296 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



1 Tim. yi. 13, [Jesus] qui testimonium reddidit sub Pontio 

 Pilato," &c. 



P. 252, 1. 12. Transitum, — It is possible that this is a rendering 

 of e'l^oSo?, S. Luke ix. 31, 2 Pet. i. 15. The extant renderings in 

 S. Luke are excessum, e^itti?n, consummationem. The verse in 2 Pet. 

 is quoted as in Vulg. in § 14, ' Post obitum meum.' Cf . S. John xiii. 1, 

 'Hora eius ut transeat ex hoc mundo.' The only 0. L. MS. that 

 contains the verse is 7^, which has pQsitis etiam corporihus. 



Epistola . 



As has been pointed out in the first note on the Confession, the 

 original title of this composition was Liher secundus 8. Patricii^ or 

 Lib. sec. l^pistolarum. Ussher {op. cit., p. 818) says : " De genere suo 

 ita scribit ipse Pat. (si modo titulus non f allat) in epistola ad Coroticum 

 tyrannum : Ingenuus fui secu7idum carnem decorione patre nascor^^'' 

 quoting from C. ; and consequently, in Ware's ed., it is entitled 

 >S'. P. ad Coroticum Epidola. Denis, in the Bollandist ed., has a long 

 note pointing out that it was not sent to Coroticus personally ; and he 

 accordingly entitles it Epistola S. Patricii ad Christianos Carotid 

 tyranni suhditos. He informs us that it had no special title in his ms. 



Coroticus himself, according to Todd {St. Patrick, p. 352), "is 

 supposed to have been the Caredig, or Ceredig, son of Cynedda, who 

 flourished in the fifth century, and who gave his name to the county of 

 Cardigan, called by the Welsh, Caredigiawn." Perguson, on the other 

 hand {op. cit., p. 116), asserts with some confidence that the title of 

 Muii'chu's 28th chapter, Pe co^iflictu Sancti Patricii aduersum Coirthech 

 regem Aloo, proves that " in the seventh century, the Coroticus of 

 Patrick's epistle was regarded as king of Ailclyde, the capital of the 

 kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons," since Alo-clotha is the form in 

 which Ailclyde is presented in the older Irish Annals." This is 

 proved almost to demonstration by W. P. Skene {Celtic Scotland, 

 vol. I., p. 158, n.) and by Zimmer {Celtic Church, p. 54). This gives 

 point to Ep. 2, " ^^"on dico ciuibus meis." I subjoin Muirchu's 

 chapter 28, as given by Hogan ; the words in brackets are the read- 

 ings of the MS. 



" Quoddam mirabile [Quod ammirabile] gestum Patricii non tran- 

 sibo silentio. Huic nuntiatum est nequissimum opus cuiusdam regis 

 britannici nomine Corictic, infausti crudelisque tyranni. Hie namque 

 erat maximus persecutor interfectorque christianorum. Patricius 



