Conditional sentences are the development of an earlier Parataxis. Thus we may assume that the earliest type of si valet, bint esi was btnc est, valet, ' it is well ; he is well '. The conditional force was purely the result of the context, which indicated... A Latin Grammar - Page 207by Charles Edwin Bennett - 1895 - 265 pagesFull view - About this book
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...classification, which has regard exclusively to what is implied in the l._usis in each instance. 401. Conditional sentences are the development of an earlier...less frequency in all stages of the Latin language (Or. § 305. 2). They are simply a relic of the earlier paratactic stage. The origin of the conjunctional... | |
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