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seems to be adverbial, and the most suitable sense, to my mind, is ' here ' or 

 ' thus.' If this be the meaning, it would help to explain the introduction of 

 " hie iacit " into phrases with genitive construction in several British Latin 

 inscriptions which contain names of the Ogham period nomenclature. I 

 can suggest no etymological resemblance except to the particle ce in the 

 frequent poetical locutions, /or litli die, in domun ce, etc. 



26. Luguni locid maqi Alotto, 115. 



Macalister, with the impression that locid denotes something like ' tomb,' 

 says that an inverted locution is here " manifest." It seems safer to look for 

 a term in apposition to Luguni, as in Lugutti velitas 70, or for an adjectival 

 epithet, as possibly in Gosocteas mosac 108, The early MS. equivalent of locid 

 would be lu (o, ua) ch (cc) i d (t), and if this be an o-stem genitive, i would 

 become e in the nom. = *locidas. It appears to me that the equivalent occurs 

 in Zucet mad (nom.) L. Arm. The variants for Ztccet are Zoiet, Zogith, 

 pointing to an early MS. Zocliet, Zochit, in which 6 has not yet become u. 

 Hence Zuchet may be regarded as the normal 0. I. spelling. This corre- 

 sponds to an Ogham form *locidas, gen. *locidi, late locid, in which c = ch, and 

 d = 0. I. t = early Celtic nt. The words, " Zucet mael qui et Eunal^' with 

 which the name is introduced by ]\Iuirchu, indicate Eonal as the personal 

 name, and Zucet iitael, ' the tonsured L.,' as a secondary appellation. Lucet 

 Mael was one of the two chief druids of Loiguire, king of Ireland. 



D. — CusTOMAEY Terms and Youmtjlm. 



1. The most frequent term is maqi, normally with the literal meaning 

 ' son,' used in apposition to the proper name which precedes. 



2. But in a considerable number of instances maqi forms part of a proper 

 name, as in the MS. nomenclature, e.g. Mac Bethad, Mac Paagla, forenames, not 

 patronymics. In Oghams this use is distinguishable in two ways: ( 1) maqi is 

 the first word in the inscription ; (2) maqi is preceded by maqi or avi or 

 mucoi. 



3. Names so formed do not indicate the actual filial relation. Maqi 

 Ttal(i) maqi Vorgos (91) does not mean 'son of Tal son of Euirg' in the 

 sense that Tal is the father of the person commemorated. That person's 

 name is Maqi-Tal, Mac Tail of the genealogies. Mace Tail, Mactcdeus of L. Arm. 

 This name is explained in LB 89 : ocus is aire is Mace Tail ar thai in tsaeir 

 do ffahdil—' It (he) is Mace Tail by reason of taking up or plying the {tal) 

 adze of the craftsman.' 



4. Maqi Liag may be explained on analogous lines, as meaning one 

 devoted to the craft of great stones. The Ogham monuments bear witness 

 that the stone-cutter's craft was not established in Ireland in their time. 



