Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, PART FIRST — WORDS AND FORMS, SIGNIFICATION OF THE FORMS OF THE VERB, Tenses of the Finite Verb, chapter 161

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[*] 161. The Perfect Indicative has two separate uses,—the Perfect Definite and the Perfect Historical (or Indefinite).

The Perfect Definite represents the action of the verb as completed in present time, and corresponds to the English perfect with have: as, scrīpsī, I have written.
The Perfect Historical narrates a simple act or state in past time without representing it as in progress or continuing. It corresponds to the English past or preterite and the Greek aorist: as, scrīpsit, he wrote.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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