dīcitur in Italiam vēnisse, he is said to have come into Italy;
Rōmulus prīmus rēx Rōmānōrum fuisse putātur, Romulus is thought to have been the first king of the Romans.
d) fertur, feruntur, trāditur, trāduntur (only in the third person); as,—
fertur Homērus caecus fuisse, Homer is said to have been blind;
carmina Archilochī contumēliīs referta esse trāduntur, Archilochus's poems are reported to have been full of abuse.
NOTE.—In compound tenses and periphrastic forms, the last two classes of verbs, c), d), more commonly take the impersonal construction; as—
trāditum est Homērum caecum fuisse, the story goes that Homer was blind.
Infinitive with Adjectives.
[333]. The Infinitive with Adjectives (except parātus, assuētus, etc.; see [§ 328], 1) occurs only in poetry and post-Augustan prose writers; as,—
contentus dēmōnstrāsse, contented to have proved;
audāx omnia perpetī, bold for enduring everything.
Infinitive in Exclamations.
[334]. The Infinitive is used in Exclamations implying scorn, indignation, or regret. An intensive -ne is often attached to some word in the clause. Examples:—