Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 



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I' uoTTipiu^^ iNOiu^- niupt:^ "c^ew ro- 



' Ad Temoriam hodie potentiam prsepoUentem in- 



voco Trinitatis. 



CReuim« URGOoauaio^ poisiN" 



Credo in Trinitatem sub tii 



oeNOauaD" in" DULemaiN'^ dqil." 



Unitate T«w numinis elementorum. 



' Q, in, or at : sic hodie. 



« COTTTRIU^: apparently an obsolete form of Ceaiiipu 1 j, dat. of Ceariiuip. 



' lNt)HJ, to-day : now generally written iniu or aniu in Irish, but andiu in the Erse. 



* NIURU, strength, force, power : so written in many ancient MSS., but now always neapr. 

 » CRBN, strong, mighty : so written in all the ancient MSS., but in the modern ones qiean. 



^ CO^CtlRm : used as a noun in the modern MSS. and in the Annals of the Four Masters, 

 at the year 1577, in which sense it is taken by O'Clery, who, in his dictionary of obsolete Irish 

 words, explains it by acac no juibe 6ian, i. e. a supplication or earnest entreaty : but here it is 

 certainly employed as a verb, and means, I invoke, beseech, implore. 



' CRIHOIU, the Trinity : now always written Upionoio. In the ancient MSS. c is frequently 

 used for the d of the moderns. The same change is observable in the Welsh, Spanish, and Italian. 



* CT?6Cim, I believe : now cpeioim. 



" CU60t)QUQlt). This word is now obsolete, but its meaning is evidently triplicity, or 

 tripartite division. The termination araio is no longer in use. 



"> POISIN, under the, is compounded of the preposition poi under, and the article an or in, 

 the, the p being inserted to avoid a hiatus, as in cpep, leip, ip, annp. 



" OeNtDQCQt), unity : now written aonoacc. In the ancient MSS. ae and oe are almost . 

 invariably used for the ao of the moderns. 



" IH, the : now written an, but in the ancient MSS. almost invariably in. 



" t)Uf,6mQlN, gen. form of ouileih, the Godhead, the Creator of the Elements: a word evi- 

 dently of pagan origin ; it is derived from Dul, element. At this day the phrase pij; na n-oul is 

 universal in Ireland, and is understood to mean God, i. e. the King of the Elements. 



" t)Q16 : now ouil, of the elements — See quotation in O'Reilly's Dictionary in voce duI. In 

 an old Litany preserved in the Leahhar Breac, fol. 121, b, the Creator is thus addressed : " Q Dhe 

 uli chomacraij, a be na ploj, a 6e uapail, a rijepna an Domain, a t)hlJ16imh na Nt)U6, — 

 6pchip Dinn." And again, in the same Litany : " 6epchep ap n-oucpacc qi^ihuqxi 1 piaonuipe in 

 Duileriian, ap nic piu P"" F^'" op n-6pcechc," let our devotedness be carried through thee in 

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