2189. (1.) The accusative with the infinitive is commonly used with
#volō# (#mālō#, #nōlō#), and #cupiō#, when the subject of the infinitive
is not the same as that of the verb: as,
#Catilīnam perīre voluī#, _Ph._ 8, 15, _I wished Catiline to die_.
#māluit hominēs peccāre quam deōs#, _V._ 2, 22, _he wanted men to sin
rather than gods_. #tē tuā fruī virtūte cupimus#, _Br._ 331, _we wish
you to reap the benefit of your high character_.
2190. (2.) Even when the subjects denote the same person, the accusative
is sometimes used with the infinitive: as,
#ēmorī mē mālim#, Pl. _As._ 810, #morī mē mālim#, T. _Eu._ 66, _I’d
rather die_. #magnuficē volō mē virōs summōs accipere#, Pl. _Ps._ 167,
_I’m going to entertain some highborn gentlemen in style_. Oftenest when
the infinitive is #esse#, #vidērī#, #putārī#, or #dīcī#: as, #cupiō mē
esse clēmentem, cupiō mē nōn dissolūtum vidērī#, _C._ 1, 4, _I wish to
play the man of mercy, and yet I do not wish to seem over lax_. Rarely
thus with #dēsīderō#, #nōlō#, #optō#, and #studeō#, and in Sallust with
#properō#.
2191. For the perfect active with these verbs, see 2228; for the perfect
passive, 2229.
2192. #volō#, #mālō#, and #cupiō# are often coordinated with the
subjunctive of desire (1707). #volō# and #mālō# often have the
subjunctive with #ut#, particularly in old Latin (1950).
2193. Verbs of resolving sometimes take the accusative with the
infinitive: as, #certum offirmāre est viam mē#, T. _Hec._ 454, _I am
resolved to hold the way_. So, from Cicero on, sometimes #cēnseō#,
#dēcernō#, and #sentiō#, in the exceptional sense of #volō# or #iubeō#,
_think it best_: as, #velle et cēnsēre eōs ab armīs discēdere#, S. _I._
21, 4, _that they wished and thought it best for those people to give up
fighting_.
2194. The accusative with the infinitive is sometimes used with verbs of
demanding: as, #hau postulō equidem mēd in lectō accumbere#, Pl. _St._
488, _I can’t expect, not I, to sprawl upon a couch_. #hīc postulat sē
absolvī?# _V._ 3, 138, _does this man ask to be acquitted?_ Similarly
with #ōrō# and #praecipiō# in late writers.
2195. The accusative with the infinitive is sometimes found with
#suādeō# and #persuādeō# in Terence, Lucretius, and Vergil, and with
#precor# in Ovid and late prose.