[123] _i.e._, uncertain what will come of them.

250. Tri urgarta bid: a chaithem cen altugud, a chaithem d'eis oiged, a chaithem rena thrath coir.

[Note 250: haurgartho N^1 hurgairt HM hurghairrthe H^2 d'aithli aidead H coir om. NH^2 iarna coir M]

251. Cetheora aipgitre gaise: ainmne, sonmathe, sobraid[e], sothnges; ar is gaeth cach ainmnetach [et] sai cach somnath, fairsing cach sobraid, sochoisc cach sothengtha.

[Note 251: somna sobraicch H^2 sobes N soingthes H^2 somnoigh H^2 farsigh [_leg._ farsing] .i. sgaoiltech H^2]

252. Cetheora aipgitre baise: baithe, condailbe, imresan, doingthe.

253. Teora sirechta flatha: cuirmthech cen aisneis, buiden cen erdonail, dirim cen chona.

[Note 253: airdanail N erdanail N^1]

254. Tri indchoisc ordain do duine: .i. sodelb, saire, sulbaire.

[Note 254: a tri ina coisceadh ordan M suirbire H]

255. Tri guala dona fess fudomain: guala flatha, guala ecalse, guala nemid filed.

[Note 255: dana H fodhomain M]

256. Tri feich nach dlegar faill: feich thire, duilgine achaid, argius aiste.

[Note 256: nat eple faill M aichid M argui_us_ H]

250. Three prohibitions of food: to eat it without giving thanks, to eat it before its proper time, to eat it after a guest.

251. Four elements[124] of wisdom: patience, docility, sobriety, well-spokenness; for every patient person is wise, and every docile person is a sage, every sober person is generous, every well-spoken person is tractable.

252. Four elements[124] of folly: silliness, bias, wrangling, foulmouthedness.

[124] Literally, 'alphabets.'

253. Three tabus of a chief: an ale-house without story-telling, a troop without a herald, a great company without wolfhounds.[125]

[125] This triad has been wrongly read (fais_cre_ instead of fais_n_e_is_) and rendered by O'Grady in his Catalogue of Ir. mss. in the British Museum, p. 91.

254. Three indications of dignity in a person: a fine figure, a free bearing, eloquence.

255. Three coffers whose depth is not known: the coffer of a chieftain, of the Church,[126] of a privileged poet.

[126] "Die Kirche hat einen guten Magen," Goethe, Faust.

256. Three debts which must not be neglected:[127] debts of land, payment of a field, instruction (?) of poetry.

[127] 'Which do not die by neglect,' M.

GLOSSES AND NOTES

1. Gloss in H. 1. 15: oir gurab innte do bhi suidhe priomhaigh eirenn.

2. .i. ordaighecht no ord uaisle no airechas .i. arduaislighecht tre adhluicedh na riogh inte [et] na naoimh.

4. .i. serc eirenn o annsacht chaich uirre tre Muire na nGaodhal .i.

Brighid.

5. .i. naomthacht tre naomaibh, no foghluim sruth .i. saoi-raith.

7. .i. feronn buird riogh eirenn.

11. .i. tre caich innte no tre n-iomad taisi innte.

13. .i. eircille ar gradhuibh dar ndoigh fa tuarasdul giolla foic[h]le, no tuarastail.

14. .i. liodain do gnath.

15. .i. ealadhna mor ann [et] senchaoi [.f]esa na sen.

16. .i. a n-iomat breithemhuin, no cuirt, no sgol feinechuis ann.

17. .i. o iomad scol innte.

18. .i. aoibnes no conach no er tir fo sliocht eireann.

19. .i. ag guidhe ar gach duine.

20. .i. tre leigen Temhrach. This refers to the curse p.r.o.nounced by Ruadan, the founder of Lorrha, against King Diarmait and Tara.

22. .i. cairedh inte. St. Feichin, the founder of Fore, was famous for the austerity of his devotion. 'He used to set his wretched rib against the hard cell without raiment,' says Cuimmine in his poem on the Saints of Ireland (_Zeitschr._, I., p. 63).

24. .i. diamharracht no aon ar anacht no gloine.

25. .i. luathghaire a mBreifne.

26. .i. gradh De.

28. .i. ait comhnuidhe.

30. .i. cill as mesa do cheallaibh no beim aithesach no ceall dair.

31. .i. genmnacht.