§293. Comparatives and Superlatives

Superlatives (and more rarely Comparatives) denoting order and succession—also medius, [ cēterus], reliquus—usually designate not what object, but what part of it, is meant:—

• summus mōns, the top of the hill.
• in ultimā plateā, at the end of the place.
• prior āctiō, the earlier part of an action.
• reliquī captīvī, the rest of the prisoners.
• in colle mediō (B. G. 1.24), half way up the hill (on the middle of the hill).
• inter cēteram plānitiem (Iug. 92), in a region elsewhere level.