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The Infinitive.
Infinitive without the Article: Infinitive as Subject,
Predicate, or Appositive.
Infinitive as Object.
Object Infinitive not in Indirect Discourse.
Infinitive in Indirect Discourse.
Infinitive after Adjectives, Adverbs, and Nouns.
Infinitive of Purpose.
Absolute Infinitive.
Infinitive in Commands and Prohibitions for the Imperative.
Infinitive in Wishes and Exclamations.
Infinitive with the Article.
Articular Infinitive as Subject or Object.
Infinitive with
τό
, after Adjectives and Nouns.
Infinitive with
τοῦ, τῷ
, and
τό
, as a Noun, in various Constructions.
Simple Infinitive and Infinitive with
τοῦ
, after Verbs of Hindrance, etc.
Infinitive with
τὸ
μή
, or
τὸ μὴ
οὐ
.
μὴ οὐ
with Infinitive and Participle, and (Rarely) with Nouns.
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Table of Contents:
Chapter II
Chapter IV
Section III: Subjunctive, like the Future Indicative, in
Independent Sentences.—Interrogative Subjunctive.
Peculiar Forms of Conditional Sentences: Substitution and
Ellipsis in Protasis.—Protasis without a Verb.
Homeric and other Poetic Peculiarities in Conditional
Relative Sentences: Subjunctive without
κέ
or
ἄν
.
Temporal Particles signifying Until and Before.:
ἕως
,
ὄφρα, εἰς ὅ
or
εἰσόκε, ἔστε, ἄχρι, μέχρι
, until.
Simple Sentences in Indirect Discourse: Indicative and
Optative after
ὅτι
and
ὡς
, and in Indirect
Questions.
Chapter V
Chapter VI
[*] 761. Certain impersonal verbs (like ἔνεστι, πρέπει, προσήκει), which regularly take an infinitive as their subject (745), are used in the participle in a personal sense with the infinitive, the participle having the force of one of the adjectives of 758. Thus τὰ ἐνόντα εἰπεῖν is equivalent to ἃ ἔνεστι εἰπεῖν, what it is permitted to say; τὰ προσήκοντα ῥηθῆναι is equivalent to ἃ προσήκει ῥηθῆναι, what is proper to be said, as if it represented a personal construction like ταῦτα προσήκει ῥηθῆναι, these things are becoming to be said. E.g. Κατιδὼν τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ἐνόντων εἰπεῖν, “seeing the number of things that may be said.” ISOC. v. 110. Τὸν θεὸν καλεῖ οὐδὲν προσήκοντ᾽ ἐν γόοις παραστατεῖν, “she is calling on the God who ought not to be present at lamentations.” AESCH. Ag. 1079. (Προσήκοντα is used like adjectives meaning fit, proper.) Φράζ, ἐπεὶ πρέπων ἔφυς πρὸ τῶνδε φωνεῖν. SOPH. O.T. 9.So τὰ ἡμῖν παραγγελθέντα διεξελθεῖν (= ἃ παρηγγέλθη ἡμῖν διεξελθεῖν). PLAT. Tim. 90 E.
Macmillan. London, Melbourne, Toronto. 1889. reprint edition:. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1965.
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