THE PREDICATIVE INFINITIVE WITH ACCUSATIVE SUBJECT. 207 
Eowan, occurring once, in Woerf., is due to the Latin original. 
The predicative infinitive with findan is not due to Latin influence, for in 
the translations it corresponds to another idiom of the original (a predicative 
past participle, accusative, once), and is more frequent in poetry (7 examples, 
5 in Beowulf) than in prose (3 examples). 
Geacsian with accusative and infinitive is found twice each in the Blickling 
Homilies and in Wulfstan. Whether or not the idiom is due to Latin influence, 
cannot be decided. 
In the single example of gecySan, in Wcerf., the accusative and infinitive 
translate the same idiom of the Latin original. 
The idiom with gefrignan is undoubtedly native, occurring only in poetry, 
there forty-one times, and being widely distributed. 
With gehatan the idiom is probably due to Latin influence, two examples 
occurring in direct translation of the Latin, and a third example, though itself 
corresponding to a Latin ablative absolute, is perhaps suggested by a neigh¬ 
boring accusative and infinitive of the Latin. 
As to gehyhtan , occurring only once, in /Elf. L. S., there is no need of suppos¬ 
ing direct Latin influence, as by iElfric’s time the idiom had become common. 
With geliefan , occurring only once, in Wcerf., the accusative and infinitive 
correspond to the same idiom in the Latin. 
With gemetan and gemittan the idiom is doubtless native: both are found 
in poetry, the latter in poetry only; and the former has, in the Anglo-Saxon 
translations, various Latin correspondents (an accusative and infinitive (active, 
3; passive, 1); a predicative present participle, accusative, 6; a predicative 
adjective, accusative, 1; an appositive participle, passive, accusative, 1). 
With gemunan the idiom is doubtless due to Latin 1 influence: the verb 
is not found with this construction in the poetry; and in Bede and in Wserferth 
the accusative and infinitive correspond to the same idiom in Latin. 
With getriewan, the idiom occurs only once, in Bede , and in direct transla¬ 
tion of the Latin. 
With gewitan, found only once, in Andreas, the construction is doubtless 
native, as with the simplex, witan, which see below. 
As to Iceran, the examples (only four in all, in prose, given in Chapter VIII, 
p. 116) are too few to be decisive, but Latin influence is clear in two of the ex¬ 
amples ( Bede 2 and Gospels), in each of which we have the accusative and infini¬ 
tive in the original. The other two examples occur in A. S. Horn. & L. S. II. 
With onfindan, found only once (in Beow.), the idiom is doubtless of native 
origin, as with the simplex, findan, which see. 
With ongietan, found once in poetry {Beow.) and 6 times in prose, the idiom 
is probably due to Latin influence, translating, as it does, a Latin accusative 
and infinitive in each of the examples in Bede and in Wacrferth. 3 
As to tali{g)an, found twice with this construction, in Alexander, I dare 
not venture an opinion. 
With tellan, the sole example of the idiom, in Bede, is in direct translation 
of the Latin. 
With wenan, the idiom is doubtless due to Latin influence, the single ex- 
i Cf. Gorrell, l. c., pp. 369, 475. 2 Cf. Gorrell, l. c., p. 375. 
3 Except that once in the latter (Wcerf. 285.1) it translates a noun in the accusative modified by a sub¬ 
stantivized present participle in the genitive. 
