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PRIESTS. 89
confirming what I have maintained, that these two terms were
synonymous). They can hardly have been coined by the glossist
to interpret the Lat. aruspex, they must have existed in our ancient
speech. A priest who sacrificed was named pluostrari (see p. 36).
The fact that cotinc could bear the sense of tribunus shows the
close connexion between the offices of priest and judge, which
comes out still more clearly in a term peculiar to the High Germ,
dialect : ewa, ea signified not only the secular, but the divine law,
these being closely connected in the olden times, and equally
sacred ;
hence eowart, dwart law- ward, administrator of law, Z/O/UATO?,
AS. se-gleaw, ge-lareow, Goth, vitodafasteis, one learned in the law,
K. 55 a 56% b . Gl. Hrab. 974 a . N. ps. 50, 9. ewarto of the weak decl.
in O.I. 4, 2. 18. 72. gotes ewarto I. 4, 23. and as late as the 12th
century ewarte, Mar. 21. and, without the least reference to the
Jewish office, but quite synonymous with priest : der heilige
dwarte, Eeinh. 1705. der baruc und die ewarten sin, Parz. 13, 25.
Wh. 217, 23 of Saracen priests (see SuppL). The very similar
eosago, esago stood for judex, legislator, EA. 781.
The poet of the Heliand uses the expression wihes ward (templi
custos) 150, 24; to avoid the heathen as well as a foreign term, he
adopts periphrases: the gierddo man (geehrte, honoured), 3, 19.
the frodo man (frot, fruot, prudens) 3, 21. 7, 7. frodgumo (gumo,
homo) 5, 23. 6, 2. godcund gumo 6, 12, which sounds like gudja
above, but may convey the peculiar sense in which Wolfram uses
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der guote man . In the Eomance expressions prudens homo, bonus
homo (prudhomme, bonhomme) there lurks a reference to the
ancient jurisprudence. Once Ulphilas renders dpxiepevs by auhu-
mists veiha, John 18, 13, but never iepevs by veiha.
With Christianity there came in foreign words (see SuppL).
The Anglo-Saxons adopted the Lat. sacerdos in abbreviated form :
sacerd, pi. sacerdas ; and ^Elfred translates Beda s pontifex and
summus pontificum (both of them heathen), 2, 13 by biscop and
ealdorbiscop. T. and 0. use in the same sense bisgof, biscof (from
1 Parz. 457, 2. 458, 25. 460, 19. 476, 23. 487, 23. The godo gumo, Hel. 4, 16
is said of John ; ther guato man, 0. ii. 12, 21. 49 of Nicodemus ; in Ulrich s Lanzelot,
an abbot is styled der guote man, 4613. 4639. conf. 3857, 4620 ewarte, 4626
priester. But with this is connected diu guote.frouwe (v. infra), i.e. originally
bona socia, so that in the good man also there peeps out something heathenish,
heretical. In the great Apologue, the cricket is a clergyman, and is called
(Ren. 8125) preudoms and Frobert = Fruotbert (see SuppL j.