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224. Imperfect apparently used as a pluperfect.

Of course in those verbs in which the present is used as a perfect (204), the imperfect is used as a pluperfect.

ἔφευγεν Ξενοφῶν,XEN. An. 5.3.7 ; Xenophon was in exile, had been banished.

PLATO, Menex. 242E:μεθ᾽ ὦν τότε τοὺς βαρβάρους ἐνίκων, τούτους νικῶντες ἰδίᾳ”.

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