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Hundred-mann

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1 hundred-mann

m. The chief of a hundred men, a centurion :-- Ðá clypode hé ðæne hundredman accersito centurione, Mk. Skt. 15, 44. Sette hig tó ealdrum and tó hundredmannum and tó fíftigesmannum and tó teóðingmannum constitui eos principes, tribunes et centuriones et quinquagenarios et decanos, Deut. 1, 15. Þúsendmen and hundrydmen and fíftiesmen and teóðingmen tribunos et quinquagenarios et decanos, Ex. 18, 21. [Cf. O. H. Ger. hunteri centurio.] hundred-mann
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ᚻᚢᚾᛞᚱᛖᛞ-ᛗᚪᚾᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Mk.
Gospel of St. Mark (OE translation)
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