118 THE PREDICATIVE INFINITIVE WITH ACCUSATIVE SUBJECT, 
secgan, say, relate: 
Bede 340.20, 22: hire saegde . . . Hilde ... of worulde geleoran 7 ... to 
. . . leohte . . . astigan = 257.24, 27: nuntiauit matrem . . . Hild . . . mi- 
grasse . . . et . . . ascendisse. 
L. 24.23: engla gesihbe, (5a secgaS hine lybban = qui dicunt eum vivere. 
6 . Other Verbs: habban, have, and todaelan, divide: 
JElf. Horn . II. 440 m : Seo swuster hi wolde habban to hire bysegan. 
Oros. 46.16, 17, concerning which see Chapter XII, pp. 169 ff. 
II. INFLECTED. 
Occasionally we seem to have an inflected infinitive as the quasi-predicate 
of an accusative subject. As indicated below, some of the examples admit of 
other explanations; but a few of them seem to me to belong here. I discuss 
the cases under the same general groups as I did the uninflected predicative 
infinitive. The examples occur in the prose texts only. 
Under Verbs of Causing we have don, make, cause, and its compound, gedon, 
make, cause. The verbs of compelling ( geniedan, neadian, niedan, etc.) might 
be put here, but the infinitive after them seems to me consecutive rather than 
predicative: see Chapter XII. I give all the examples that I have observed: — 
don, make, cause: 
Bede 334.18 a : heo . . . leornunge . . . gewreota . . . 7 . . . weorcum hire 
Under'Seodde dyde to bigongenne = 254.18: Tantum lectioni . . . scripturarum 
suos uacare subditos, tantum operibus iustitiae se exercere faciebat. 
Greg. 357.5: Swa hwa swa urum wmrdum & gewritum hieran nylle, do hit 
mon us to witanne = 276.10: Si quis non obedit verbo nostro per epistolam, 
hunc notate (or final? see Oros. 126.131 under gedon below). 
Chron. 257 m , 1127 E e : se ilce Heanri dide bone king to understandene baet 
he haefde laeten his abbotrice. — lb. 259*, 1128 E: He dide bone king to under- 
standen (sic!) baet he wolde . . . forlaeten bone minstre. 
gedon, make, cause: 
Oros. 126.31: Genoh sweotollice us gedyde nu to witanne Alexander hwelce 
ba haebnan godas sindon to weorbianne, baet etc. = 0. [Or is us dative, 
as is claimed by Matzner, l. c., Ill, p. 12, who compares the New High 
German Ich thue Dir zu wissenf The examples of the infinitive after don given 
above argue for the accusative and the predicative infinitive, but the follow¬ 
ing example from Cato 10 argues for the dative and the final infinitive: Donne 
bu eald sie and manegra ealdra cwidas and lara geaxod haebbe, gedo hie bonne 
bam geongum to witanne. Likewise, the following passage from Otfrid argues 
for the dative and the final infinitive: I, 17, 48: duet ouh thanne iz mir zi 
wizzanne. See Chapter XVI, section x, and cf. Wiilfing , 2 l. c., II, p. 209; De 
Reul, l. c., p. 131; and Kenyon, l. c., p. 103.] 
Verbs of Mental Perception: — 
findan, find. laeran, teach. 
gereccan, direct. taecan, teach. 
The examples in full follow: — 
findan, find: 
