THE APPOSITIYE INFINITIVE. 
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na<5er 'Sara ne gesittan ne standan mihte = ut sedere aut stare vel jacere nequivis- 
set (see note to o&er below). 
oSer, one: 
Boeth. 53.20 a * b : Sa wilniaS oder twega, oSSe him selfe ricsian, o<5<5e hi to 
Saera ricena freondscipe geSiodan = 52.20, 21: hi uel regnare ipsi uolunt uel 
regnantibus adhaerere conantur (the infinitives may be considered appositive 
to the genitive, twega , but are more probably appositive to o&er: see examples 
from Orosius below). 
Oros. 44.9: secgan het Saet hie o$er sceolden, oSSe Saet land set him alesan, 
oSSe he hie wolde mid gefeohte fordon 7 forhergian = 0 . — lb. 120.31 a - b : 
<5aet hie siSSan o$er sceoldon, oSSe for metelieste heora lif alcetan oSSe Somnitum 
an hand gan = 0. — lb. 138.32 a ’ b : to tacne Saet hie o&er woldon, oSSe ealle 
libban oSSe ealle licgean = 0 . 
Maldon 208 a * b : hi woldon <5a ealle oder twega, lif forlcetan oSSe leofne 
gewrecan (see note to examples from Boethius above). 
weorc, work: 
Beow. 76: ic wide gefraegn weorc gebannan manigre maegSe geond Sisne 
middangeard, folcstede frcetwan. 
Bede 458.24: he aerest ongan <5aet weorc Cristes godspell Iceran = 326.18: 
ipse primus ibi opus euangelicum coepit. 
( 2 ) Inflected: 
segSer, each: 
Greg. 355.22 a> b : forSaem he wisse Saet hit biS swiSe unieSe ceg&er to donne, 
ge wdS Sone to cidanne Se yfel deS, ge eac sibbe wiS to habbenne = 276.1: Diffi¬ 
cile quippe erat ut si male acta corriperent, habere pacem cum omnibus possent. 
weorc, work: 
Bede 56.24: Agustinus . . . hwearf eft on Saet weorc Godes word to Iceranne 
7 com on Breotone = 44.29: A. . . . rediit in opus uerbi } peruenitque Britan- 
niam (or does to Iceranne modify weorc attributively instead of being apposi¬ 
tive thereto?). 
A careful inspection of the foregoing examples will show that normally the 
appositive infinitive is uninflected. If inflected, the infinitive is inflected 
because of its relative proximity to some word that is usually accompanied by 
the inflected infinitive (as aliefan: Solil. 16.16, 17; earliere: Mat. 9.5 a> b ; 
ea&re: Mk. 2.9 a , L. 5.23 b ; gebyrian: Pr. Ps. 39. Intr.; onhagian: Solil. 2.16, 
17; syn: Boeth. 84.32; unie&e: Greg. 355. 22 a> b ; behatan [(?): or on rihtf]: 
Chron. 227 b , 1093 a ). I know not how to account for the inflected infinitive in 
Chron. 227 b , 1093® (in which an inflected infinitive occurs after three preceding 
uninflected infinitives) unless it be due to the disturbing influence of rihte; in 
Bede 56.24, as there stated, the infinitive may modify the noun {weorc) as an 
attributive genitive instead of as an appositive. — In two instances {Mk. 2.9 b , 
L. 5.23 b , p. 75 above) the uninflected infinitive occurs in a series beginning 
with an inflected infinitive, while in one instance {Chron. 227 b , 1093 e ), as already 
stated, the reverse is the case. 
For the appositive infinitive in the other Germanic languages, see Chapter 
XVI, section iii. 
