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P. 242, 1. 3. Ua node. — The providential appearance of the herd 

 of swine seems to be dated eighteen days after the landing. Patrick's 

 captivity of two months began that night, and lasted a month and a 

 }ialf after the party reached their destination. The transposition in 

 13oll. of §§ 21 and 22 vras intended, no doubt, to place events in proper 

 sequence of time. 



Muirchu (B), cap. 3., places Patrick's second captivity "many 

 years" after the incident of the sailors, "Et iterum post multos 

 annos captui'am ab alienigenis pertulit." Cap. 4 opens with, "Et 

 iterum post paucos annos ut antea in patria sua propria apud parentes 

 suos requievit." This, as Prof. Bury shows, is a blunder due to 

 Patrick's parenthetical mention of it {Guardian, iN'ov. 20, 1901). 



P. 242, 11. 6, 9. It should be noted that lluirchu read sexagessimo die 

 . . . decwio die . . . ad homines.''^ The reading quarto decimo die was 

 probably due to the occurrence of the phrase in § 52. 



P. 242, 1. 9. Peruenimus omnes. — The reading of CF4, ad homines 

 is tempting, but must be rejected in confonnity with the principles 

 which we have accepted. When the words occur for the second time, 

 1. 11, the evidence (A Boll. E3 E) for onmes is overwhelming, and 

 practically determines the reading in the first occurrence also. There 

 F3 is defective; and it is uncertain whether ad was in R or not, owing 

 to the dilapidated condition of the MS. ; and, as A Boll, omit ad, we 

 must suppose homines of Boll. E, to be a blunder for om^ies. At the 

 same time it must be confessed that ad homines gives a better sense. 



P. 242, 1. 12. Pritannis—ToM {St. Patrick, p. 356, note 2) observes 

 that ' ' the plural number denotes the Roman Britanniae or provinces of 

 Great Britain," i.e., Britannia Prima, Britannia Secunda, Maxima 

 Caesariensis, Flavia Caesariensis, and Yalentia. Ferguson renders, 

 "Amongst the Britons, as in the Irish gloss on Fiacc, in hretnaib.^- 

 Patrick also uses the plural Gallias, p. 248, 1. 25. Note the variations 

 in spelling here of the mss., and that Brittanniis is the form in 

 §§ 32, 43. 



P. 242, 1. 14. Nusquam. — Muirchu (B), cap. 4, reads mimquam 

 with rell. 



P. 242, 1. 16, JJidiin uisu metis occurs again in § 29. This justifies 

 us in regarding the reading of A here, in sinu noctis, as a blunder. 

 According to Muirchu (B), cap. 4, Patrick at the time of these visions 

 was thirty years old. Prof. Bury {Guardian, Nov. 20, 1901) points 

 out that this is a blunder based on a misunderstanding of § 27, 

 "Post annos triginta." Muirchu (B), capp. 4, 5, 6, interposes a visit 

 to Rome, and a long stay with Germanus in Gaul, between certain 



