SERVIUS.
(Cod. Bernensis, MSS. lit. 363.)
Castores autem a castrando dicti sunt. Virosa autem aut f. 31b uenenata. Nam licet sint multis remedio, tamen praegnantes eorum 5 odore abiiciunt et egerunt partum togluaset chombairt^. [In marg.] togluasacth^.
Et mystica uannus lacchi, id est cribrj^m areale criathar atho^. f. 34a
Bufo . rana terrestris nimiae magnitudinis mac salach'^^. f. 34b
spiras funium .i loman cecorse. f. 37 b
oculorum [cla] f. 42b
The context is : Nam aut insitio dicitur cum fisso trunco surculus fecundae arboris sterili inseritur, aut oculorum impositio cum incise cortice libro alienae arboris germen inserimus**.
et Gaurus sliab gar gain. f. I04a
upper marg. Brigit dixit. Isel friart tailciud • frigargg • cdich f. 117 a auuair^ • cachdin dodgena samlid bid reid riam each • namr&id*
lege hie librum fabularum robartaich f. 128 a
In sciomantia — [marg.] corrg(ui)nec{ht) — uero quia umbrae tantum f. 129a est euocatio sufficit solus intent us.
focam .i. ron. f. 133 b
concha satis pure [leg. salis puri] ruidgaV. f. I86b
1. they abort oflfspring. 2. the sieve of a kiln. 4. mountain
of Garganus. 5. Lowly towards the high, a yielding to the fierce,
every man's in turn*: whosoever shall do thus, every rough will be smooth
1$ before him.
The following fourteen Irish names occur in the margins,: Brigit f. 117», Cathasach 179"», Colggu 9V>, Comgan 21», 31«, 32», 32^ 33«, 34», 35», Cormac 65», 80», 113^ 114», 117», 137", 138», Dub{thach) 22», 27», 147», Dungal 54», Fergus 24», 84», 127=, 142»«, 164», Mace Longdin 64", Suadbar 140». f. 131" in marg. opposite 'Sybillam Apollo dilexit et ei obtulit poscendi quod uellet arbitrium. ilia (Sybilla) hausit harenam mani- bus et tarn longam uitam poposcit. Cui Apollo respondit id posse fieri si Erithriam insulam relinqueret et eam nunquam uideret' — sicut mac Cialldin^. f. 94" in marg. opposite 'magica ars,' Taircheltach'. The gloss on fo. 10», which Hagen and Stem (Celt. Zeitsch. iv. 184) read as an Irish tent, is Lat. geni, i.e. genitium, and glosses caricis, Verg. EcL 3, 20. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
- ↑ leg. togltiasachtidi ? ' procurers of abortion '
- ↑ cf. bid intechta trid criathar n-dtha bar ihhruar, LU. 96»
- ↑ Nigra, Rev. Celt. ii. 448, read this gloss as muoralach
- ↑ cf. Verg. Georg. ii. 69 and KZ. 35, 593
- ↑ cf. cech fochaid a Mair, Ml. 39* 31 ; for cech lin a huair. Ml. 115» 14 ; is caich a huair an aros-so. Laud 610, fo. 97» 1
- ↑ this seems a proper name : see Four Masters 878
- ↑ cf. Toti traat yiyova t4 vivra, 1 Cor. ix. 22.
- ↑ identified by Stern (Celt. Zeitsch. iv. 182) with a deacon named Niall mac Gial- lain (Fiallain, lallain) who is said to have fasted for thirty years, been paralysed for thirty-four years, seen many visions, and died in 854 or 858
- ↑ see as to this magician. Three Fragments of Irish Annals, ed. O'Donovan, p. 136.
