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..,278 SYNTAX.—MOODS. § 145666.— Obs. 8. In many cases, tie infinitive after such verbs maybechanged for the infinitive with a subject ; as, cupio m e es.se c I erne u t c m.Cic. ; for esse clemens, or clementem. 326. Or, for the subjunctive with ut,or ne ; as, sententiam ne die ere t recusavit, for sententiam dicere.$Q —i Obs. 4. The infinitive without a subject is also used after adjectives,and nouns. So used, it is equivalent to a noun ia the case governedby such adjective or noun! See examples, 659-3, 4, 7.60S.— Obs. 5. Sometimes the infinitive is understood; as, ei provinnam Numidiam populiis jussit ; sc. dari.Note 1.—When the verbs possum, volo, nolo, mcllo, in the indicative orsubjunctive, are translated by the English auxiliaries can, will, will not,will rather ; or in the past tense by could, would, tfce., the infinitive followingis translated without to before it; as, potest fieri, "it- can be done;'5vdlo Ire, " I w^ill go ;" mdlo facer e, " I would rather do it ;" nollte timer-et" do not fear."Note 2.—The present infinitive is generally translated as the perfect,without to, when it comes after the imperfect, perfect, or pluperfect, ofpossum, volo, nolo, mdlo, translated could, would, would not, would rather ;and with to after the same tenses of debeo and oportet, translated ought ;as, melius fieri von potuit, " it could not have been done better;" voluidicere, " I would have said ;" sumere arma noluit, " he would not havetaken arms ;" dividi oportuit, " it ought to have been divided."