White — Latin Writings of St. Patrick. 295 



Italiam totam atque in insolis quae sunt in mari Terreno ut ipse 

 dixit in commemoratione laborum." The reference is to one of the 

 Bicta Patricii^ " Timorem Dei habui ducem iteneris mei per Gallias 

 atque Italiam etiam in insolis . . . Terreno," and not to any lost work, 

 Commemoratio laborum^ by St. Patrick, as "W, Stokes supposes ( Vit. 

 Trip,, p. xci). 



P. 249, 1. 13. Rideat, &c. — This refers to the jeers that were 

 called forth by Patrick's rusticitas, 



P. 249, 1. 28. Agnoui gratiam. — Cf. Gal. ii. 9, " Cum cognouissent 

 gratiam quae data est mihi " ; and 1 Cor. iii. 10. 



P. 250, 1. 5. Praestaui et praestabo is modelled on 2 Cor. xi. 9, 

 " Seruaui et seruabo." 



P. 250,11. 16, 17. Inficleles . . ,incredulis. — The latter word has the 

 connotation of ' scoffing unbelief.' Infideles means simply ' heathen ' : 

 Cf. § 37 ' Ab incredulis contumelias perferre." 



P. 250, 1. 20. Scriptulae. — Scriptula = scriptulum = scrupuliim, the 

 twenty-fourth part of an ounce, the smallest division of anything ; 

 possibly here used of the screpall or sical^ an ancient Celtic silver coin 

 weighing twenty-four grains (Joyce, Social History of Aiicierit Irelayid^ 

 Lond., 1903, vol. ii., p. 381). 



P. 251, 1. 7. JIoH autem^ &c. — Ti'rechan (^Booh of Armagh^ fol. 10'°, b.) 

 fixes this incident as taking place on Patrick's journey to the wood 

 of Pochloth in the company of Endeus and his brothers : " Extendit 

 [expendit] Patricius etiam praetium xu animarum hominum, ut in 

 scriptione sua adfirmat, de argento et auro, ut nullum malorum 

 hominum inpederet eos in uia recta transeuntes totam Hiberniam.'* 

 The judges implied in the reading of B, qui iudicahant^ are by 

 0' Conor thought to be the Brehon judges. It is right to note 

 that the reading here of F3P4, as well as of C, is certainly indicalant, 

 I have twice verified it myself by personal inspection of the MSS. ; 

 and an independent examination by a competent collator resident in 

 Oxford has confirmed my reading. There is no allusion to judges 

 of any sort in Ti'rechan. 



P. 252, 1. 2. Elegit jne.—QL St. Sechnall's Hymn, 1. 13, " Dominus 

 ilium elegit ut doceret barbaras Nationes," &c. 



P. 252,1.6. Scrutatur. — The reading of CF3F4, sm^^a^or, might be 

 explained to mean that Patrick is conscious of his own integrity to 

 such a degree that he will assume the divine function of searching 

 1 out his heart. 



I P. 252, 1. 11. Testem. — The reading of Boll, is less disturbing to 

 the text than would be testimonium, which has occurred to me. Cf. 



