2166. The infinitive is sometimes used with adjectives, chiefly by poets
of the Augustan age, and late prose writers, often in imitation of a
Greek idiom: as,
#indoctum iuga ferre nostra#, H. 2, 6, 2, _not taught our yoke to bear_.
#avidī committere pugnam#, O. 5, 75, _hot to engage in fight_. #sōlī
cantāre perītī Arcades#, V. _E._ 10, 32, _Arcadians alone in minstrelsy
are skilled_. #vitulus niveus vidērī#, H. 4, 2, 59, _a bullock
snow-white to behold_, i.e. #vīsū# (2274). These infinitives are of
different kinds, some of them resembling a complementary infinitive,
others a gerund or gerundive construction, the supine in #-tū# (#-sū#),
&c., &c.