§509. Supine

The Supine in -um is used after verbs of motion to express purpose. It may take an object in the proper case:—

• quid est, īmusne sessum? etsī admonitum vēnimus tē, nōn flāgitātum (De Or. 3.17), how now, shall we be seated? though we have come to remind, not to entreat you.
• nūptum dare (collocāre), to give in marriage.
• vēnērunt questum iniūriās (Liv. 3.25), they came to complain of wrongs.

• fuēre cīvēs quī rem pūblicam perditum īrent (Sall. Cat. 36), there were citizens who went about to ruin the republic.
• sī scīret sē trucīdātum īrī (Div. 2.22), if he (Pompey) had known that he was going to be murdered. [Rare except in Cicero. For the more usual way of expressing the future passive infinitive, see § 569. 3. a.]