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tempus ut ueniret et aeuangnelico rete nationes feras et barbaras ad 

 quas docendas misserat ilium Deus, ut piscaretj'^ Similarly the Hymn 

 of St. SechnaU, 1. 13:— 



** Dominus ilium elegit ut doceret barbaras 

 Nationes ut piscaret per doctrinae retia." 



Dr. Todd {Vit. Trip.^ p. 272, note) thougbt tbat Muircbu copied 

 St. Secbnall. But, as Professor Bury {Guardian, I^Tov. 20, 1901) 

 observes, botb may echo the language of the Confession. 



P. 247, 1. 11. Retia nostra tendere, followed as it is by multitudo 

 •copiosa, seems an eclio of S. Luke v. 4. There is, however, no 

 authority there for tender e. The verb is variously rendered : laxate, 

 mittite^ summitte, expandite. 



P. 247, 1. 13. Indigentem et desiderantem may very possibly be the 

 rendering of the Biblical phrase, "the poor and needy," in some 

 ■0. L. text ; but I have not been able to trace it. 



P. 248, 1. 8. Filii Scottormn et filiae regidorum monachi et uirgines 

 Christi occurs again, Ep. 12. It is a rhetorical expression for Filii et 

 filiae reg. Scott. 



P. 248, 1. 10. Una henedicta. — Yillanueva thinks that this most 

 probably refers to Cinnu, who was daughter of Echaid, or Echu, son of 

 Crimthann. Her father desired to wed her to Cormac, son of Coirbre, 

 son of Ni'all, but agreed to allow her to take the veil ; and Patrick 

 gave her into the charge of Cechtumbar, abbess of Druimm-Dubain 

 (Yit. Trip., p. 177). 



Jocelin, cap. 79, says the incident took place "in regionem i^eill," 

 and gives the names as Cynnia, Echu, Cethuberis, Cruim-duchan. 



Cechtumbar was, we are told, the first who took the veil at the 

 hands of St. Patrick; and Yillanueva says that possibly she is the 

 henedicta Scotta of the Confession ; or, again, that possibly St. Brigid is 

 -meant. 



P. 248, 1. 17. Re genere nostro possibly means, 'of my begetting ' ; 

 cf. Ep. 16 " Quos in Christo genui." 



P. 248, 1. 25. Usque ad Gallias. — Gaul being mentioned as the 

 utmost limit of the writer's longings, would seem to imply that his 

 travels had never extended further. Muirchu (B), cap. 4, certainly 

 speaks of Patrick as " egressus ad sedem apostolicam uisitandam et 

 honorandam," but only in the vaguest terms. When Muirchu wrote, 

 it was inconceivable that Patrick should not have visited Kome. 

 Similarly Ti'rechan, " Ambulauit et nauigauit . . . per Gallias atque 



