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Infinitive: goal as satellite
ἥκει καιρὸς ἐκκαλύπτειν τὰ κρυπτά
‘The moment has come to reveal the secrets.’ (Longus 4.18)
The infinitive signals a goal as a satellite with verbs of motion, striving, giving and receiving.
Syntactic usage
This infinitive is usually active or middle, even when one would expect a passive infinitive.
Historical background
This construction shows that the infinitive both formally and functionally continues a dative noun (in this case, expressing goal).
Frequency
The infinitive of goal occurs as early as Homer, but becomes very common in the classical period.
δέκα δὲ τῶν νεῶν προύπεμψαν ἐς τὸν μέγαν λιμένα πλεῦσαί τε καὶ κατασκέψασθαι εἴ τι ναυτικόν ἐστι καθειλκυσμένον
[The Athenians] sent ten of their ships ahead to sail to the great harbour [of Syracuse] and see if a fleet had been launched. ֍
τούτων δὲ πορευομένων ἤρξατο ὁ Ἰησοῦς λέγειν τοῖς ὄχλοις περὶ Ἰωάννου· τί ἐξήλθατε εἰς τὴν ἔρημον θεάσασθαι; κάλαμον ὑπὸ ἀνέμου σαλευόμενον;
ἀλλὰ τί ἐξήλθατε ἰδεῖν; ἄνθρωπον ἐν μαλακοῖς ἠμφιεσμένον;
As they [= the followers of John the Baptist] were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A blade of grass blown about by the wind? No, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes?