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THE INFINITIVE WITH ADJECTIVES. 
sElf. Horn. I. 190 b : Godes Sunu, se t5e wees toweard to alysenne ealne mid- 
dangeard fram deofles anwealde. 
Chad. 188: Sonne he bib toweard to demenne cwice / deade. 
Differentiation of the Two Infinitives. 
Although twice in the poetry an uninflected infinitive is found with an 
adjective, we may be reasonably sure that, in the poetry as in the prose, the 
infinitive with adjectives normally was inflected: of the 26 examples of the 
infinitive in Anglo-Saxon poetry, only two are uninflected; of the 221 examples 
in the prose, only four are uninflected. The lack of inflection in both poetry 
and prose appears to be due chiefly to the remoteness of the infinitive from the 
adjective that it modifies, since in each 1 of the examples the infinitive is ap¬ 
preciably separated from its adjective. As, however, in three of the examples 
(AElf. Horn. I. 534 b3 , II. 130* 2 ; AElf. L. S. 138.353 b ) the uninflected infinitive 
is the second of a series of two infinitives the first of which is inflected, some may 
prefer to consider that the force of to is carried over to the second infinitive, 
or, to state the matter another way, that the presence of to with the first infini¬ 
tive accounts for its absence with the second infinitive. What seems to me 
to militate against this latter view and to favor the former, is the fact that in 
Bede 56.21, where we have only a single infinitive and that separated from its 
adjective by a number of words, the infinitive is uninflected; and the further 
fact that in sixteen series we have only the inflected infinitive, while in only 
three series have we an uninflected infinitive following an inflected. More¬ 
over, we have seen that in some other uses remoteness from a word normally 
requiring an inflected infinitive, tends to cause the infinitive to lose its inflection. 
B. THE PASSIVE INFINITIVE. 
Of an adjective modified by an infinitive that is passive in form I have 
found only one example, in /Elf. Horn. II. 316 b 2 : we Se nseron wurtfe heon his 
wealas gecigde. 
For the infinitive with adjectives (and adverbs) in the other Germanic 
languages, see Chapter XVI, section xi. 
NOTES. 
1. The Infinitive in a Series with Adjectives. — In the following passages, of which only 
the last is cited by Dr. Farrar, 2 we have a series of infinitives with adjectives in which the 
first infinitive is inflected, but the succeeding is not: /Elf. Horn. I. 534 b 2 * 3 , quoted on p. 150; 
II. ISO 41 * 2 , quoted on p. 151; /Elf. L. S. 138.353 a,b , quoted on p. 151. In the following 
passages we have a series of infinitives in which each infinitive is inflected: Bede 410.4 b , 5 b ; 
450.3 a ’ b ; — Boeth. 50.24 a ’ b , 81.3 a - b ; — Greg. 91.15 a ’ b ; 173.8 a * b ; 239.10, 11; 385.10, 11; 
459.9**’ b ; — Oros. 80.11, 12 a ’ b ; 286.8 a,b ; — Wcerf. 27.8, 9 ; — Bl. Horn. 81.35, 36; 111.26 a ’ b ; 
— /Elf. Horn. II. 170 b 1>2 ; — /Elf. L. S. XXV. 113 a * b ; — Lcece. 87.15, 16. 
2. An Infinitive with an Adjective That Is to Be Supplied. —■ We have an inflected infini¬ 
tive dependent upon an adjective that is to be supplied from the context in the following: 
Oros. 120.9: Sonne sceoldon ge swa lustlice eowre agnu brocu araefnan, Seh hie laessan sien, 
swa ge heora sint to gehieranne [= (as Dr. Wtilfing, 2 1. c., II, p. 199, states) swa ge lustlice sint 
heora to gehieranne ]. 
1 Except in Gu. 1051, in which only one word intervenes: see pp. 149 and 150. 
2 L. c., pp. 25 and 34. 
