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Acta SS Aedh Aengus the Culdee alleluia ancient Apostles Armagh Armorica Audite autem Bishop Book Book of Armagh Brigid Caimine called century Christ Church Colgan composed copy cuius cujus Cummain Cummain Fota Darerca Deum dicit dicitur died dixit Domhnall Domini Donegal Dublin episcopus evidently Fiachna filius Finnian Four Masters gloss Guaire Guaire Aidhne hæc Hibernia Hymn Hymn of St hymnum inter interpretatur ipse Ireland Irish Jocelin King Latin Leabhar Breac Leatha Liber Hymnorum Lives of St Lombards Lonan Longobards Martyrology Mary mention metre Miliuc Monasterium monastery mother Mugint Nennius nobis nomen omnes Patraic Patricius Patrick Patrick's sister Preface probably quæ quam quia quod relics Restitutus Rioc saints Sancti Sanctorum says scholiast Sech Sechnall Secundinus stanzas story sunt super syllables Talmach Thaum Tripartite Tunc Ultan Ussher verses Virgin vitæ Whiterne word
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Page 8 - Iliad known to scholars, and may be rated as superior to any other which now exists, at least in England ; it is also extremely rich in scholia, which have been hitherto but partially explored.
Page 54 - Senior Fellow of Trinity College. Part I. Containing the following Latin Hymns, with Irish Scholia and Gloss : — i. The Alphabetical Hymn of St. Sechnall, or Secundinus, in praise of St.
Page 89 - At the end of the year he had wasted away, his hair fell off, his intellect decayed, and he became a bald and senseless idiot, keeping company only with the fools and mountebanks of his father's court.
Page 68 - Our Lord has said (St. Matt. xii. 50) that whosoever shall do the will of God, " the same is His brother, and sister and mother" and this perhaps may be all that is meant by St. Brigid's pledging herself to be the Mother of Christ, and making herself so by words and deeds. Colgan explains it thus (Tr.
Page 31 - Peter, and other martyre, in consequence of the accusation he had made agaiust him. And these are the relics" which are now in Ardmacha, in the shrine of Paul and Peter. Now, when Sechnall had finished this Hymn, he went to show it to Patrick ; and when he had reached Patrick, he said to him, " I have composed a hymn in honour of a certain Child of Life,—I wish.that thou wouldest listen to it." Patrick answered, " I welcome the praise of a man of the people of God.
Page 30 - When Patrick heard this, he went to Sechnall, and he was in great wrath. It was when Sechnall had finished the Mass, except taking the Body of Christ, that he heard that Patrick had arrived at the place, and that he was in great wrath against Sechnall.
Page 60 - Audite rírginis laudes is its beginning. The alphabetical order is in it. Moreover he composed it in rhythm. There are three chapters in it, and four lines in each chapter, and sixteen syllables in each line.
Page 97 - Lonaa of Treoit. But Drusticc supposed that Rioc had known her, and she said that Rioc was the father of her son. But this was false, because Rioc was a virgin. Then Mugint was wroth, and sent a certain youth into the Temple, and said to him, Whosoever comes first unto thee this night into the Temple, smite him with an axe.
Page 75 - Rigalt.] brabium, angelicae substantiae politia in caelis, gloria in saecula saeculorum. Itaque epistates vester Christus Jesus, qui vos spiritu unxit et ad hoc scamma produxit, voluit vos ante diem agonis ad duriorem tractationem a liberiore conditione seponere, ut vires corroborarentur in vobis.
Page 31 - Then the angel said to Patrick, " All that shall be thine." So then they made peace, Patrick and Sechnall, and while they were going round the cemetery they heard a choir of angels chanting at the offering in the church, and this is what they chanted, the hymn whose beginning is Sancti venite, Christi corpus, etc.