Ooooh, my inner language nerd loves this! And of course, I couldn't but remember the famous sentence from my long-long-LONG ago Latin classes: "Si tacuisses*, philosophus mansisses" (If you had stayed silent, you would have remained a philosopher"), which is usually attributed to the philosopher Boethius. (5th to 6th c. CE). In case you wondered how old Boethius got into language instruction, it's a sample sentence for a construction in the subjunctive, contrary to fact.
*The verb "tacere" - to stay silent - still lives on in the English adjective "taciturn" for someone who doesn't say much.
Ooooh, my inner language nerd loves this! And of course, I couldn't but remember the famous sentence from my long-long-LONG ago Latin classes: "Si tacuisses*, philosophus mansisses" (If you had stayed silent, you would have remained a philosopher"), which is usually attributed to the philosopher Boethius. (5th to 6th c. CE). In case you wondered how old Boethius got into language instruction, it's a sample sentence for a construction in the subjunctive, contrary to fact.
*The verb "tacere" - to stay silent - still lives on in the English adjective "taciturn" for someone who doesn't say much.
https://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/phrase/1767/