PREDICATIVE INFINITIVE WITH VERBS OF MOTION AND REST. 91 
Boeth. 8.16: ba com baer gan in to me heofencund Wisdom = 4.2: adstitisse 
mihi supra uerticem uisa est mulier. 
Beow. 1163: Da cwom Wealhbeo forb gan. — lb. 1644: Da com in gan ealdor 
begna (may be final, as Dr. Shearin, 2 l. c., p. 237, holds). 
Pr. Gu. I. 26: ba com baer sum wif yrnan of (5am huse, . . . and cleopode 
" ecce ex aula propriante (sic!), . . . mulier . . . currens clamabat. 
Mlj. L. S. XXXI. 1039: (5a com baer faerlice yrnan an bearle wod cu. [Cf. 
ib. XXXI. 1043: com . . . yrnende.] 
Rid. 23.2: iEtsomne cwom sixtig monna to waegstaebe wicgum ridan. 
Pr. Gu. V. 7: (5a comon semninga twegen deoflu to him of baere lyfte slidan , 
and ba to him cublice spraecon and cwaedon = subito coram illo, velut ex aere 
lapsi, efferis vultibus duo zabuli humano habitu se obtulerunt, ac etc. 
daelan, distribute, diffuse: 
Gen. 2192: tungel, ba nu rume heora wuldorfsestne wlite wide dcelad ofer 
brad brymu beorhte scinan (or may be final?). 
fleon, flee: 
Doomsday 240: se earma ftyh& uncraeftiga slaep, sleac mid sluman slincan 
on hinder. 
gewitan, go, depart: 
Beow. 124: banon eft gewat hube hremig to ham faran. 
Beow. 27: Him ba Scyld gewat to gescaephwile felahror feran on frean waere 
(predicative according to Dr. Riggert, l. c., p. 39, but final according to Dr. 
Shearin, 2 1. c., p. 237). 
And. 786: Gewat he t5a feran. 
Gen. 1471: gewat fleogan eft mid lacum hire. 
Gen. 1050: Him (5a Cain gewat gongan geomormod gode of gesyhbe. 
And. 238: Gewat . . . gang an on greote. 
Beow. 234: Gewat him (5a to warobe wicge ridan begn Hrobgares. 
Beow. 2569, 2570: Gewat 35a byrnende gebogen scriSan, to gescipe scyndan. 
Gen. 2161: Gewat him ba se healdend ham siSian. 
The predicative use of the infinitive after verbs of motion is common in the 
Low Germanic languages: see Chapter XVI, section v. 
Occasionally, too, after verbs of rest we have a similar predicative use of 
an infinitive, as in the following: — Mlj. L. S. 512.417: Da gelamp hit on bam 
dagum be bas forsprecenan binge gewurdon, baet god selmihtig gescifte aenne 
swa geradne mann, be ahte geweald ealles baes splottes aet celian dune, baer baet 
scraef waes tomiddes be ba seofon halgan lagon inne slapan; 1 — And. 1712: 
Hie ba gebrohton aet brimes naesse on waegbele wigan unslawne; stodon him 
ba on ofre aefter reotan (but Dr. Riggert, l. c. p. 45, considers the infinitive 
final in sense); — Pr. Gu. V. 274 a * b : ba geseah he baer standan twegen bara 
awerigdra gasta wepan swybe and geomrian = a sinistra stantes duos satellites 
lugentes . . . conspicit (or possibly wepan and geomrian are co-ordinate with 
standan?). In the former of the two following examples the infinitive may be 
predicative, but it is more probably final in each: Mlj . Hept.: Judges 4.18 b : He 
eode ba in earhlice swibe, and seo wimman mid hire hwitle bewreah hine sona, 
let hine liegan swa cetlutian his feondum = Qui ingressus tabernaculum ejus 
1 Cf. Einenkel,* l. c., p. 1076. 
