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of the aithechtuatha. It appears to mean ' lad of chariots,' an equivalent of 

 Gorbmac, Corniac. Macorbo = Maq(i) *Corbon shows that in late oghams, as 

 in MS. Irish, two consonants of like value coalesced to form one. It seems 

 safe to regard Corbo as a late Ogham gen. pi. 



3. Suvallos niaqqi Ducovaros 15. 



Du here maybe the genitive of the pronoun fv, 0. I. du cJwbir, 'thy 

 succour/ gen. cho chohro. 



4. Tria maqa Mailagni ) -. _ 

 Curcitti J 



I take Curcitti = nom. Cuircfhc L. Arm. to stand syntactically apart : 

 ' Of the three sons of Maelan. Of Cuircthe.' The only alternative to 

 taking tria maqa as plural genitives, would be to suppose a nom. Tria, which 

 is certamly less probable. Here then the genitive plural ends in -a(n), not, as 

 at § 2, in -o(n). 



5. [a]nme Macalister ii, p. 8, anm, occurring in a number of oghams, 

 usually in association with late forms, is, of course, nominative = ainm, 

 ' name.' 



6. ftrimitir Rronann maq Comogann 56. 



All the words, being o-stems and late, may be either nom. or gen., but in 

 nom. Q,rimiter = ijresbyter would be more likely. 



7. Cunacena 90. The name forms the entire inscription. There can be little 

 doubt that it is a nominative (o-stem). The gen. occurs at Trallong, Breck- 

 nockshire : 



Ogham : Cunacemiiviilvveto, with Latin Canocenni filius Cunoceni Mc iacit. 



8. Grosocteas mosac max Ini, 108. 



Macalister says that, reading thus, mosac "is in false concord." However, 

 there is no difficulty in regarding it, like max = maqi, as a late o-stem genitive. 

 It is apparently an epithet. 



9. Lagobbe muco Tucacac 109. 

 Only an attempted decipherment. 



10. Vicula maq Comgini 123.^ 



The first and second words are probably nominatives. Macalister's 

 translation, ' of Tiacal son of Coemgen,' cannot stand. Vicula = Ficcol or 

 Fkhol. Vicula = Ficcol or Ficliol. Feccol occurs apparently as a genitive in 

 L. Arm. fol. 3 ba, pervenierimt ad Ferti Virorurii Feec (= Ferta Fer Feic), 

 quarn, ut fccbidae fenint, foclorv.nt [sic] viri id est servi Feccol Ferchertni, qui 

 fuerat unus e novim magis, 'prophetis Bregg (Hogan, Documenta de S. Patricio 

 ex L. Arm., p. 32), but the sense seems to demand servi F4ic. 



1 This is a reading of the Gigha ogham, the only known ogham in -western Scotland. 



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