Questions tagged [accusativus-cum-infinitivo]

I've been reading The Early Latin Verb by Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo, where in a footnote he writes: Synchronically, the participle here is best analysed as an elliptical perfect passive infinitive, although diachronically it is part of an older…

Suppose we had this sentence: Hannibal Romanos vicisset, nisi plurimi elephantes periissent. Now let's put this in indirect speech: *Credo Hannibalem vicisse. We want to say, "I believe that Hannibal would have won". But the above means…

In Q: Memento Mori--Revisited I attempted to develop the idea of C. M. Weimer that "Memento Mori" could be translated indirectly, giving "Remember that you can die"; improving, hopefully, to "Remember you are dying". This, fitting the required…