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... mens non laeua fuisset, impulerat ferro Argolicas foedare latebras,...

l.55 impulerat: normally, the apodosis of a conditional sentence in which the condition is unfulfilled would be in the subjunctive ( 'impulisset' expected here). Here the indicative emphasises the fact that the action did not take place and that the condition on which it depends was unfulfilled.