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jSTettasagru, Quenatauci,* Quenvendani, Begin, Rialobrani, Rini, 

 Safaqquci, Sagrani (Sagranui),'" Senacus, Senilus, Senomagli, Talori, 

 Tegernacus, Trenacatus, Trenegussi, Treni, Turpilli, Yendoni, Yen- 

 dubari, Yinneraagli, Ulcagnus.* Of these, those marked (*) are found 

 south of the Bristol Channel ; and elcagni fili seveei from the south, 

 compared with seveeint fili seveei, and uecagjstes fits senoitagli 

 from the north, with sagbanei — sagbani, haccodecceti — haccedec- 

 •ceti, beocagast — beocagki, indicate the presence of the same families 

 on both sides of it. Some of these names have their correspondents 

 in Welsh personal nomenclature, it is true ; but the forms in which 

 they are here presented to us are assuredly more like those on the 

 Irish monuments, than those on monuments distinctly Welsh ; and 

 there is at least one element of which the Irish character cannot be 

 doubted, Sen (Welsh, Hen). The names, generally, belong to the 

 primitive heathen Celtic type ; but there are two, kxoewite (appa- 

 rently identical with eu^p^uroe, "adoration"), and hvjmeLe'oonA-p, 

 (undoubtedly a compound of humeLe-f = later Irish tim&L, Cornish 

 huvel, Welsh uffal, and •oon&--p, "low and poor"), which savour of 

 the Christian names of the first centuries. Some of the other names 

 •are certainly Latin ; but of these some may be translations of Celtic 

 names. Thus nobili may represent feci, which twice occurs, and 



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vejstedotis ctve, "citizen of Gwynedd," prepares us to expect 

 other provincial or local designations, and such, I believe is seime- 

 tiaco, "native of Seimeti," though I do not recognise the place. 

 There was a local name, something like it, in Ulster, Seimne. 

 ■OBDOES has been referred to this class, and identified with Ordovic-is 

 or -a, (the plural was Ordovic-es or -se) ; but I dare not accept this 

 identification. I think it safer to regard it as a personal name, and 

 understand posuit rather than fuit. It seems to be a Celtic corre- 

 spondent of the Latin arduus, later Irish o\\x> and Apt), "tall" or 

 " brave." 



In two instances, talobi adve^ti (sc. adventitii) and pebegeijST 

 feci, we have indications that the persons who are commemorated 

 were " strangers," just as at Mount Music, Mm&c/ynni m&cp 

 ^ittic&p, and Kilcoleman, M\m colotorrnyn xyiLitiuep. 



Three monuments commemorate the civil rank of the deceased or 

 of his father, or some relative — tofisaci, teibejSti, magisteati ; but 

 these are not amongst those I claim as probably Irish. I do not 

 know whether anything equivalent has appeared on the Irish monu- 

 ments, unless bftoifnon/yp, apparently equivalent to the Welsh 

 brenhin, be of this class. 



Three monuments — two in Wales and one in Scotland — present 

 the ecclesiastical titles presbyter and sacerdos. These are of the 

 Roman type; but they have their analogies at Cahirnagal, co^icc&cc 

 in&<|i f A^peccop, and Brandon, <jpirmcip pon'Min m&<\ como- 

 5-Mvn (both which I judge to be comparatively late, on account of tin; 



