Infinitive Mood.
Present, and Preterimperfect tense,
Amâre to love.
Preterperfect, and Preterpluperfect tense.
Amavisse to have or had loved.
Although the Infinitives in [rum] as amaturum, moniturum, and the like, were anciently used (when they answered without altering their termination) to every number and gender, as credo inimicos meos hoc dicturum, I believe that my enemies will say this; yet they are not now in use with the best Au∣thors, who supply this tense by the Participle in rus, alterable both in gender and number (of which infinitive Verbs are not capable) before esse or fore, as when we would say, I promise that I will satisfie, we say elegantly, promitto me satisfacturum, and so in the plural, nos, vos, aut illos satisfacturos esse pollicemur, we promise that we, ye, or they shal satisfie; Illae dixerunt se emptu∣ras, the Women said they would buy; and so in the neuter, by altering the gender to agree with the substantive. The like may be said for the future of the passive infinitive verb, by the parti∣ciple in dus.