Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek

How keenly the differences of the imperfect, aorist, and pluperfect might be felt, is best shown in those passages in which all three are used side by side.

“ἐγὼ μὲν ἀπεδήμουν . . . ἐτετελευτήκει δ᾽ ὁ πατὴρ πάλαι, ὅτε οὗτος ἔγημε”, DEM. [46]DEM., 21; I was abroad and my father had long been dead when this man got married.

DEM. [46]DEM., 21(see above). [56]DEM., 9: “ἐπειδὴ ὁ Σικελικὸς κατάπλους ἐγένετο καὶ αἱ τιμαὶ τοῦ σίτου ἐπ᾽ ἔλαττον ἐβάδιζον καὶ ἡ ναῦς ἡ τούτων ἀνῆκτο εἰς Αἴγυπτον, εὐθέως οὗτος ἀποστέλλει κτλ.”.

LYS.12.53: “ἐπειδὴ δὲ εἰς τὸν Πειραιᾶ ἤλθομεν καὶ αἱ ταραχαὶ γεγενημέναι ἦσαν καὶ περὶ τῶν διαλλαγῶν οἱ λόγοι ἐγίγνοντο, πολλὰς ἑκάτεροι ελπίδας εἴχομεν κτἑ” . 13.5: “διεφθάρησαν . . . ἐγεγένητο . . . ἐγίγνοντο” .

HDT.1.80: “ὡς ὤσφραντο τάχιστα τῶν καμήλων οἱ ἵπποι καὶ εἶδον αὐτάς, ὀπίσω ἀνέστρεφον, διέφθαρτό” (lay shattered) “τε τῷ Κροίσῳ ἡ ἐλπίς”. 4.125: “παραχθέντων . . . ταρασσομένων . . . τεταραγμένους”. 6.108: “ἐδεδώκεσαν . . . ἔδοσαν . . . ἐδίδοσαν”, They had given, they gave, they were for giving, offered. 7.193: “οἱ δὲ βάρβαροι, ὡς ἐπαύσατό τε ὁ ἄνεμος καὶ τὸ κῦμα ἔστρωτο, . . . ἔπλεον παρὰ τὴν ἤπειρον”, The barbarians, as the wind ceased and the waves had become calm, went sailing along the mainland.

HOM. Il. 7.464-5: “ὣς οἱ μὲν τοιαῦτα πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀγόρευον”. | “δύσετο δ᾽ ἠέλιος, τετέλεστο δὲ ἔργον Ἀχαιῶν”.