Ge-þoftian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-þoftian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-þoftian
- Substitute: To make a league or alliance with, wiꝥ) a person">to league together">league, ally oneself. (1) to league together, with reflex. dat. or acc. :-- Seleucus and Demetrias hí (him, Bos. 75, 14) tógædere geþoftedan Seleucus Demetrio jungitur, Ors. 3, 11; S. 150, 29. (2) to league with (wiꝥ) a person :-- Cassander geþoftade wið Ptholomeus and wið Lisimachus and wið Seleucus, and hié ealle winnende wǽron wið Antigones Ptolomaeus et Cassander, inita cum Lysimacho et Seleuco societate, bellum instruunt, S. 148, 34. (2 a) with reflex. dat. :-- Geoweorþa geþoftade him wiþ Bohan Iugurtha societatem cum Boccho fecit, 5, 7; S. 230, 8. ge-þoftian