Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, chapter 4, section 11

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[11] For example, Timarchides negat esse ei periculum a seuri¹ the present negat is substituted for the past. Or one mood may be used for another, as in the phrase, hoc Ithacus velit.² In fact, to cut a long matter short, there is a figure corresponding to every form of solecism.

1 Verr. v. xliv. 116. “Timarchides denies that he is in any danger from the axe of the executioner.”

2 Aen. ii. 104. “So wills the Ithacan.” On Quintilian's view velit here = vult. But in point of fact this is untrue, since in the context it clearly means “would wish.”

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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