Articular infinitive

§1153 fSUBSTANTIVE-MAKING POWER OF THE ARTICLEThe article has the power to make substantival any word or words to which it is prefixed. a. Adjectives: ὁ σοφός the wise man, τὸ δίκαιον justice. b. Participles (with indefinite f…

§§2025–2030THE INFINITIVE WITH THE ARTICLE (ARTICULAR INFINITIVE)The articular infinitive, while having the character of a substantive, retains the functions of a verb. In its older use the articular infinitive is a subject or object; the neares…

§2031THE INFINITIVE WITH THE ARTICLE (ARTICULAR INFINITIVE)NOMINATIVE OF THE ARTICULAR INFINITIVE Subject (1984): νέοις τὸ σῑγᾶν κρεῖττόν ἐστι τοῦ λαλεῖν in the young silence is better than speech Men. Sent. 387, τὸ Πελοποννησίους αὐτοῖς μ…

§2032THE INFINITIVE WITH THE ARTICLE (ARTICULAR INFINITIVE)GENITIVE OF THE ARTICULAR INFINITIVE a. The genitive of the articular infinitive is used to limit the meaning of substantives, adjectives, and verbs. b. Adnominal (1290): τοῦ πιεῖν…

§1322GENITIVE OF EXPLANATION (APPOSITIVE GENITIVE)The genitive of an explicit word may explain the meaning of a more general word. Ῑ̓λίου πόλις E 642, as urbs Romae, ἄελλαι παντοίων ἀνέμων blasts formed of winds of every sort ε 29…

§2033THE INFINITIVE WITH THE ARTICLE (ARTICULAR INFINITIVE)DATIVE OF THE ARTICULAR INFINITIVE a. With verbs, adjectives, and adverbs: thus, ἵνα . . . ἀπιστῶσι τῷ ἐμὲ τετῑμῆσθαι ὑπὸ δαιμόνων that they may distrust my having been honoured by…

§2034THE INFINITIVE WITH THE ARTICLE (ARTICULAR INFINITIVE)ACCUSATIVE OF THE ARTICULAR INFINITIVE a. Object (cp. 1989): δείσᾱς τὸ ζῆν fearing to live P. A. 28d, μεῖζον μέν φαμεν κακὸν τὸ ἀδικεῖν, ἔλᾱττον δὲ τὸ ἀδικεῖσθαι we call doing wron…

§2035OTHER USES OF THE ARTICULAR INFINITIVEApposition (cp. 1987). The articular infinitive, in any case, is often used in apposition to a preceding word, especially a demonstrative. τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ ἀδικεῖν, τὸ πλέον τῶν ἄλλων…

§2036OTHER USES OF THE ARTICULAR INFINITIVEIn Exclamation (cp. 2015).—Thus, τῆς τύχης· τὸ ἐμὲ νῦν κληθέντα δεῦρο τυχεῖν my ill-luck! that I should happen now to have been summoned hither! X. C. 2.2.3.

§2037OTHER USES OF THE ARTICULAR INFINITIVEWith Adjuncts.—The articular infinitive may take various adjuncts including dependent clauses, the whole forming one large substantival idea. τὸ μὲν γὰρ πόλλ᾽ ἀπολωλεκέναι κατὰ τὸν…

§2038CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE INFINITIVE WITH VERBS OF hinderingVerbs signifying (or suggesting) to hinder take both the simple infinitive and the articular infinitive. Such verbs may take the strengthening but redundant negative μή (2739); and…

§2744I. With the Infinitive depending on Verbs of Negative MeaningSummary of Constructions after Verbs of Hindering, etc. After verbs signifying (or suggesting) to hinder and the like, the infinitive admits the article τό or τοῦ (the ablatival ge…

§2238OTHER CONSTRUCTIONS WITH VERBS OF FEARINGWith the Infinitive.—Verbs of fearing often take an object infinitive (present, future or aorist) with or without the article; and with or without μή (2741). Thus, φοβήσεται ἀδικεῖ…

§2383 c N.TEMPORAL CLAUSESTemporal clauses are introduced by conjunctions or relative expressions having the force of conjunctions A. Denoting time usually the same as that of the principal verb: ὅτε, ὁπότε…

§2711οὐ AND μή WITH THE INFINITIVEThe infinitive not in indirect discourse has μή; the infinitive in indirect discourse has οὐ, but sometimes μή. The articular infinitive has μή. On the use with μὴ οὐ see 2742 ff. …

§2712οὐ AND μή WITH THE INFINITIVEμή is used with the articular infinitive. παράδειγμα τοῦ μὴ ῡ̔μᾶς ἀδικεῖν a warning not to injure you L. 27.5, ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ τὸ κελευόμενον ποιῆσαι in order to avoid doing what was c…

§2749II. μὴ οὐ with the Infinitive depending on Negatived VerbsInstead of μὴ οὐ we find also μή, τὸ μή, τοῦ μή, τὸ μὴ οὐ (but not τοῦ μὴ οὐ). a. μή (rarely; cp. 2744. 1): ἔλεγον ὅτι . . . οὐ δυνήσοιντο μὴ πείθεσθαι τοῖς Οηβαίοις they said that…