Sometimes the superlative for the positive, as (I. xi. 832);—
Most just of Centaurs.
Such is the change in nouns. But in verbs there is a change in moods, as when the infinitive is used for the imperative, as (I. v. 124):—
Go fearless onward, Diomed, to meet the Trojan darts,—
where the imperative "meet" might be expected.
Or the indicative in place of the optative, as (I. ii. 488):—
The crowd I shall not relate nor name,—
where one would expect "I could not relate nor name." And, on the contrary, the optative for the indicative, as (I. v. 388):—
Mars would then be lost,—for "was lost."
There is a variation of tenses when the present is used for the future (I. l. 29)—