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100 THE VERB.—TENSES. § 47Csesar had said these things, he departed."Thus used, fuum^with the pluperfect, may be elegantly rendered by the perfectparticiple in English; thus the above example may be rendered." Caesar, having said these things, departed."§ 46. TENSES OF THE IMPERATIVE..175.—The Imperative mood, in Latin, has only one tense,namely, the present. Still the act from the nature of thismood is necessarily future ; as, scribe, " write thou." Thecommand is present ; the act commanded, future. Still thetwo forms of the second person mark a distinction of time.See 151, Obs. 10.The other tenses used imperatively, are the future andfuture-perfect indicative, and the present and perfect subjunctive;' which see.§ 47. TENSES OF THE INFINITIVE.IT 6.—The tenses of the Infinitive are four,the Present, the Perfect, and the Future, and, inthe active voice, the Future-perfect.In Latin, the tenses of the infinitive express its action aspast, present, or future, not with regard to the present time,as in the other moods, but with regard to the time of the leadingverb, on which it is dependent.177.—The infinitive is used in two different ways; viz :without a subject, or with it.178.— I. The infinitive without a subject, follows a verb, oradjective, and is always translated in the same way, whetherthe preceding verb be present, past, or future ; thus :ACTIVE VOICE.Present.DicifMr scribere, He is said to write, or to be writing (now)." scripsisse, " to have written (now)." scripturus esse, " to be about to write (now)." script tlr usfuissc, " to have been about to write (before now)