New Latin Grammar eBook

Charles Edwin Bennett
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 322 pages of information about New Latin Grammar.

New Latin Grammar eBook

Charles Edwin Bennett
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 322 pages of information about New Latin Grammar.

IV.  With volo, nolo, malo, cupio, when the Subject of the Infinitive is different from that of the governing verb; as,—­

    nec mihi hunc errorem extorqueri volo, nor do I wish this error to be
    wrested from me
;

    eas res jactari nolebat, he was unwilling that these matters should be
    discussed
;

    te tua frui virtute cupimus, we desire that you enjoy your worth.

  a.  When the Subject of both verbs is the same, the simple Infinitive is
  regularly used in accordance with Sec. 328, 1.  But exceptions occur,
  especially in case of esse and Passive Infinitives as,—­

    cupio me esse clementem, I desire to be lenient;

    Timoleon maluit se diligi quam metui, Timoleon preferred to be loved
    rather than feared
.

  b.  Volo also admits the Subjunctive, with or without ut; nolo the
  Subjunctive alone. (See Sec. 296, 1, a.)

V. With Verbs of emotion (joy, sorrow, regret, etc.), especially gaudeo, laetor, doleo; aegre fero, moleste fero, graviter fero, am annoyed, distressed; miror, queror, indignor; as,—­

    gaudeo te salvum advenire, I rejoice that you arrive safely;

    non moleste ferunt se libidinum vinculis laxatos esse, they are not
    troubled at being released from the bonds of passion
;

    miror te ad me nihil scribere, I wonder that you write me nothing.

  a.  Instead of an Infinitive these verbs also sometimes admit a quod-
  clause as Object. (See Sec. 299.) Thus:—­

    miror quod non loqueris, I wonder that you do not speak.

VI.  Some verbs which take two Accusatives, one of the Person and the other of the Thing (Sec. 178, 1), may substitute an Infinitive for the second Accusative; as,—­

    cogo te hoc facere, I compel you to do this (cf. te hoc cogo);

    docui te contentum esse, I taught you to be content (cf. te
    modestiam docui, I taught you temperance).

Passive Construction of the Foregoing Verbs.

332.  Those verbs which in the Active are followed by the Infinitive with Subject Accusative, usually admit the personal construction of the Passive.  This is true of the following and of some others:—­

  a) jubeor, vetor, sinor; as,—­

    milites pontem facere jussi sunt, the soldiers were ordered to build a
    bridge
;

    pons fieri jussus est, a bridge was ordered built;

    milites castris exire vetiti sunt, the troops were forbidden to go out
    of the camp
;

    Sestius Clodium accusare non est situs, Sestius was not allowed to
    accuse Clodius
.

  b) videor, I am seen, I seem; as,—­

    videtur comperisse, he seems to have discovered.

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