TREATMENT   OF  THE  ENGLISH  INFINITIVE            147

march compelled the magistrates to surrender the town to us
at once.

I. ^ had ordered the necessary things ': when in English a noun
phrase is used with verbal force, the verb whose idea the noun ex¬
presses is usually employed in Latin. 2. ' defending.' 3. Make a
compound verb out of the two ideas ^ move' and ' forward.' 4. ad.
5. * no other thing' or ^nothing other.' 6. Plural. 7. Cf. 106,
example. 8. Find a synonym. 9. Say ' a rest of a whole night';
see 106.    10.  Superlative in Latin.
 

LESSON  XXXV

TREATMENT OF THE ENGLISH INFINITIVE

186.   The chief uses of the infinitive in English are:

a.   To complete the meaning of another verb; the comple¬
mentary infinitive.

b.   As the subject or object of another verb.

In both these uses it is translated by the infinitive in Latin.

a. He hastened to set out from the city, ab urbe proficisci maturavit;
b. it is better to suffer than to be killed, praestat pati quam interfici;
/ wish to go, ire volo.

187.   Subject of the infinitive.

Contrary to English usage, the infinitive in Latin takes a
subject freely, and this subject stands in the accusative case.
The infinitive with subject accusative, as well as the simple
infinitive, may stand in Latin as the subject or object of a verb
or as an appositive.

For the Germans to grow accustomed to cross the Rhine was danger¬
ous, he perceived, to the Roman people, Germanos consuescere Rhenum
transire populo Romano periculosum videbat; he orders Crassus
to set out, Crassum proficisci iubet; it seemed best to send Procillus,
commodissimum visum est Procillum mittere.