The completed tenses of some verbs are equivalent to the incomplete tenses of verbs of kindred meaning.

Such are the preteritive verbs ōdī , I hate; meminī , I remember; nōvī , I know; cōnsuēvī , I am accustomed , Cf. dētestor , reminīscor , sciō , soleō . with others used preteritively, as vēnerat (= aderat , he was at hand , etc.), cōnstitērunt , they stand firm (have taken their stand), and many inceptives (see § 263 . 1):— quī diēs aestūs maximōs efficere cōnsuēvit (B. G. 4.29) , which day generally makes the highest tides (is accustomed to make). cûius splendor obsolēvit (Quinct. 59) , whose splendor is now all faded. Many other verbs are occasionally so used: as, —dum oculōs certāmen āverterat (Liv. 32.24) , while the contest had turned their eyes (kept them turned). [Here āverterat = tenēbat .]