MacNeill — Silva Focluti. 255 



P. 66. Taloi'i Adventi Maquerigi filius. 

 P. 70. Advecti films Guani hie iaeit. 

 QiienaUuci ic Dinui filius. 

 Euguiatio fill Vendoni. 

 Oorbalengi iacit Ordous (= Ordouix). 

 P. 72. Vitaliani emereto. 

 P. 74. Dervaci filius lusti ic iacit. 

 P. 76. Dobituci filius Evolengi. 



P. 79. Boduoci hie iacit filius Catotigirni pronepus Eternali Vedomavi. 

 P. 82. Pili Cunalipi Cunaci ic iacit. 

 P. 84. Figulini fill Loculiti hie iacit. 

 P. 85. Tunccetace uxsor Daari hie iacit. 



[As at pp. 12, 15, 34, the genitive in -e (= -ae) replaces the nominative 

 in ft.] 



P. 88. Bi'ocagni hie iacit Nadotti filius. 

 lovenali fill Eterni hie iacit. 

 Meli medici fill Martini iacit. 

 P. 89. Cunogusi hie iaeit. [Here again, as at p. 5, there is a change of 

 declension. Cunogussus is of the U-deelension.] 



P. 90. Hie [in] tumulo iacit E . . . stece filia Paternini. [As at p. 85, 

 R . . . stece is probably genitive.] 



P. 92. Seaaeus pr(e) sb(yter) hie iaeit cum multitudinem fratrum. 

 P. 95. Turpilli ie iaeit puueri Triluni Dunoeati. 

 P. 96. Carausius hie iacit in hoc congeries lapidum. 



The prevalence of the genitive case-ending in the title-name may be 

 ascribed to the influence of the Ogham inscriptions. Professor Macalister 

 has found remains of Oghams accompanying a number of the Latin 

 inscriptions of western Britain, in addition to a few previously recorded. 

 The examples cited above show, however, that the peculiar misuse of case- 

 endings is by no means confined to title-names, and is not to be explained as 

 an imitation of the Ogham formulae. Even if hie iacet be taken for an 

 extra-syntactical element and eliminated from the syntax, it is still evident 

 that those who used Latin in almost all parts of western maritime Britain 

 were no longer possessed of a sense of case-inflexion. 



Additional Note. — As this paper goes to press, Mr. E. I. Best has drawn 

 attention to a brief notice by the late Professor Kuno Meyer (Zur Keltischen 

 Wortkunde, viii, p. 619, Kgl. Preuss. Akad. d. Wissensch. Sitzungsber. pbil.- 

 hist. kl. 1918) on the name Ulaid, with reference to Ptolemy's Ov\ovvtiol and 

 to U(o)loti in Muirchu (Trip. 286, 12), and in the passage above cited from 

 Book of Ballymote, 1966 23. 



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