THE PREDICATIVE INFINITIVE WITH ACCUSATIVE SUBJECT, 205 
The Latin correspondents are: — for bebeodan: a noun in the accusative, 2;— for bid- 
dan: an accusative and active infinitive, 1; — for hatan: an accusative and infinitive (active, 
30; passive, 5); a dative and infinitive, 3; an active infinitive as retained object, 3; a 
co-ordinated finite verb, active, 15; a subordinated finite verb, active, 4; an appositive par¬ 
ticiple (active present, in the nominative, 3; passive in the accusative, 1); an absolute parti¬ 
ciple, passive, 1; a gerund in the ablative, 1; ad + a gerund, 1; a noun in the accusative, 1; 
two nouns, 1; an adverb, 1; no Latin, 16. 
2. Verbs of Causing and of Permitting. 1 
In verbs of causing and of permitting ( alcetan , biegan [began], don, forlcetan, 
gedon, ge&afian, ge&olian, geunnan, Icetan, and niedan), all, except Icetan and its 
compound, forlcetan, occur with a predicative infinitive so seldom as to make 
trustworthy conclusions concerning any of the words except Icetan and forlcetan 
difficult, if not impossible. 
The probability seems to be, however, that alcetan, occurring only twice, 
in the poems, is in no wise due to Latin influence. 
Began [biegan] is followed by the accusative and infinitive only once ( Ps . 
143.14), and there the infinitive corresponds to a Latin appositive participle. 
See the statements concerning don and niedan. 
The only instance in Early West Saxon ( Bede 98.27 b ) of don followed by the 
accusative and infinitive is in translation of the same idiom in Latin, as is also 
true of the one example in the Laws; the only example in poetry is from the 
metrical Psalms; while the remaining examples are from Late West Saxon 
(iElfric and Wulfstan). Latin influence is, therefore, highly probable in the 
case of don. 
Gedon occurs only twice (once each in Bl. Horn, and in JZlf. L. S.), and, 
like don, is doubtless ultimately due to Latin influence. 
Gedafian, occurring only four times (Bl. Horn., 1 doubtful example; iElfric, 
3), is possibly indirectly due to Latin influence. 
Ge&olian is clearly due to Latin influence in the only example found (in the 
Laws), the Latin occurring by the side of the Anglo-Saxon. 
Geunnan occurs only once (jElf. JEthelw.), and is followed by what may 
indifferently be considered an accusative with predicative infinitive or a dative 
with objective infinitive. In either case, Latin influence is probable, the Latin 
having concedes followed by a dative and objective infinitive. 
In the one example found of niedan ( Mk . 6.45), the Anglo-Saxon accusative 
and infinitive translate the same idiom of the Latin. 
As to both Icetan and its compound, forlcetan, Latin influence is out of the 
question; for, as our examples given above (pp. 110 ff.) show, the accusative- 
and-infinitive construction with each occurs frequently in the poetry, and in 
the prose translations often occurs when the accusative with infinitive is not 
found in the Latin original. 
The correspondents in Latin are: — for forlcetan: an accusative and infinitive (active, 2; 
passive, 1); an active infinitive as retained object, 1; a co-ordinated finite verb, active, 2; 
a predicative participle, passive, accusative, 1; no Latin, 1; — for Icetan: an accusative and 
active infinitive, 38; a dative and active infinitive, 1; a complementary infinitive, active, to 
an auxiliary verb, 1; an active infinitive as retained object, 1; a subjective infinitive, active, 
1; an active infinitive as predicate nominative, 1; a co-ordinated finite verb (active, 23; 
i Cf. Chapter VIII, p. 108. 
