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[*] 446. The Potential Subjunctive is used to suggest an action as possible or conceivable. The negative is nōn . In this use the Present and the Perfect refer without distinction to the immediate future; the Imperfect (occasionally the Perfect) to past time; the Pluperfect (which is rare) to what might have happened.
Ginn and Company, 1903.
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