126 THE PREDICATIVE INFINITIVE WITH ACCUSATIVE SUBJECT. 
declinantes in malo, et inutiles factos aliqua hora aspiciat Deus; Bl. Horn. 177.15 a,b : mon 
geseah hine blinde onlyhtende , & hreofe clcensian. 
4. An Infinitive Phrase Introduced by “ Beet.” — Occasionally in the Blickling Homilies 
we have the infinitive phrase introduced by the conjunction Sect: 217.21: Da he ba Sanctus 
Martinus baet geseah , Sect ba obre broSor ealle swa unrote ymb beet lie utan standan (sic!), be 
(sic!) weop he & eode into him; 45.19: gif he ne ge&afah Scet Godes folc heora lif on woh 
lybban (or subjunctive?); in Bede: 440.24, 25: bset we gemundon Soette usse deede 7 usse 
geSohtas . . . in idelnesse tofiowenne, ah . . . gehaldene beon =313.11, 12: ut meminerimus 
facta et cogitationes nostras non in uentum diffiuere, sed . . . seruari; and in iElfrics’s Lives 
of Saints: 108.323, 324: Ge&afa &cet min modor me gesprcecan and sume breo niht on minum 
rsede beon. Cf. Note 5 to Chapter IV. 
5. Inflected Infinitive without “ To.” — An inflected infinitive without to is found in JElf. 
L. S. XXXI. 980, quoted on p. 119 above. 
6 . The Accusative Subject of the Passive Infinitive Is to Be Supplied in Wcerf. 337.20 a * b : 
swa bu sylf gelomlice gehyrdest mid me beon seed 7 reht be sumum halgum were = 405 C 2 : 
sicut narrari de quodam sancto viro mecum frequenter audisti; or one may prefer to consider 
the infinitive as merely objective. 
7. The Infinitive “ Beon ” or “ Wesan ” May Be Supplied in such sentences as the fol¬ 
lowing, but this is not necessary: Greg. 291.21,22: buton bset he ongeat Titum hwene 
monbwaerran & gebyldigran bonne he sceolde, & Timotheus (sic!) he ongeat hatheortran 
bonne he sceolde = 220.22: nisi quod mansuetioris spiritus Titum , et paulo ferventioris 
vidit esse Timotheum. 
8 . Position of the Accusative Subject. — Normally the accusative subject precedes its 
predicative infinitive, but occasionally it follows the infinitive, in both objective and sub¬ 
jective phrases, as in the following passages, quoted on the pages indicated: Gen. 438 a and 
1439, p. Ill; Mlf. L. S. 18.147, p. 112; Beow. 786 and 787, p. 113; Oros. 162.6, 7, p. 114; 
Woerf. 74.20, p. 117; Mat. 17.10, p. 124; etc. 
