d to; (6) that we hear nothing in this passage about the rest
of the numerous family of Beoit; and (7) that the family is poor,
having but one cow.

Cenel Fiachach (the clan of Fiachu) occupied a territory covering
parts of the present counties of Westmeath and King's Co. VG
erroneously writes this Cenel Fiachrach, which occupied a territory of
the modern Co. Sligo. _See_ further, p. 171.

_The Princes._--Unfortunately Ainmire mac Colgain, lord of Ui Neill,
and Cremthann, a chieftain of Connacht, are not otherwise known; we
cannot therefore test the chronological truth of this part of the
story. Ainmire reappears as an oppressor in the life of Aed (VSH, ii,
295). LA anachronistically confuses this Ainmire with Ainmire mac
Setna, King of Tara, A.D. 564-566.

It is noteworthy that VG calls Cremthann "King of Ireland." This is in
accordance with the fact that the dynasty which united Ireland under
the suzerainty of the King of Tara was of Connacht origin.[10]

_The Wizard's Prophecy._--The phrase "the noise of a chariot under
a king" is a stock formula in this connexion; compare, with Stokes,
_Vita Sancti Aedui_ in Rees' _Lives of Cambro-British Saints_, p. 233
(also VSH, ii, 295). With the incident compare the story of the druid
rising to welcome the parents of Saint Senan, and when ridiculed for
thus showing honour to peasants explaining that it was to their unborn
child that he was paying honour (LL, 1875). Observe that in both tales
the druid is _mocked_. This touch doubtless belongs to the Christian
chronicler, taking the opportunity of putting the minister of the
rival creed in an invidious position.

_Deacon Iustus_, according to VTP (p. 104) and Tirechan's _Collections
regarding Saint Patrick_ (edited in VTP, see pp. 305, 318) was
consecrated by Saint Patrick, who left with him his ritual book and
his office of baptism, in Fidarta (Fuerty, Co. Roscommon). It was in
his old age that he baptized Ciaran, out of Patrick's book--he was,
indeed, according to the documents quoted, no less than 140 years of
age. The glossators of the _Martyrology of Oengus_ (Henry Bradshaw
Society edition, p. 128) confuse him with Euthymius, the deacon,
martyred at Alexandria. The play on words ("it were fitting that the
_just one_ should be baptized by a _Just One_") is lost in the Irish
version, whence Plummer (VSH, i, p. xlix) infers that this document is
a translation from a Latin original: but the fact proves nothing more
than t