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  • Modicum et non videbitis me, et reliqua . . .

    Wundrodon hí swíðe þǽre sægene,
      Hml. A. 73, 19.

  • Holofernes æfter þissere segene gebealh hine

    cum cessasset loqui Achior verba haec indignatus est Holofernes,

      107, 145.

  • Hé cwæð þæt hé wolde þám wífe gemyltsian, ac hé ne mihte ꝥ gafol álecgan . . . 'Gif þú woldest myltsian and ne mihtest, þǽr is sum beládung on þǽre sægne (segene,

    v. l.

    ),'
      Hml. S. 3, 185.
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  • Seó fúle cwæð ꝥ heó eóde tó hyre licgendre on lǽces híwe . . . 'ac ic hrýmde . . . oþ þæt án mínra wímmanna mé wið hine áhredde.' Gelýfde Philippus þǽre fácenfullan segene,

      Hml. S. 2, 190.

  • Hé mé cýþde mid his ágenre sægne (segene, v. l.) ꝥ . . .

    relatione sua me docent, quod . . . ,

      Gr. D. 220, 3.

  • Hé him eall sǽde his síð be ændebyrdnysse, and ꝥ folc æfter his segene feóllon tó eorðan,

      Hml. A. 107, 160.

  • Sum engel him sǽde hwæt þá óþre bisceopas on heora sinoþe sprǽcon, and se hálga wiston hwæt hí þǽr rǽddon þurh þæs engles segene,

      Hml. S. 31, 687.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sægen.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/57491.

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