I discuss the use of the aorist infinitive in a corpus of Greek literary texts that date back to the first and second centuries AD, drawing attention to a potential parallel between the use of the aorist infinitive in this corpus and the aorist injunctive in Vedic Sanskrit. These data suggest that the Greek aorist infinitive encoded the perfective aspect rather than (relative) tense – which appears to remain a controversial issue – and that, as a result, it conveyed anteriority in specific, predictable contexts. This view contrasts with earlier approaches such as those of Miller (2002: 34) and Bary (2012: 43), who relate the use of the aorist infinitive conveying anteriority to its tense marker. Furthermore, my data indicate that in the period investigated the aorist infinitive, when used in declarative infinitive clauses, underwent a significant decline, which resulted from the spread of the perfect infinitive in this construction (Kavčič 2016; cf. Bentein 2018: 94). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]