The Subject Accusative of the Infinitive is regularly expressed in Indirect Discourse, even if it is wanting in the direct: ōrātor sum , I am an orator; dīcit sē esse ōrātōrem , he says he is an orator. But the subject is often omitted if easily understood:— īgnōscere imprūdentiae dīxit (B. G. 4.27) , he said he pardoned their rashness. eadem ab aliīs quaerit: reperit esse vēra ( id . 1.18), he inquires about these same things from others; he finds that they are true. After a relative, or quam ( than ), if the verb would be the same as that of the main clause, it is usually omitted, and its subject is attracted into the accusative:— tē suspicor eīsdem rēbus quibus mē ipsum commovērī ; ( Cat. M. 1 ), I suspect that you are disturbed by the same things as I. cōnfīdō tamen haec quoque tibi nōn minus grāta quam ipsōs librōs futūra (Plin. Ep. 3.5.20) , I trust that these facts too will be no less pleasing to you than the books themselves. In poetry, by a Greek idiom, a Predicate Noun or Adjective in the indirect discourse sometimes agrees with the subject of the main verb:— vir bonus et sapiēns ait esse parātus (Hor. Ep. 1.7.22) , a good and wise man says he is prepared , etc. [In prose: ait sē esse parātum .] sēnsit mediōs dēlāpsus in hostīs (Aen. 2.377) , he found himself fallen among the foe. [In prose: sē esse dēlāpsum .]

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