#quīn lābēbar longius, nisi mē retinuissem#, _Leg._ 1, 52, _why, I was
going to drift on still further, if I had not checked myself_. #sī per
L. Metellum licitum esset, mātrēs illōrum veniēbant#, _V._ 5, 129, _if
Metellus had not prevented, the mothers of those people were just
coming_; here the protasis may be held to contain a virtual negative; so
in the last example on this page. #castra excindere parābant, nī
Mūciānus sextam legiōnem opposuisset#, Ta. _H._ 3, 46, _they were
preparing to destroy the camp, had not Mucianus checked them with the
sixth legion_. #sī dēstināta prōvēnissent, rēgnō imminēbat#, Ta. _H._ 4,
18, _had his schemes succeeded, he was close upon the throne_.
2107. (_c._) Apodosis in the Pluperfect Indicative.
#quīngentōs simul, nī hebes machaera foret, ūnō ictū occīderās#, Pl.
_MG._ 52, _five hundred, had your glaive not blunted been, at one fell
swoop you’d slain_. #praeclārē vīcerāmus, nisi Lepidus recēpisset
Antōnium#, _Fam._ 12, 10, 3, _we had gained a splendid victory, if
Lepidus had not taken Antony under his protection_. #quod ipsum fortūna
ēripuerat, nisi ūnīus amīcī opēs subvēnissent#, _RabP._ 48, _even this
boon fortune had wrenched from him, unless he had been assisted by a
single friend_. #sī gladium nōn strīnxissem, tamen triumphum merueram#,
L. 38, 49, 12, _if I had not drawn my sword, I had still earned my
triumph_. #perierat imperium, sī Fabius tantum ausus esset quantum īra
suādēbat#, Sen. _de Ira_, 1, 11, 5, _the empire had been lost, if Fabius
had ventured as far as passion urged_.