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IUD BI TER, (1ud bi cep), day's great being, is represented as a 
king or warrior, who by the axe of Bellona, the goddess or 
allegorical representation of experience in war, concieves the 
idea of military strategy, wisdom, and discipline, and pro- 
duces it from his head ; and Minerva is thus the allegorical 
representation of wisdom, firmness, and military discipline, 
produced by the axe of Bellona, or experience in war. 
The Greeks and Romans, substituting Vulcan’s axe for 
Bellona’s, seem to have spoiled the elegance of the allegory, 
unless they meant that armour was the perfection of warlike 
preparation. 
Sir William Betham read a paper “‘ on the Ancient — 
recently discovered in the Tumulus in the Pheenix Park. 
This paper is here inserted without any alteration or 
abridgment. 
“ When the Report of the Committee of Antiquities on 
sepulchral monuments recently discovered in the Phoenix 
Park, was read to our last meeting by Mr. Petrie, I ven- 
tured to object, at the moment, to the meaning therein as- 
signed to the name of the hill Knock-Mary, (cnoc mapawe), 
the Rill of the Mariners. It struck me that the troubleand ex- 
pense of time necessary to construct this monument were not 
likely to have been expended on the bodies of two mariners, 
and, therefore, I suggested, that the meaning was most pro- 
bably cnoc ma pug; the hill of the good king, or meap ys, the 
fortunate, lively, active, or successful prince ; either of which 
characters appeared to me to suggest amore probable origin 
ofthe name than that assigned in the Report of the Committee. 
** The Rev. Mr. Otway stated, that the name of Knock- 
maroon, another hill in the neighbourhood, had reference to 
mariners; and that certain hills in the neighbourhood of 
Sligo, which he had recently visited, bore like names, and con- 
tained similar monuments, though of much larger dimensions. 
«‘ These statements from individuals of acute judgment and 
