PREFACE. XXXvii 



appears as neuter ; Sibpsejic,' feminine. Hence the 

 Codex Exoniensis prefers to write J? jrlsej'cliojib.- 



Numorals admit of a substantive in the sino-ular, so Numerals with 

 tliat our traditional expressions, Twelvemonth, a Six '' ^'°''" ^'"" 

 foot rule, he weighs Twelve stone, are correct accord- 

 ing to ancient usage."' Distinction must be drawn be- 

 tween masculineSj which had a plural in s, and 

 feminines, as Night in Fortnight, or neuters, as in 

 Five pound note. Twelve horse power, for these had in 

 ancient time no s in the plural. Thus xii. mona];,'* 

 ]?pie cuclep;' did not require remark : similarly rpejen 

 fsetel]" yull ealaS,*"' nijantyne pmreji "j cjwjen mona]?," 

 iv. mona]),^ and the MS. reading in Beowulf, 4342," 

 may stand. 



Examples are not very rare in other works beside Idiomatic 

 this Leeclibook, when of a set of words under one opposition, 

 regimen, those that come last in order appear in the 

 nominative, that is, in no regimen at all. Thus 

 fopSpepbum Deuj'bebit; j-e Ajicebij'ceop, defuncto Deus- 

 dedit archieiyiscopo}'^ Fejibe |>a fi^San • -j jejretce 

 senne mpej'j'eppeoj'C policajipup jehaten • halij peji -j 

 jfnocop,^^ which would be literally, Deinde 'pTofectus 

 attulit 'pmshyterii')n, 'policarpus appellatus, vIt sanctus 

 atque prudens. ba seteopbe j-ebaj-tianup on ypgepne 

 anjie pubepan • lucma jecijeb ppi^e jepjzsefc man,'- which 

 would ])e equivalent to, Tvmc apparuU Sehastianus 

 in somnio viduro cuidam, Lucina nominata, homo 

 valde ndigiosa. This, when it comes to be acknow- 

 ledged generally, may be called Idiomatic ap])Osition. 



Harsh transitions in pronouns from plurals to sin- 

 gulars, and back again, are not peculiar to this work ; 



' Lb. p. 260, line 1. " OT, 256. 



- CE, 373, line 3. 

 ■' So in Gemian. 

 ' Lib. ni. xviii. 



' Lb, I. xvi. 2. Tpybsel, Lb. T. 

 i. 3, viii. 2, is a compound. 



Beda, 539. 23. 

 ■* Beda, 564. 13. 

 ■' Thorpe, 4355. 

 '" Beda, p. 503. line 6, 

 " MFT. 32 a. 



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