293.
Superlatives (and more rarely Comparatives)
denoting order and succession---also medius, ceterus,
reliquus---usually designate not what object, but what
part of it, is meant:---
- summus mons, the top of the hill.
- in ultima platea, at the end of the place.
- prior actio, the earlier part of an
action.
- reliqui captivi, the rest of the
prisoners.
- in colle medio (B. G. i. 24), half way up the hill
(on the middle of the hill).
- inter ceteram planitiem (Iug. 92), in a region
elsewhere level.
NOTE: A similar use is found in sera (multa)
nocte, late at night, and the like. But medium
viae, the middle of the way; multum diei,
much of the day, also occur.
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Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, section 293