120 THE PREDICATIVE INFINITIVE WITH ACCUSATIVE SUBJECT. 
inflected infinitive; two (after foresecgan) are probably due to the desire to 
i denote futurity, as one other ( Luke 1.73*, translating a Latin future participle) 
undoubtedly is, for, as iElfric, l. c., 246, tells us, the denotation of futurity is 
one function of the inflected infinitive. The clearest cases occur in the later 
Chronicle and in TElfric, by which time the distinction between the two infini¬ 
tives had begun to break down appreciably. 
B. THE PASSIVE INFINITIVE. 
The passive infinitive with accusative subject as object of active verbs is 
very rare in Anglo-Saxon, only about 52 examples having been found. It is 
almost unknown in the poems, only two examples having been found (with 
Icetan: see below). 
Verbs of Commanding: — 
bebeodan, command. hatan, command. 
biddan, request. 
The examples in full are: — 
bebeodan, command: 
Bede 14.13: hebead deofolgyld beon toworpene = 0. —172.9: behead 5aet 
feowertiglice fcesten healden beon = 142.8 b : ieunium xl dierum obseruari . . . 
praecepit. 
biddan, request: 
Bede 38.31: bced . . . Albanus fram Gode him wceter seald beon to sumre 
his 5enunge = 21.1: Albanus dari sibi a Deo aquam rogavit. 
hatan, command: 
Bede 18.2: mid . . . gewritum 7 stsefcraftum hi georne het beon gelcerede 
= 204.11: coeperint studiis imbui. 
Wcerf. 194.18: “5a het he 5ysne biscop beon gelceded to 5sere stowe = 237 B 1 : 
hunc . . . jus sit deduci. 
Verbs of Causing and Permitting: — 
don, make , cause. laetan, allow. 
forlaetan, allow. 
The examples in full are: — 
don, make , cause: 
Wulf. 196.2: see he de& on lytelre hwile beon ungemetlice . . . astyrode. 
forlaetan, allow: 
Bl. Horn. 33.11: se hine sylfne forlet from deofles leomum & from yflum 
mannum beon on rode ahangenne. 
A. S. Horn. & L. S. II. 18.237: 5a ne forlet 5sere lyfte smyltnes [aenig Sing] 
wesan gederede . 
laetan, allow: 
Gen. 2194: Ne leet 5u 5i nferhd wesan sorgum asceled. 
Gu. 1235: nelle ic Icetan Se aefre unrotne aefter ealdorlege me5ne modseocne 
minre geweor&an soden sorgwselmum. 
Wcerf. 294.6: his gecorenan, <5a 5onne hwae5re he ne loete<5 na beon forholene 
sefter dea5e = 356 A 2 : quos non . . . patitur celari. 
