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ngs that are best for a chief: justice, peace, an army. 243. Three things that are worst for a chief: sloth, treachery, evil counsel. 244. The four deaths of judgment: to give it in falsehood, to give it without forfeiture, to give it without precedent, to give it without knowledge. 245. Three things that ruin wisdom: ignorance, inaccurate knowledge, forgetfulness. 246. Three nurses of dignity: a fine figure, a good memory, piety. 247. Three nurses of high spirits: pride, wooing, drunkenness. 248. Four hatreds of a chief: a silly flighty man, a slavish useless man, a lying dishonourable man, a talkative man who has no story to tell.[121] For a chief does not grant speech save to four: a poet for satire and praise, a chronicler of good memory for narration and story-telling, a judge for giving judgments, an historian for ancient lore.[122] [121] _i.e._, who has nothing worth hearing to say. [122] See a similar passage in Ancient Laws i., p. 18, and in the tale called, 'The Conversion of Loegaire to the Faith' (Rev. Celt. iv., p. 165). 249. Three dark[123] things of the world: giving a thing into keeping, guaranteeing, fostering. [123] _i.e._, uncertain what will come of them. 250. Tri urgarta bid: a chaithem cen altugud, a chaithem d'eis oiged, a chaithem rena thrath coir. [Note 250: haurgartho N^1 hurgairt HM hurghairrthe H^2 d'aithli aidead H coir om. NH^2 iarna coir M] 251. Cetheora aipgitre gaise: ainmne, sonmathe, sobraid[e], sothnges; ar is gaeth cach ainmnetach [et] sai cach somnath, fairsing cach sobraid, sochoisc cach sothengtha. [Note 251: somna sobraicch H^2 sobes N soingthes H^2 somnoigh H^2 farsigh [_leg._ farsing] .i. sgaoiltech H^2] 252. Cetheora aipgitre baise: baithe, condailbe, imresan, doingthe. 253. Teora sirechta flatha: cuirmthech cen aisneis, buiden cen erdonail, dirim cen chona. [Note 253: airdanail N erdanail N^1] 254. Tri indchoisc ordain do duine: .i. sodelb, saire, sulbaire. [Note 254: a tri ina coisceadh ordan M suirbire H] 255. Tri guala dona fess fudomain: guala flatha, guala ecalse, guala nemid filed. [Note 255: dana H fodhomain M] 256. Tri feich nach dlegar faill: feich thire, duilgine achaid, argius aiste. [Note 256: nat eple faill M aichid M argui_us_ H] 250. Three prohibitions of food: to eat it without giving thanks, to eat it before its proper time, to eat it after a guest. 251. Four elements[124] of wisdom: p
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