475 The Tenses of the subjunctive do not refer to differences of time. The present denotes continuance or repetition; the aorist, simple occurrence or attainment; the perfect (infrequent), denotes a completed act or a continued state. The distinction often disappears in translating, but is not to be overlooked.
- a. The time of independent subjunctives is regularly future; see examples in
[471](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-471.html), [472](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-472.html), [473](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-473.html), [474](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-474.html). In Homer the subjunctive is often very like the future indicative in meaning, often also the same in form.