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24, but left unchanged in § 25, possibly because in this last place it 

 was supposed to come from experior. Ducange quotes expergo in the 

 sense of expergefacio from Nonnus, " Expergite pectora tarda." Ex- 

 pertus is most likely a provincial or vulgar pronunciation of experrectm 

 or expergitus. Dr. Gwynn has called my attention to the fact that 

 twice over A shortens experlrec'ltus, and lengthens eff[ici~\atus, 

 each by three letters. He suggests that possibly the exemplar had 

 expertus. . . . effatus, with rec in the margin, meant to be inserted in 

 expertus, and that an ignorant scribe mistook it for a correction of 

 effatus, and finally blundered into efficiattis. 



P. 243,1. 2. Leo gratias. — CFsFi connect these words with the pre- 

 ceding clause. See note on p. 241, 1. 12. 



P. 243, 1. 5. The insertion in Boll, aitev peritissimts is taken from 

 Vita iv. 17, the only variation being spiritihus for spiritu. It also 

 occurs in almost identically the same words in Yita ii. 13, and Trip., 

 p. 18. The Yitse, however, say that Patrick heard these voices while 

 a captive in Ireland. Prof. Bury thinks that orabat has fallen out 

 after peritissimis, 



P. 243, 1. 6. Effatus. — A reads efflciatus here and in 1. 12. In this 

 place all the later copyists understood the meaning to be affatus ; but in 

 1. 12 F3 and R seem to have taken it from efficio in the sense 

 'transform.' So Ferguson, "He showed, a bishop." As I have not 

 been able to find any example in Ducange of efficiatus as = affatus or 

 effatus, and as the same sense is evidently intended in both places, it 

 seems better to read effatus in both ; it occurs again § 33. Dr. Gwynn 

 suggests as barely possible that Patrick coined the word efficior as the 

 opposite of inficior, and thus = 'to affirm.' 



P. 243, 1. 12. Effatus est ut sit Spiritus, — The context proves that 

 Spiritus is the correct reading here, although B, if we may trust 

 Denis, is the only ms. that gives it, not counting r4 corr. Episcojms 

 is written almost fully in A ; it is contracted 7ps in the other mss. 

 {sps = spiritus). Ferguson explains it of " the internal presence of the 

 great bishop of souls." 



P. 243, 1. 18. TJenerxmt et. — The fact that E, reads et makes it likely 

 that ol in Boll, is a conjecture by Denis. He would connect uenerunt 

 contra. In the text, as it stands, the sentence is broken off owing to 

 the writer's emotion. 



P. 243, 1. 21. Conculcatione. The noun occurs in Is. v. 5, xxii. 5, 

 xxviii. 18 ; the verb in Pss. Ivi. 1,2; Ivii. 3. 



P. 243, 1. 24. Occasionem.—lihQ end of § 26 and beginning of § 27 

 read thus in CF3F4E : reputetnr occasiomm. Post, &c. The passage is 



