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Let us now try to explain the fymbolic anfwer of Inda- 

 thyrfus, by the Hiberno-Scythian dialed, taking the fynonima of 

 each objcd. 



Ean^ a bird, fignifies alfo warlike inftruments ; war, as in Ean 



gniomh^ dexterity at weapons. Heb. mn hhane, to war. 



Jmc, a moufe — a prifoner, an hoflage. 



Lo/gan^ a frog — wounded, maimed in battle. 



Crann-corr, ") n i i ,• , o. 



/to calt lots by arrows ; fate, deftiny ; and thefe 



-, . r were always five in number. 



Suam-nim, ) ' 



Crann-corr and fuam-nim {i. e. {2.cerc fuam) occur frequently in 

 Irifli, fignifying to caft a fate by arrows. Cra7in is an arrow, 

 as in crann-tabhal, a balifta, or cafter of arrows ; fuam is the Arabic 

 ^\.^m^ fuham, an arrow j whence fuham-kuza, the arrow of def- 

 tiny j in Arabic {jiy kuran, or ^ yi kurn, is alfo an arrow; 

 whence our crann. 



I THEREFORE interpret Indathyrfus's meflage thus, " If you 

 " proceed in the war, the fate of your army will be, either to 

 " be taken prifoners, or be cut in pieces in the field." 



" Exemplo patrum commotus amore legendi 

 " Ivit ad Hibernos, fopliia mirabili claros." 



Even miftaken writers, fays Mr. Collins, by putting men 

 upon enquiries, may make them fee farther than themfelves: 

 and by this means both encreafe the number of capable judges, 

 and render feme of the learned better judges than they were 



( U 2 ) before. 



