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ing from right to left, has been frequently adopted, and Dr. Graves has 

 observed that a Greek termination os is very often found in proper names in 

 these inscriptions. He has hence inferred that in the present case Dinos 

 would be really Din, Dim, or Dimma, the same name as that of the writer of a 

 beautiful MS. of the Gospels of the seventh century, now in the Library of 

 Trinity College, Dublin; and it is remarkable that Dr. O'Conor's fac-simile of 

 the first page of the Gospel of St. John, in the Stowe MS., bears a striking 

 resemblance to the Dimma Gospels, both as to style of illumination and hand- 

 writing, so that it may very easily be supposed to have been by the same scribe. 

 In the Ogham inscriptions, however, names with the termination os are in 

 almost every instance genitive forms. But, in the case before us, Dinos, if we 

 read the name so, seems to be nominative, being followed by the adjective 

 " peregrinus." Nevertheless, we cannot lay much stress on this argument, 

 inasmuch as the word " peregrinus" ought, perhaps, in correct Latin, to be a 

 genitive. The words are: — 



" Kogo quicunque hunc librum legeris ut memineris mei peccatoris Scrip- 

 toris, i. e. Sonid [or Dinos] peregrinus." 



Here it may be said that Sonid, or Dinos, may as well be a genitive in ap- 

 position with Scriptoris, as a nominative agreeing with peregrinus. But it is 

 more likely that the construction in the mind of the writer was " Ego Sonid," 

 or " Dinos, peregrinus rogo." 



On the whole, therefore, I am of opinion that the name written in Ogham 

 characters is Sonid, and not Dinos. 



In page 19, mention has been made of what Dr. O'Conor calls "the anti- 

 phon Peccavimus ;" and he has given in one of the plates at the end of vol. ii. 

 of his "Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores" a fac-simile of the page in which this 

 •' antiphon" commences. It is in the older or Lombardic character, and is as 

 follows: — 



"Peccavimus Domine, Peccavimus; parce peccatis nostris, et salva nos qui 

 gubernasti Noe super undas diluvi, exaudi nos qui lonam de abiso verbo 

 revocasti, libera nos qui Petro mergenti manum porrexisti, auxiliare nobis 

 Christe," &c. 



In page 20, line 1, the reader is requested to read Luxeuil instead of Lisieux. 



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