oes
he suffered.

Sometimes after the genitive he brings in the nominative, as in this (I.
i. 272):--

Of others who are now mortal.

He arranges many things in figures in various ways, as the following
passage (I. ii. 350):--

For well I ween, that on the day when first
We Grecians hitherward our course address'd
To Troy the messengers of blood and death
Th' o'erruling son of Saturn, on our right
His lightning flashing, with auspicious sign
Assur'd us of his favor.

And the following is not unlike it (I. vi. 510):--

His bright arms flashing like the gorgeous sun
Hasten'd with boastful mien and rapid step.

And these things, according to the ancient fashion, he exalts not
unreasonably. If any one changes the participles into verbs, he will
discover the sequence, for the word "lightning" has the same value as
"when it was lightning," and "relying" "since he relied." Like these
cases are the following (O. xii. 73):--

There are two crags, one reaches the broad sky,

and (I. vii. 306):--

They parted: Ajax to the Grecian camp
And Hector to the ranks of Troy returned.

And others of the same kind. For it is reasonable when one is about to
speak of two individuals to put first what is common to the two, keeping
the nominative in both cases. It is plain that this common use displays
much grace. Sometimes employing a common case he signifies only one, as
in the following (I. iii. 211):--

Both sat down, Ulysses was the higher in honor.

The form of words he often changes, sometimes putting the comparative
instead of the absolute (I. i. 32):--

That you may return a more sane being.

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)--

Her I release not till her yo