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gebyrian, befitting 
L. 13.16: ne gebyrede hyre beon unbunden of bissum bende on restedsege? 
= filiam . . . non oportuit solvi a vinculo isto die sabbati? — lb. 17.25: JEryst 
him gebyreS bset he fela binga bolige, and beon fram bisse cneorysse aworpen 
= Primum autem oportet ilium multa pati, et reprobari a generatione hac. 
gedafenian, befitting: 
Ml}. L. S. XXX. 125: swa be eac gedafenaS to efstenne . . . and . . . beon 
gecostnod. 
gelimpan, happen: 
Bede 382.13: ba gelamp him . . . burh reliquias . . . gehceledne beon 
= 280.3: contigit eum . . . per . . . reliquias sanari. 
lystan, please: 
Wcerf. 287.14: ba buhte hire, bset hire lyste beon to bam maegdenum ge&eoded 
= 348 C: Quibus ilia cum admisceri appeteret. 
For the subjective infinitive in the other Germanic languages, see Chapter 
XVI, section i. 
NOTES. 
1. The Subjective Infinitive in a Series. — In the following passages, quoted on the pages 
indicated, we have a series of infinitives in which the first is inflected, but the succeeding is 
not: Ml}. Horn. II. 318 m 1>2 , p. 16; Ml}. L. S. 240.30, 31, p. 16; ib. 308.30, 32, p. 17; ib.XXV. 
144 a> b , p. 15; Mk. 3.4 a,b,c , p. 14; L. 11.42 a,b , p. 15. In the following passages we have a 
series of infinitives in which each infinitive i3 inflected: — (1) with active verbs: Boeth. 
139.29, 30; Greg. 151.8 b , 9 a ’ b ; ib. 203.17, 18; ib. 217.12 a ’ b ; Oros. 44.14 a * b ; Solil. 32.16 a * b ; ib. 
59.33 a> b ; Wcer}. 334.22, 23; Bened. 10.3 a > b ; Ml}. Horn. I. 362 b ^ 2 , II. 444 b ^ *; Ml}. L. S. 
XXIII B. 228 a,b ; Wul}. 211.24 a,b ; ib. 241.21 a,b ; Minor Prose: Cato 63 a> b ; Poems: Ps. 
117.8 a ’ b ; ib. U7.9 a ’ b ; —(2) with passive verbs: Wul}. 227.12 a ’ b , 13; ib. 285.12, 13. —It 
seems useless to give the series in which each infinitive is uninflected. 
2. The Infinitive Occasionally Alternates with a Clause , as in Oros. 106.24, quoted on p. 16 
above; Ml}. Horn. I. 164*, quoted on p. 8; Mat. 19.24, quoted on p. 11; and L. 17.25 (pas¬ 
sive infinitive), quoted on p. 27. Dr. Kellner, in his “ Abwechselung und Tautologie,” p. 6, 
cites the passage from Orosius (but not the others), and seems to consider it an example of con¬ 
scious variation for the sake of variety, and it may be; but to me the variation in each of 
the examples that I here cite seems due to chance rather than to conscious art. 
3. The Infinitive Alternates with a Noun in Wul}. 196.7 (has lyfta and windas he astyrah 
to ban swibe, bset mannum SincA heora dead leo}ra, bonne bone egesan to gehyranne ) and in 
Bl. Horn. 137.15 (quoted on p. 19). 
