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[*] 100. Verbs of hoping, expecting, promising, and swearing form an intermediate class between those that take the infinitive in indirect discourse and other verbs (136). When they refer to a future object, they naturally take the future infinitive, but may also have the present or aorist infinitive (not in indirect discourse) like verbs of wishing, etc. Thus he promised to give may be ὑπέσχετο διδόναι (or δοῦναι) as well as ὑπέσχετο δώσειν. To facilitate comparison, the examples of the present and aorist infinitive thus used are given with those of the future in 136.
Macmillan. London, Melbourne, Toronto. 1889. reprint edition:. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1965.
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