Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, PART SECOND — SYNTAX, SYNTAX OF THE VERB, TENSES, chapter 474

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[*] 474. The Perfect is sometimes used emphatically to denote that a thing or condition of things that once existed no longer exists:

“ fuit ista quondam in hāc rē pūblicā virtūs ” (Cat. 1.3) , there was once such virtue in this commonwealth.
“ habuit, nōn habet ” (Tusc. 1.87) , he had, he has no longer.

fīlium habeō ... immo habuī; nunc habeam necne incertumst (Ter. Haut. 93), I have a son, no, I had one; whether I have now or not is uncertain.

“ fuimus Trōes, fuit Īlium ” (Aen. 2.325) , we have ceased to be Trojans, Troy is no more.

Special Uses of the Perfect

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