Mesorat%20hashas for Horayot 3:4

וְאֵיזֶהוּ הַמָּשִׁיחַ, הַמָּשׁוּחַ בְּשֶׁמֶן הַמִּשְׁחָה, לֹא הַמְרֻבֶּה בִבְגָדִים. אֵין בֵּין כֹּהֵן הַמָּשׁוּחַ בְּשֶׁמֶן הַמִּשְׁחָה לִמְרֻבֶּה בְגָדִים אֶלָּא פַר הַבָּא עַל כָּל הַמִּצְוֹת. וְאֵין בֵּין כֹּהֵן מְשַׁמֵּשׁ לְכֹהֵן שֶׁעָבַר, אֶלָּא פַר יוֹם הַכִּפּוּרִים וַעֲשִׂירִית הָאֵיפָה. זֶה וָזֶה שָׁוִין בַּעֲבוֹדַת יוֹם הַכִּפּוּרִים, וּמְצֻוִּין עַל הַבְּתוּלָה, וַאֲסוּרִין עַל הָאַלְמָנָה, וְאֵינָן מִטַּמְּאִין בִּקְרוֹבֵיהֶן, וְלֹא פוֹרְעִין, וְלֹא פוֹרְמִין, וּמַחֲזִירִין אֶת הָרוֹצֵחַ:

Who is "the anointed one"? He who is anointed with the anointing oil, not him of the many garments. [After the flask of anointing oil was secreted, the high-priest would enter the high-priesthood by donning eight garments, viz. (Leviticus 21:10): "…and who has been invested to wear the garments."] There is no difference between the anointed (high-) priest and the many-garmented priest but the bullock that is offered for all of the mitzvoth, [the many-garmented priest not offering a bullock for his unwitting sins, it being written (in that regard) "the anointed priest." And there is no difference between the officiating (high-priest) and the deposed (high-priest) but the Yom Kippur bullock and the tenth of the ephah, (which are offered only by the officiating high-priest). And both are equal in the Yom Kippur service. [The service of the day is kasher only with the high-priest alone, and the officiating high-priest and the deposed high-priest are equal in that regard.] And they are both commanded (to wed only) a virgin, and they are forbidden (to wed) a widow, and they are not permitted to make themselves tamei for their (deceased) kin, and they are not permitted to let their hair grow long or to rend their clothing, [it being written in respect to the high-priest (Ibid.): "His hair he shall not grow long and his clothing he shall not rend."], and they return the (unwitting) slayer. [If one of them dies, the slayer returns from his city of refuge, as it is written (Numbers 35:25): "until the death of the high-priest."]

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