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—§102 THE VEEB.—TENSES. .47verb, and must be rendered accordingly ;as, dlcit se scripturumesse, " he says that he will write ;"—Pass., domum cedificdtumIri, u that the house will be built—dixit ;" se scripturum esse,"he said that he would write ;"—Pass., domum cedificatum Iri," that the house would be built." For all these, see 180.4. The future infinitive active is compound, being made upof esse, or fuisse, and the participle in rus, agreeing in gender,number, and case, with the accusative before it, or with thenominative of the leading verb. With esse, it corresponds tothe future indicative; with fuisse, to the future-perfect; as,Dlcit eos scripturos esse,Dixit se scripturum esse,Dlcit se scripturum fuisse,Dixit earn scripturam fuisse,Dicltur scripturus esse,He says that they will write.He said that he would write.He says that he would have written.He said that she would have written,He is said to be about to write.Note 1. Esse and fuisse, in the future infinitive, are generally understood;thus, dixit se scripturum ; and so of others.5. When the leading verb is in the future tense, the infinitivemood will be properly translated in its own tense,not inthat of the leading verb ; as, dlcet se scribere, " he will say thathe is writing ," dlcet se scripsisse, " he will say that he haswritten ;" dlcet se scripturum esse, " he will say that he willwrite;" se scripturum fuisse, " that he would have written." Soalso in the passive voice.6. The perfect infinitive passive is made up of esse or fuisse rand the perfect participle in us, agreeing in gender, numberand case with the accusative before it, or with the nominativeof the leading verb, when that is in the passive voice ; as, dlcitlitems scriptas esse, " he says that letters were written ;" litercedicuntur scriptce esse, " letters are said to have been written,"&c. Esse and fuisse are sometimes understood. SeeNote 1 above.7. The future infinitive passive is also a compound tense,consisting of the former supine, and Iri, the present infinitivepassive of eo; as, scriptum Iri, "to be about to be written."8. The future infinitive of deponent verbs (207) is madewith esse or fuisse, and the participle in rus, as in the activevoice (No. 4 above), and not like the future infinitive passive.9. When the verb in the active voice has no supine, andconsequently no participle in rus, there can, of course, be nofuture infinitive. In this case, the want of it is supplied by