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THE FINAL INFINITIVE. 
Typical examples are: — 
1. Verbs of Motion: — 
genaegan, approach: 
Ex. 131: wiste gencegdon modige metebegnas hyra maegen beton (sic!). [The 
construction of beton is doubtful. In the original and in the recent editions 
of Grein’s Sprachschatz der Angelsacshischen Dichter and in Blackburn’s edi¬ 
tion of the Exodus , beton is entered as an infinitive; but in the latter with this 
query: “ or pt. 3 p. for betton (?).”] 
gengan, go: 
Beow. 1413: He . . . gengde . . . wong sceawian. 
gewitan, depart, go: 
Beow. 291: gewitaS forb beran waepen and gewaedu. —76. 1275: ba he hean 
gewat, dreame bedaeled deabwic geseon. — 76. 2820: him of hrebre gewat sawol 
secean sobfaestra dom. 
Gen. 1649: Gewiton him ba eastan sehta Icedan. — 76. 1920: Him ba Loth 
gewat land sceawigan be Iordane. 
hladan, load, draw: 
Greg. 469.7: Ac hladad iow nu drincan = 0. 
Wcerf. 220.22: baer hlodon heom drincan = 269 A 2 : ad bibendum hauriebant 
aquam. 
2. Verbs of Rest: — 
gesittan, sit: 
And. 1162: Gesceton searubancle sundor to rune ermbu eahtigan. [Or predi¬ 
cative? Dr. Riggert, l. c., p. 45, considers the infinitive final.] 
began, lie: 
JElf. Hept.: Judges 4.18 b : He eode ba in earhlice swibe, and seo wimman mid 
hire hwitle bewreah hine sona, let hine licgan swa cetlutian his feondum = Qui 
ingressus tabernaculum ejus et opertus ab ea pallio, dixit ad earn (or predi¬ 
cative? see Chapter V, pp. 91-92). 
3. Verbs of Commanding and Requesting: — 
abiddan, request: 
Bede 392.32: Wilt bu wit unc abidde (sic!) ondrmcan? = 286.13: Uis petarnus 
bibere 1 
biddan, request: 
Mlf. Hept.: Judges 4.19: bced him drincan, and heo him blibelice sealde, 
beheold hine eft = Da mihi, obsecro, paululum aquae, quia sitio valde! Quae 
dedit ei bibere et operuit ilium. 
J. 4.9: Humeta bitst bu aet me drincan = Quomodo tu Judaeus quum sis, 
bibere a me poscis f 
4. Other Verbs, with each of which the construction is doubtful, as is ap¬ 
parent from the examples (complete): — 
gewyrcan, make: 
Gifts 66: Sum maeg waepenbraece wige to nytte modcraeftig smib monige 
gefremman, bonne he gewyrceS to wera hilde helm obbe hupseax obbe heabu- 
byrnan, scirne mece obbe scyldes rond, faeste gefegan wib flyge gares (or ac¬ 
cusative and infinitive?). 
