90 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



88. The poem Caisil atcondarc ane, H. 3. 17, p. 724, has this quatrain : — 



Ceithre Partraighe im Bri Ois, 

 eeithre Gaihnga o eis Ghais, 

 ceithre Cianaeht cairde cneis, 

 ceithre Delbna dal chis Cais. 



89. A smaller subdi-\dsion among the Gauls is known to us by the Latin 

 name vicus. Caesar, who captured a written census among the spoils of the 

 Helvetii, says that this people, numbering in all 368,000, comprised 400 vici, 

 so that each vicus averaged 920 inhabitants. The phrase vicani Segorigienses, 

 found in an inscription of the Prussian Ehine-Province, seems to point to a 

 vicus named Segorigion. The Irish equivalent would be Segr{a)ige, which may 

 be actually represented in the late Middle-Irish spelling Sedraige, one of the 

 vassal-peoples named in the Book of BaUymote. Nevertheless, it is hardly 

 likely that the I rish names in -rige and the other collective names of co- 

 ordinate import originated as designations of a population so small as that of 

 the Gaulish vicus. Eather it is fairly ob'sdous that the continental -rigion, which 

 must have once meant a people governed by a king, had degenerated in usage. 



90. We may probably best regard the Irish group bearing a collective 

 name as corresponding to the so-called jja^ws among the Gaulish peoples. 

 There are sufficient indications that the collectively-named groups arose as 

 subdivisions of nations bearing plural names. The instances of the Lagin and 

 the Aral have already been noticed. 



91. The Cruithni in Ireland included Dal Araidi, Conaille, Loigis, and 

 Sogaiu. Do Chruithnihh Ercnn do Bhal Araidhe na scacht Lcdghsi Laighen 7 

 seacM Soghain Erenn 7 gach Comdlle fil in Erinn (Mac F. Genealogies 

 unpaged, ex'idently a quotation from some early writer). 



92. The Erainn included Muscraige, Corcu Baiscinn, C. Duibne, Dal Eiatai, 

 etc. 



93. The Galeoin comprised three tuathct, Tuath Fidga, Tuath Ochmaine, 

 and Tuath Aithechda. 



94. The Mugdoirn included Dubraige or Corcu Duib, Papraige, Ciarraige, 

 Sortraige, Artrige, Corcu Inomain, Suobraige. " SeacJd maic Mul^ldoirn Duib 

 .i. Did)h a quo Dubhraidhi oc Imleach Corco Duib Papa a quo Papraighi la 

 Creamthanna Ciaro a quo Ciarraidhe So7't a quo Sortraige la Crimthanna a 

 quibus Espoc, Ibair m&c Zuighnc Lasar ainvi a muthar duna Deisib Art 

 mac Mugdhoirn a quo Artrighe. la Ullto Inonion a, quo Corco Inomhain la 

 Zaighniu de quibus Lochene in sui irero drocaidh Sues dubh a quo Suobraidhe 

 la Mugdornu a quibus Espoc Ethern i nDomnach Mar Maic Laifthi sed cuius 

 filiits Mugdorn Dub d'Ulltaib ignoratus (ignoratur)." BB 110 a 38. 



