the Potential variety.
b. Sometimes we find the Indicative in the Apodosis of sentences of the Second Type, where the writer wishes to assert the accomplishment of a result more positively; as,--
aliter sÄ« faciat, nÅ«llam habet auctÅritÄtem, _if he should do otherwise, he has no authority_.
Third Type.--Supposed Case Represented as Contrary to Fact.
304. 1. Here we regularly have the Subjunctive in both Protasis and Apodosis, the Imperfect referring to present time, and the Pluperfect referring _to past_; as,--
sÄ« amÄ«cÄ« meÄ« adessent, opis nÅn indigÄ“rem, _if my friends were here, I should not lack assistance_;
sÄ« hÅc dÄ«xissÄ“s, errÄssÄ“s, _if you had said this, you would have erred_;
sapientia nÅn expeterÄ“tur, sÄ« nihil efficeret, _philosophy would not be desired, if it accomplished nothing_;
cÅnsilium, ratiÅ, sententia nisi essent in senibus, nÅn summum cÅnsilium majÅrÄ“s nostrÄ« appellÄssent senÄtum, _unless deliberation, reason, and wisdom existed in old men, our ancestors would not have called their highest deliberative body a senate_.
2. Sometimes the Imperfect Subjunctive is found referring to the past, especially to denote _a continued act, or a state of things still existing_; as,--
Laelius, FÅ«rius, CatÅ sÄ« nihil litterÄ«s adjuvÄrentur, numquam sÄ“ ad eÄrum studium contulissent, _Laelius, Furius, and Cato would never have devoted themselves to the s