NOTES. 
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3. An Inflected Infinitive Alternates with a Prepositional Phrase in /Elf . Horn. II. 322 m : 
Wa tSan t5e strang bits to swi&licum drencum and to gemencgenne ba micclan druncennysse. 
4. Confusion of Adjective with Adverb. ■— Occasionally confusion seems to arise between 
an adjective and an adverb, as in the following: Bede 240.21: Da wses geworden ymb syx 
hund wintra 7 feower 7 syxtig sefter Drihtnes menniscnesse eclipsis solis, bset is sunnan 
asprungennis, bset heo sciman ne hsefde: 7 wses eatolice on to seonne = 191.29: facta erat eclipsis 
solis; — Wcerf. 49.8: bohte . . . bset seo ylce stow mihte beon gecoplice wyrta on to settanne 
- 184 A: cogitaret, quod saltern ad condimenta olerum nutrienda locus idem aptus potuisset 
existere; — Alex. 66 : by lses bset eow seo saegen monigfealdlicor bi bon tSuhte to writanne. 
5. The Infinitive with Adverbs. — In the following passages, all quoted in the preceding 
note, we have an inflected infinitive modifying an adverb, not an adjective: Bede 240.21: 
eatolice; Wcerf. 49.8: gecoplice; Alex. 66 : monigfealdlicor. Dr. Shearin , 1 l. c., p. 26, would 
put here the following, the only examples given by him of the infinitive with adverbs: “ In 
two instances the infinitive depends upon an adverb in the main clause and the purpose idea 
fades into one of mere reference, e. g. 2E. H. ii. 78.14 [= my Mlf. Horn. II. 78.14]: ge habbab 
hwonlice to swincenne = ‘little time to labor ; 7 Int. Sig. 285 [= my Mlf. Int. 285]: Hwset 
is, bset God gelogode Cherubim and fyren swurd and awendedlic to gehealdenne (= Quid est: 
Cherubin vel flammeum gladium atque versatilem ad custodiendum viam ligni vitse posuit).” 
To me, however, to swincenne seems rather the object of habba& (see p. 43 above, in Chap¬ 
ter II); and to gehealdenne , the adverbial (final) modifier of gelogode. Dr. Kuhn, l. c., p. 36, 
considers that the infinitive depends on an adverb in the following passages in Mlf. L. S.: — 
126.150: gearcodon heora mod to bam martyrdome caflice to campienne for cristes geleafan; 
182.226: Eala bu selmihtiga god, ana to gebiddenne, ondrsedendlic scyppend, so&lic to wur- 
tSigenne; 274.186: Hi wurdon ba beswungene and swyblice getintregode, swa swa ba wses ge- 
wunelic to witnigenne forligr. But to me it seems that, in the first example, the adverb 
modifies the infinitive, which latter is final; that, in the other two examples, we have, not 
adverbs, but adjectives; that, in the second example, the infinitive modifies the adjective; 
and that, in the third example, the infinitive is the subject of the verbal phrase made up of 
the copula plus the adjective. 
