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112 SYNTAX. [PAKT III12. The infinitive, even without the prepositionLe, has often a passive signification; aspiacpamac Gilene cigeapna "THugoopn bo liiapbab,"Fiachra, son of Ailene, lord of Mourne, to beslain" (lit. "Fiachra, &c, to slay") agup an peap:pin uaib, a pp6n Oo buuinnac ciobpao (an cfop)6na ceunn " Oe, and the man who would not paythat tribute from him, his nose to be cut off fromhis head."13. One verb governs another that follows it ordepends upon it in the infinitive mood ;as bam-bab nac pacpao clanna llloipne o'lappuib na5-caop " pin, if it were so that the Clann Mornahad not come to seek those berries."The following very important rule was first enunciated byO'Donovan, and is given here in his own words (" Irish Grammar,"p. 387.)14. " When the governed verb is one expressingmotion or gesture, which does not govern theaccusative, the sign Oo is never prefixed; as bubaipcp6 lioin oul 50 Copcaig, he told me to go to Cork."15. If the noun which is the object of a transitiveverb in the infinitive mood follows the verb, itis in the genitive case; as cansaoap cablac m6p"bo beanaiii C051110, a great fleet came to maketear'' (noni. C05U&, war, yen. coguib) ; Oo liulleabcloinne Lip, "to kill the children of Lir."16. A noun or pronoun which is the object of atransitive verb in the infinitive mood often precedesthe verb, and in this case it is (not in thegenitive, as in the last rule, but) in the accusative;as, a^up lpeao Oo 51110b, bd cuaille bo Cup 10-culliiamagup ceann an c-pndice bo ceun^at t)a 50ccuuillebiob, a^up ubullbo cup aip lhuLlac cuuilloaca, "and it is what he used to do, two poles to putin the earth, and the end of a thread to tie to eachpolo of them, and an apple to put on the top of apolo of them."