Haigh — Earliest Inscribed Monuments, 453 



(reminding us of the monument at Trabeg, and of the potter's mark, 

 bbvscf.) ; fili, cms sEN'Ojri (apparently connecting him with Sens 

 in Gaul) ; et caessivnae (formed like AODrvira) ; coxrrois eiys et qvin- 

 tie ; the rest is lost. 



(e) The high rank of the persons who are commemorated by these 

 inscriptions may be inferred from the fact that, in several instances, 

 the places where they are found bear to this day the names of those 

 persons. I have noticed the probability that Tregoney means "three 

 children," and that Bedd Emlyn is "the grave of Aimilinus." So 

 also the epitaph of Saturninus is at Llan Sadwrn ; and that of Paulinus 

 at Pant y Polion, " the valley of Polion " (which stands in the same 

 relation to Paulinus that Vitalianus and Guitolion do to Ghiitolin). 



If) At Seskinan, "Waterford, is an inscription which has been read 



■m^ # n //""ffl hmr 



Y is \\ c 1 r e p n 

 If this should prove to be 



r o p r 1 5 e p n 

 it would be especially interesting. It is so in any case. 



(g) The name of Eoppa, father of Ida, is written 6obb& by 

 Nennius ; that of Eoppa, king of the Mercians, appears as 6ob^ in 

 the " Annales Cambrise." h prefixed to proper names is common in 

 the Irish chronicles. hiobA, therefore, correctly represents this 

 name. 



(h) The genealogy of Pascent (and therefore of Catigirn) was 

 really 



jtoui, 5111C0I11-1, 5111c Mil, f guopdiejipn , p&pcenr. 

 or, ' 



gtncotion, ( 511 op cb en en, ) 



The Harleian MS. 3859 thus represents it, giving guopeben 

 (for ^nopcheneu) correctly as an epithet; and the Irish version 

 omits the epithet altogether, eteexali vedomali also appear to be a 

 name and surname. 



