_I desire to be lenient_;

Timoleon maluit se diligi quam metui, _Timoleon preferred to be loved
rather than feared_.

b. Volo also admits the Subjunctive, with or without ut; nolo the
Subjunctive alone. (See Sec. 296, 1, a.)

V. With Verbs of _emotion_ (_joy_, _sorrow_, _regret_, etc.), especially
gaudeo, laetor, doleo; aegre fero, moleste fero, graviter fero, _am
annoyed_, _distressed_; miror, queror, indignor; as,--

gaudeo te salvum advenire, _I rejoice that you arrive safely_;

non moleste ferunt se libidinum vinculis laxatos esse, _they are not
troubled at being released from the bonds of passion_;

miror te ad me nihil scribere, _I wonder that you write me nothing_.

a. Instead of an Infinitive these verbs also sometimes admit a quod-
clause as Object. (See Sec. 299.) Thus:--

miror quod non loqueris, _I wonder that you do not speak_.

VI. Some verbs which take two Accusatives, one of the Person and the other
of the Thing (Sec. 178, 1), may substitute an Infinitive for the second
Accusative; as,--

cogo te hoc facere, _I compel you to do this_ (_cf._ te hoc cogo);

docui te contentum esse, _I taught you to be content_ (_cf._ te
modestiam docui, _I taught you temperance_).

Passive Construction of the Foregoing Verbs.

332. Those verbs which in the Active are followed by the Infinitive with
Subject Accusative, usually admit the personal construction of the Passive.
This is true of the following and of some others:--

a) jubeor, vetor, sinor; as,--

milites pontem facere jussi sunt, _the soldiers were ordered to build a
bridge_;

pons fieri jussus est, _a bridge was ordered built_;

milites castris exire vetiti sunt, _the troops were forbidden to go out
of the camp_;

Sestius Clodium accusare non est situs, _Sestius was not allowed to
accuse Clodius_.

b) videor, _I am seen_, _I seem_; as,--

videtur comperisse, _he seems to have discovered_.

c) dicor, putor, existimor, judicor (in all persons); as,--

dicitur in Italiam venisse, _he is said to have come into Italy_;

Romulus primus rex Romanorum fuisse putatur, _Romulus is thought to
have been the first king of the Romans_.

d) fertur, feruntur, traditur, traduntur (only in the third person);
as,--

fertur Homerus caecus fuisse, _Homer is said to have been blind_;

carmina Archilochi contumeliis referta esse traduntur, _Arc