Vir doctus,1 cum de queestionibus quibusdam grammatica Graecae nuper disputaret, haec dixit: The simple infinitive of so-called purpose, whatever it was with Homer, as in 869 à'ryew, is in classic prose not a purpose in the great majority of cases, but a permission, or commission, or something analogous. There is no more purpose in eî'xeafie à'pxew you than in (xen. Hell. II, 3, 35) vrpoe', uevoc aòroòs à7ro7ke'ofiat. The limitations of this use of the infinitive I have never seen satisfactorily stated.'

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