Succat ejus notnen in Tribubus dictum, Quis ejus Pater sit notum, Filius (fuit) Calpurnii, filii Otidi, Nepos deaconi Odissi. III. Fuit sex annis in servitate, Excis hominum (Gentilium) non vescebat, Fuit ei nomen adoptivum Cothriagh Quatuor Tribubus quia inserviit. IV. Dixit Victor(ei) servo Milchonis, Iret trans fluctus. Posuit suos pedes supra saxum, Manet exinde ejus vestigia. [Picture: CALIGULA'S TOWER, CALLED NEMTOR BY THE MARINI.] V. Profectus est trans Alpes omnes, Trans Maria, fuit faelix expedition Et remansit apud Germanum In australi parte australis Lethaniae. The following beautiful free translation of these verses is taken, with kind permission, from Monsignor Edward Watson, M.A.'s, translation of St. Fiacc's ode: I. "At Nemthur, as our minstrels own, Heaven's radiance first on Patrick smiled, But fifteen summers scarce had thrown A halo round the holy child, When captured by an Irish band He took their Isle for fatherland. Succat by Christian birth his name, Heir to a noble father's fame. Calphurnius' son, of Potit's race, And deacon Odis' kin and grace, Six years of bondage he must bear With faithful fast from heathen fare. And Cothriagh now his name and due, Who holding high allegiance true, Yet served four little lords of earth (God's servant he of forefold worth) Till Victor bade him Milchu's slave To fly across the freeman's wave. He fled, but first upon the rocky shore His footprint set a seal for evermore. II. Then far away beyond the seas, In happy flight o'er many a land, O'er many a mountain on he flees To face Lethania's southern strand, Nor rested long upon the road Until he gained Germain's abode." St. Fiacc states that the Apostle of Ireland was born at Nemthur-- Nemthur, as all commentators agree, is not the name of a town, but of a tower. "Neam-thur Hebernica vox est quse coelestem, sive altam turrim denotat." "Neamthur is an Irish word which denotes a heavenly, or a high tower" (Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres, Tom i., p. 96-- O'Conor). Assuming that St. Patrick was born in the suburbs, and close to the town of Bononia, or Banaven, as it has already been proved from his "Confession," St. Fiacc's declaration that his Patron was born at Nemthur admits of a very lucid explanation. Nemthur was situated in the suburbs and close to the town of Bonaven. St. Fiacc gives the name of the district, but St. Patrick gives the name of the town near which he was born. Singularly enough Caligula's famous tower on the sea coast of Boulogne was called Turris Ordinis by the Romans, but Nemtor by the Gauls, as Hersart de la Villemarque clearly proves in his "Celtic Legend" (p. 213), and the tower itself has given its name to the locality where it once stood, which is called even at the present time Tour d'Ordre--the French translation of "Turris Ordinis."