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here-toga

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Wright's OE grammar
§225; §239;
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the acting leader of an army
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  • Scotta sumdǽl gewát on Brittene, and þes landes sumdǽl geeódon, and wes heora heratoga Reóda geháten,

    • Chr. pref.
    • ;
    • P. 5, l
    • .
  • Ðonne se heretoga wácað, þonne bið eall se here gehindred,

    • 1003
    • ;
    • P. 135, 15
    • :
    • Ll. Lbmn. 475, 18
    • (see 2nd passage under here; I. 2 c ¶ l a).
  • Swá hwylcne heora swá him se tán ætýwde, þonne gecuron hí þone him tó heretogan and tó ládþeówe

    (hunc tempore belli ducem omnes sequuntur),

    • Bd. 5, 10
    • ;
    • Sch. 600, 19
    • .
  • Þá onstealdon þá heretogan ǽrest þone fleám,

    • Chr. 993
    • ;
    • P. 127, 29
    • .
as an official term
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  • Eoldorman

    princeps,

    heore-toga oððe láteów

    dux

    ealdorman oððe geréfa

    comes,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 72, 60
    • .
  • Gercyning oððe heretoga

    consul,

    • ii. 20, 4
    • .
used of an English official
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  • Ic Óswald mid geðafunge and leáfe Eádgáres Angul-cyningces and Ælfheres Mercna heretogan (cf. Ælfhere ducis Merciorum

    • 33
    • ,)
    • C.D. iii. 5, 5
    • :
    • 49, 29
    • :
    • 159, 20
    • .
  • Cf. Ælfere ealdorman.

    • Chr. 975
    • ;
    • P. 121, 24
    • .
applied to a civilian
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  • Hú ꝥ wæs weallende spelboda and ungeþyldig heretoga

    (John the Baptist),

    • Bl. H. 165, 34.
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