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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



fot flaithi'jMa na nAssarda 7 se' righ 

 tricad ro bhadar frisin re sin ut dixit 

 poeta. 



Da XX." da .c. gan chair- 



mill ni breg do hMadnaib 

 fad a flaithis bha brigh bhalc" 

 re re na n-ocht righ trichad 

 Madh o. c. blifl<fa[i]n Nin nair- 



ro ghabhsat riagail sograid- 

 mili gidh mo meadh' namma- 

 da .c. 7 xl. 



lur flaithi'iM Assarrdha ig Cichloiscibh 

 ro bai .i. c. bl. doibh 7 ui. righonda dibh 

 risin re sin Marsebia 7 Lapitu Ensiopa 

 liorithia Antiobla Pcntisilia dno. Innis- 

 tcar chcana isin stair Dariat Pcntisilia 

 do Mhtith illcith na Troianda ig catugb- 

 adh fria Oregaibh go ndorcair la Pirr 

 mc. Aichir Masse Tutoinc-is ro bhi in 

 n-aimsir toghlu Troi is a comoimsir 

 frisna hAssarrduibh ro bhai. Pcntisilia 

 ag na Cichloiscthibh ria no' ro thoghladh 

 in Trai. Flait^iiM Meadh ba he in 

 t-ardTkithius a ndiaidh na nAsradha .i. 

 ocht righa ro bhadar dibh nae' mbliadhna 

 .1. 7 CO. fad a flaithiusa ut dicitur. 



Kac mbliWna .1. da. cct' 



re riagladh' ni himirbreg 

 fod flatha Meadh brigh co mblaidh' 

 re re ocht righ do righaibh. 



Ifemed's race. 1240 [years -was] the 

 duration of the empire of the Assyrians, 

 and 36 [or 38j kings there -were during 

 that time, ut dixit poeta : 



Two score, two hundred, without fault, 

 a thousand, it is no lie, of years 

 the length of their sovereignty that 



was a solid strength 



in the time of the thirty-eight kings. 



If it be [reckoned] from the first year of 



noble Ninue 



that they held the rule of high degree, 



a thousand only, though it be the 



greatest number(?), 

 two hundred and forty. 



After the empire of the Assyrians, 

 the Amazons had it i.e. 100 years for 

 them and six queens of them during that 

 time, Marsebia and Lapitha, Ensiopa, 

 liorithia, Antiobla, Penthesilea. It is 

 told, however, in the history of Dares 

 that Penthesilea was on the side of the 

 Trojans warring against the Greeks, till 

 she was slain by Pyrrhus son of Achilles. 

 If it was Tautamus that lived in the 

 time of the Sack of Troy, he was con- 

 temporary with the Assyrians. Pen- 

 thesilea [reigned] among the Amazons 

 before Troy was sacked. The sovereignty 

 of the Medes was the supreme sove- 

 reignty after the Assyrians,' i.e. eight 

 kings there were of them. 2.59 [?] 

 years was the duration of their realm, ut 

 dicitur: 



Two hundred and fifty-nine years, 

 according to rules, it is no falsehood, 

 the length of the reign of the Medes, 



a power with fame, 

 during the time of eight kings. 



' " He ocht " written over " «e." ' Read rogriid. ' Sead med, mft. 



• Rtad wna't ' " n« .u." written over " nae." • Read re (= fri) riaglaP 



' Heuung that the Amazon Idngdom is not reckoned as a " world-kingdom." 



