Verbs of the infinitive mood are put after some verbs, participles, and
adjectives, and substantives also by the poets, as
Timotheus ursos saltare fecit:
Timotheus made the bears dance.
This was done in ancient as it is in modern times, by playing the
Pandean pipes.
Inconcinnus erat cerni Telamonius Ajax;
Ajax (ut referunt) vir bonus ire minor:
The Telamonian Ajax was a rum un to look at;
The lesser Ajax (as they say) a good un to go.
The Grecians used to call Ajax senior, the _fighting cock_, and Ajax
junior, the _running cock_.
Verbs of the infinitive mood are sometimes placed alone by the figure
ellipsis, as
Siphonum de more oculis demittere fluctus Dardanidæ:
The Trojans (began understood) to pipe their eyes.
As for Æneas he might have been a town _crier_.