Chapter 477Allen and Greenough's Latin GrammarDickinson CollegeChristopher Francese
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The Pluperfect is used (1) to denote an action or state
completed
in past time; or (2) sometimes to denote an action in indefinite time, but prior to some past time referred to:—
(1) locī
nātūra erat haec
,
quem locum nostrī castrīs dēlēgerant(B. G. 2.18)
,
this was the nature of the ground which our men had chosen for a camp.
Viridovīx summam imperī tenēbat eārum omnium cīvitātum quae
dēfēcerant
(
id
. 3.17),
Viridovix held the chief command of all those tribes which had revolted.
(2)
neque vērō cum aliquid
mandāverat
cōnfectum putābat
(Cat. 3.16)
,
but when he had given a thing in charge he did not look on it as done.
quae sī quandō adepta est id quod eī
fuerat concupītum
, tum fert alacritātem
(Tusc. 4.15)
,
if it
(desire)
ever has gained what it had
[previously]
desired
,
then it produces joy.