Ge-hrifnian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-hrifnian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-hrifnian
- p. ode To be gorged (? cf. hrif) :-- Alexandres æfterfol-geras xiiii geár þisne middangeard tōtugon and tōtǣron þǣm gelīcost þonne seó leó bringd his hungregum hwelpum hwæt tō ētanne : hié donne gecȳdad on dǣm ǣte hwelc heora mǣst mæg gehrifnian. Swā dyde Ptholomeus þā hē tōgædere gesweóp ealle Ægyptum and Arabia principes ejus xiiii annis orbem dilaniaverunt, et veluti opimam praedam a leone frostratam avidi discerpsere catuli. Itaque Ptolemaeo Aegyptus Arabiae-que pars sorte provenit, Ors. 3, II ; S. 142, 26. ge-hrifnian