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 aidmi oipretho pectho intainsin, “these [the passions] were the instruments of the working of sin at that time”. The word is of frequent application throughout the literature, mostly referring to military and ecclesiastical furniture and utensils; cf. LB 11 β 27, 32 β 50; F. Mast. sub ann. 1162, 1178, 1235; vol. pp. 2126, 2234, &c.

findbad: Ml. 14b$4$, ni digned Dd. innuaisletaid innafindbuide adfiadar isintsalmso dothaisilbiud dondfiur adrodar idlu, gl. huic quomodo David beatitudinis apicem contulisset.

Ascoli’s reading ‘quod propheta David’, &c., is not intelligible to me; the sense of the passage is, “how could D. have assigned the title of ‘beatitudinis apex’ to the idolator who had plundered the temple of God, and given away its possessions to a foreigner?” taking digned with dothaisilbiud, as expressive of the contulisset of the Latin text. With the form adrodar, cf. LB. 177a9, or-brisiu-sa in dia d&#8209;ara-dair do brathair-siu, “I destroyed the god whom thy brother worshipped”.

esamain: Ml. 25 b$9$, we find as a gloss to impudentiam confutare inesamni; 27d$8$ quam temerarium, gl. ciafiu esámain; 29 a$11$ audentior, gl. esamnu, &c. There is no doubt of the meaning of the word, so that when Mr. Hennessy, in his excellent rendering of MacConglinny’s Yision, renders buarannach mac elcaib essamain a Sith longthe do-m-anaic-sea [LB. 217 β 54], by “I am Boranagh, son of Joyous-Welcome, from the Hill of Eating”, it causes some surprise. I do not know how Mr. Hennessy got it, nor do I see to which word he intends to give the meaning of welcome; is it elcaib, ‘welcome’, and essamain, ‘joyous’, or the other way?

tairilb: Ml. 36 a$36$ nítáirilb, gl. neque addixerit, 49 b$3$ nitharilb, gl.