e oaths that do not require fulfilment[97]: the oath of a woman
in birth-pangs, the oath of a dead man, the oath of a landless man.

[97] Literally, 'a counter-oath, a second oath.'

166. Three ranks that ruin tribes in their falsehood: the falsehood of a
king, of a historian, of a judge.

167. Three free ones that make slaves of themselves: a lord who sells
his land, a queen who goes to a boor, a poet's son who abandons his
(father's) craft.

168. Three brutes whose trespasses count as human crimes: a chained
hound, a ferocious ram, a biting horse.

169. Three brutish things that atone for crimes: a leashed hound, a
spike in a wood, a lath....[98]

[98] _comneibi_ is a [Greek: hapax legomenon] to me.

170. Three things that ... salt-meat, butter, iron....[99]

171. Three signs that ... [99] in a judge's house: wisdom, information,
intellect.

172. Three things that should be proclaimed: the flesh-fork of a
caldron, a bill-hook without a rivet, a sledge-hammer without....[99]

[99] Obscure and probably corrupt.

173. Three doors of falsehood: an angry pleading, a shifting foundation
of knowledge, giving information without memory.

174. Three doors through which truth is recognised: a patient answer, a
firm pleading, appealing to witnesses.

175. Three glories of a gathering: a judge without perturbation, a
decision without reviling, terms (agreed upon) without fraud.

176. Three waves without wisdom: hard pleading, judgment without
knowledge, a talkative gathering.

177. Three glories of speech: steadiness, wisdom, brevity.

178. Three ornaments of wisdom: abundance of knowledge, a number of
precedents, to employ a good counsel.

179. Tri miscena indsci: rigne, dluithe, dulbaire.

[Note 179: miscne indsce N raighni L]

180. Tri fostai dagbanais: fosta thengad [et] gensa [et] airnb_ern_tais.

[Note 180: fosta N fostadh tengad N airb_er_tais N]

181. Tri foindil drochbanais: foindil scel [et] ataid [et] airberntais.

[Note 181: _om._ N]

182. Tri buada etaig: maisse, clithcha, suthaine.

[Note 182: buadhad N cliche N]

183. Tri na dlegat othras: fer aslui flaith [et] fini [et] fili.

[Note 183: nad d_leg_ait dire fer doslaig flaith [et] file [et] fine
N feili L]

184. Tri tharsuinn archuillet othras: echmuir, mil, saillti.

[Note 184: tharsunn L tarsuind aircaillti othiais N]

185. Tri mna na dlegat diri: ben lasma cuma cipe las fai, ben gatach,
ben aupthach.

[Note 1