[*] 301. Subjunctive and imperative are both future by their nature. So also is the optative outside of oratio obliqua. Under the head of future are included immediate and indefinite present. When we use, then, “present,” “perfect,” and “aorist” of the non-indicative moods, we mean by present “continuance,” by perfect “completion,” and by aorist “attainment.”
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