516 
toris, Alia et Sparsa consulibus, peractis cursibus, consummatur. Post 
quem undecimus a consulatu Paterni et Torquati ad nostra usque tem- 
pora decurrens, extremo anno Hiberniensium moriente Manicho inter 
ceeteros sapientes, peragitur. Et duodecimus nunc tertium annum 
agens, ad futurorum scientiam se prestans, a nobis qualem finem sit 
habiturus ignoratur.’’ 
The tenth cycle ended in the ninety-second year after the Crucifixion, 
that is A. D. 120, if, as usual, we antedate this occurrence by four years. 
Adding to this 532, we get the year 652 as the close of the eleventh 
eycle, in which the writer says Manicheus the Wise died in Ireland. 
Now, this Manichzeus is none other than theIrish Mainchine,* concerning 
whom Tighernach, the annalist, writes at 652, ‘“‘ Dormitacio Manchene 
Ab Menedrochaidh ;” or, as the Annals of Ulster, at the preceding year, 
‘‘Obitus Maenchein abbatis Menedrochit.”” The place of which Mani- 
cheeus was abbot is now known as Mondrehid, a townland, having an 
ancient cemetery and remains of a church, in the parish of Offerlane, in 
the Queen’s County.t 
This remarkable coincidence, which was observed by Archbishop 
Ussher, t affords a wonderfully strong external testimony to the accuracy 
of our domestic annals. 
The author of the treatise adds, that the year in which he wrote was 
the third of the twelfth great cycle, that is, 655.§ In his notice of the 
tenth cycle, he places its close in the consulships of Alia and Sparsa, 
which names, as the Benedictine editors observe in the margin, should 
be Aviola and Pansa. This contraction of Aviola into Alia, and the 
prefixing of S to Pansa, is not foreign to the genius of Irish pronuncia- 
tion. Manius Acilius Aviola and Caius Cornelius Pansa are set down 
as consuls in the Fasti Consulares of Noris|| at A. U. C. 875, or A. D. 
122, which year is adopted by Muratori,§/ and from him transferred to 
the tables in L’Art de Verifier les Dates.** There is a difficulty, how- 
ever, in reconciling what our writer says of the opening of the eleventh 
cycle, namely, ‘in the consulship of Paternus and Torquatus.” Now, in 
* We have two names very like each other, namely, Manchan and Mainchein. The 
former is the root of Lethmanchain, now Lemanagan, in the King’s County ; the latter is 
best known through Mainchin mae Sedna, now St. Munchin of Limerick. Colgan ob- 
serves that Manchan, Manchen, and Manchin, arediminutives of Manach. Acta Sanctor, 
p- 332 6, n. 1. 
+ Ordnance Survey, sheet 16, S. W. corner. 
t Brit. Eecl. Antiquitates, cap. 17 (Works, vol. vi., pp. 542, 548, 606). He thus 
calculates :—532 x 11 =5852; from which if we subtract 5200, the year of the Nativity 
we get 652. f 
§ The Benedictine editors differ from Ussher’s computation : ‘‘ de cyclis disserens os- 
tendit liquido se post 660 Christianum scripsisse hos libros.” Cave says: ‘‘ Scripsit anno 
657.”” Hist. Liter. i. p. 294. Oudin is very vague: ‘‘ Incertus author post annum 530, 
an etiam 700 vivisse perhibetur.”—-Comment. de Script. i. col. 944. 
|| Appended to his Annus et Epocha Syromacedonum, p. xvii. 
{ Annali d’ Italia, tom. i., p. 282. 
** Vol. i, p. 358. 
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