894. The active infinitive has the ending #-re# in the present, and
#-isse# in the perfect: as,
#dare#; #regere#, #capere#; #laudāre#, #monēre#, #audīre#. #rēxisse#;
#laudāvisse# or #laudāsse#, #monuisse#, #audīvisse# or #audīsse#.
895. For #-rē# in old Latin, see 134, 2. The infinitive of #fīō#,
_become_, ends in #-rī#, #fī̆erī#, with a passive ending (789); twice
#fīere# (Enn. Laev.). An older form for #-re# is #-se#, found in #esse#,
_to be_, #ēsse#, _to eat_, and their compounds. For #velle#, _to wish_
(#mālle#, #nōlle#), see 166, 8. In the perfect, #eō#, _go_, sometimes
has #-iisse# in compounds (766), and in poetry, #petō#, _go to_, has
rarely #petiisse#.
896. The present infinitive passive of verbs in #-ere# has the ending
#-ī#; that of other verbs has #-rī#: as,
#regī#, #capī#; #laudārī#, #monērī#, #audīrī#. #ferō#, _carry_, has
#ferrī#. The length of the #ī# is sometimes indicated by the spelling
#ei# (29, 2): as, DAREI.
897. A longer form in #-ier# for #-ī#, and #-rier# for #-rī#, is common
in old laws and dramatic verse, and occurs sometimes in other poetry:
as, FIGIER, _to be posted_, GNOSCIER, _to be read_ (inscr. 186 B.C.);
#dīcier#, _to be said_, #cūrārier#, _to be looked after_ (Plaut.);
#dominārier#, _to be lord paramount_ (Verg.).
898. The place of the perfect passive, future active, and future passive
infinitive is supplied by a circumlocution, as seen in the paradigms.
For the future perfect #-āssere#, see 887.