by whiteoctave » Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:15 pm
re: chad -
the latin perfect did, of course, cover both the greek perfect and the aorist, so "perfect" forms (named before any distinction was drawn between tense and aspect) in latin do not necessarily demand Perfect tenses in greek.
undoubtedly, however, caesar's address to the senate with regard to his swift victory over pharnace, where these words were reputedly uttered, would have demanded a strictly past sense, as opposed to any sort of retrospective aspect that the perfect would bring.
~D