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THE INFINITIVE WITH NOUNS 
and 34, declares that the inflected infinitive is used parallel with the simple infinitive as the 
complement of a noun in L. 1.72, 79, but the infinitives are, in my judgment, final, and modify 
the verb. In the following passages we have a series of inflected infinitives: Bede 62.8 a,b , 
9; 86.13 3,b ; 206.10 a ’ b ; 206.11, 12; 400. 8 a ’ b ; 402.30 a - b ; 436.7, 8 ; — Solil. 39.15, 16; — 
Wcerf. 211.20 3 ’ b ; — Mart. 86.5 a * b ; — Mlf. Horn. I. 560* 2 ; II. 360 b »• 2 * 3 - 4 ; — JKlf. L. S. 
XXIII B. 478 a * b ; XXXI. 384, 385; XXXIV. 322 a * b ; XXXIV. 328, 329; — Mk. 3.15 a ’ b ; — 
Wulf. 52.3 a> b ; 202.l a> b ; — Lcece. 52.30, 31; 54.36 b , 37; — Chad 71, 72. 
2. The Inflected Infinitive Used as a Latin Gerundive. — In sentences like the following, 
the Anglo-Saxon inflected infinitive closely approximates a Latin gerundive: Bede 82.19: seo 
gemengnes (Saes flaesces seo for intingan bearna (sic!) to cennenne = 58.22: carnis commixtio 
creandorum liberorum sit gratia. Clearly the genitive bearna is due to the too close following 
of the Latin idiom, for I do not find in Bosworth-Toller’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary any example 
of cennan’s governing a genitive. This same influence of the Latin gerundive is seen in this 
passage: Wcerf. 114.1: tSset <5aer naes eallunga nan wen <5aes geloman ofer tSaet to secanne 
= B. 144 C 2 : ut spes requirendi ferramenti nulla jam esset. 
