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feet accordance with the evidence of Gildas written in Britain, and the 

 Irish tradition preserved in the " Sanas Chormaic "; and this, I think, 

 enables us to understand the fact, that Talorius the son of Maqueragus 

 is called "a stranger" ; his epitaph, however, being written in Latin, 

 whilst his father's is written in Ogham. Nay, it is very possible that 

 we have actually the name of Liethan in Litogeni, in Pembrokeshire, 

 at Llandyssilio, since -an may well represent -agni or -ageni ; and 

 traces of that of his father Ercal actually occur in the patronymic 

 Ercilinci, and the feminine name Ercilia. .The later Irish favoured 

 the vowel sequence e-&, so epc&L bep&c represent earlier epcit 

 bepic ; and as we have seen cvxocexxi and cvnotami by the side of 

 ctm&cenm and 'ctm&c&trn, so litogeni may represent tiu&gern, 

 L1C&5111, Lic&n. 



NOTES ADDED IN THE PRESS. 



(«) ignioc, on the monument at S. Clements, Truro, is in characters 

 so much smaller than vitali, &c, that it can only be regarded as the 

 signature of the writer. 



(b) There is no need to suppose an error in f^p&rrmi. On the 

 contrary, in this form, compared with nipeinni at Kilbonane, 

 foc&mn — at Hook Point, Wexford, and y<\~i&mm at Roovesmore, 

 we must recognize one of the finest links of connexion between the 

 monuments " east and west of the Ictian sea." 



(c) If m&ckwy occurs in the " Mabinogion," it is quite excep- 

 tional, and must be regarded as borrowed. The old m&<]&f m&cp, 

 and the later m&c, are as distinctly Gaelic, as m&p is Cymric. 



(d) By the kindness of the Eev. J. T. Eowler, P. S. A., I am 

 enabled to add a notice of the Latin inscription in the tower of St. 

 Mary le "Wigford, Lincoln. There is abundant evidence that monu- 

 ments of this kind were kept in stock by stone-cutters, with dis ma- 

 xebvs ready written. So here these words are in characters formed 

 much better than those which were supplied when the stone was 

 wanted ; and it is very curious to observe, that the later writer has 

 attempted to take the paganism out of them, by converting one score 

 of m into the Christian monogram. The first word is nomixe, an 

 excellent illustration of &11111 on the Irish monuments (although in 

 the ablative, apparently, as if governed by pko understood) ; then 

 sacki (the name we have noticed in the Gueret inscription) ; bkvsci 



