658 Simple sentences and principal clauses (not interrogative) in
indirect quotation are put in the infinitive after certain verbs
([577](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-577.html), [578](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-578.html), [579](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-579.html))--after φημι, οἴομαι, and νομίζω regularly in prose,
seldom after λέγω and εἶπον, except in the sense of bid.