ACCI - ACCUSATIVUS CUM INFINITIVO

1. hortmur fr (Aen. 2.74) , we urge [him] to speak.

2. n quaere docr (id. 6.614), seek not to be told.
3. temptat praevertere (id. 1.721), she attempts to turn, etc.

[*] a. Iube, order, and vet, forbid, take the Infinitive with Subject Accusative:

1. Labinum iugum montis ascendere iubet (B. G. 1.21) , he orders Labienus to ascend the
ridge of the hill.
2. lbers ad s addc iussit (id. 2.5), he ordered the children to be brought to him.
3. ab opere lgts discdere vetuerat (id. 2.20), he had forbidden the lieutenants to leave the
work.
4. veture [bona] redd (Liv. 2.5) , they forbade the return of the goods (that the goods be
returned).

[*] NOTE.--Some other verbs of commanding etc. occasionally take the Infinitive:

1. pontem imperant fier (B. C. 1.61) , they order a bridge to be built.

rs monet cavre (Sall. Cat. 52.3), the occasion warns us to be on our guard.

With vol (nl, ml) and cupi the Infinitive is commoner, and the subject of the infinitive is
rarely expressed when it would be the same as that of the main verb.

With other verbs of wishing the Subjunctive is commoner when the subject changes, the
Infinitive when it remains the same.

Subject of dependent verb same as that of the verb of wishing:

augur fiervolu; (Fam. 15.4.13), I wished to be made augur.

1. cupi vigiliam meam tibi trdere (id. 11.24), I am eager to hand over my watch to you.

idicem m esse, nn doctrem vol; (Or. 117), I wish to be a judge, not a teacher.
m Caesaris mlitem dc volu; (B. C. 2.32.13), I wished to be called a soldier of Csar.

2. cupi m esse clmentem (Cat. 1.4) , I desire to be merciful. [But regularly, cupi esse
clmns (see 457).]

omns homins, qu ss student praestre cters animlibus (Sall. Cat. 1), all men who
wish to excel other living creatures.
Subject of dependent verb different from that of the verb of wishing:

3. vol t scre (Fam. 9.24.1) , I wish you to know.

4. vim volumus exstingu (Sest. 92) , we wish violence to be put down.
 5. t tu fru virtte cupimus (Brut. 331) , we wish you to reap the fruits of your
virtue.
6. cupi ut impetret (Pl. Capt. 102) , I wish he may get it.
7. numquam optb ut auditis (Cat. 2.15) , I will never desire that you shall hear.

[*] c. Verbs of permitting take either the Subjunctive or the Infinitive. Patior takes regularly the
Infinitive with Subject Accusative; so often sin :

[*] c. With iube , vet, and cg , the subject accusative of the infinitive becomes the subject
nominative of the main verb, and the infinitive is retained as complementary (Personal
Construction):

adesse iubentur postrdi; (Verr. 2.41), they are ordered to be present on the following day.

1. re in exsilium iussus est (Cat. 2.12) , he was ordered to go into exile.

2. Simnids vetitus est nvigre (Div. 2.134) , Simonides was forbidden to sail.
3. Mandubi exre cguntur (B. G. 7.78) , the Mandubii are compelled to go out.