108 Mr. Peteie on the History and Antiquities of Tar a Hill. 



mission of Patrick by Pope Celestine is found. It mentions, however, somewhat 

 ambiguously, that Patrick, while with St. Germanus, desiring to proceed to 

 Ireland, the latter sent an old priest called Segitius with him as a companion 

 and witness ; and, that Patrick hearing in Ebmoria, a city of Gaul, of the death 

 of Palladius, applied to a neighbouring bishop, Amathorex, to receive the 

 episcopal dignity, after having obtained which he proceeded to Ireland. 



" Oportuno ergo tempore imperante eomitante divino auxilio coeptum ingreditur iter ad opus in 

 quod oUim prseparatus fuerat utique aBvanguelii, et missit Germanus seniorem cum illo, hoc est 

 ijegitium prespiterum ut testem cotnitcm haberet, quia nee adhuc a sancto domino Germano in 

 pontificali gradu ordinatus est. 



" Certe enim erat quod Paladius Archidiaconus Pape Caelestini Urbis Romse Episcopi, qui tunc 

 tcnebat sedem apostolicam quadragensimus quintus a Sancto Petro Apostolo, ille Palladius ordi- 

 natus et missus fuerat ad banc insolam sub brumali rigore possitam convertendam ; sed prohibuit 

 ilium [Deus convertere gentem illam — Probus], quia nemo potest accipere quicquam de terra nisi 

 datum ei fuerit de ca;lo. Nam neque hii fieri et inmites homines facile reciperunt doctrinam ejus, 

 ueque et ipse voluit transegere tempus in terra non sua, sed reversus ad eum qui missit ilium 

 revertere vero eo hinc et primo mari transito, coeptoque terrarum itenere in Britonum finibus vita 

 factus \_recte functus]. 



" Audita itaque morte Sancti Paladii in Britannis, quia discipuli Paladii, id est Augustinus et 

 Benedictus et cajteri redeuntes retulerant in Ebmoria de morte ejus ; Patricius et qui cum eo 

 erant declinaverunt iter ad quendam mirabilem honiinem summum iEpiscopum Amathorege [recte 

 Amathoregem] nomine in propinquo loco habitantem, ibique Sanctus Patricius sciens quee eventura 

 essent, ibi episcopalem gradum ab Mathorege sancto episcopo accepit, etiam Auxilius, Iserninusque, 

 et cseteri inferioris gradus eodem die quo sanctus Patricius ordinati sunt. 



" Turn acceptis benedictionibus, perfectis omnibus secundum morem, venerabilis viator 



paratam navira in nomine Sanctae Trinitatis ascendit et pervenit Brittannias. Et omissis omnibus 

 ambulandi anfractibus praster commone viae officium, nemo enira dissidia quaerit Dominum, cum 

 omni velocitate, flatuque prospero mare nostrum contendit." — Fol. 2, p. a, col. 1 & 2. 



In the amplifications of the above obscure and apparently defective passage, 

 as given in the Tripartite and other later lives, it is stated that Patrick was sent 

 by Germanus to Rome to receive the approbation of the Pope to his mission, 

 and to be consecrated for the purpose. But that Maccuthenius did not intend 

 to convey any thing like this appears clear from the headings of the chapters 

 prefixed to his work to be noticed presently, and in which it is distinctly stated, 

 that going to the apostolic see, where he wished to learn wisdom, he met with 

 St. Germanus in Gaul, and therefore went no farther. This is also shewn from 

 the interpolated version of his life by Probus, which, however, sends Patrick to 



