[331] (1) Noteworthy is the explanation of _sed prohibuit illum Deus quia nemo_ etc. (Muirchu 272₂₀) by the insertion of _per quasdam tempestates_ after _Deus_. In the context this is incongruous, and it can hardly have been originated by Nennius. Had he a MS. of Muirchu containing additions inserted from Muirchu’s source? [_Deus_ is in the Bruxellensis, but omitted in the Armachanus.] (2) He changes Muirchu’s _Victoricus_ into _Victor angelus Dei_. (3) He says that Patrick’s first name was _Maun_ (_Magonus_, Tírechán, 302₅). (4) It is to be observed that while Muirchu mentions two views as to the duration of Patrick’s sojourn with Germanus, namely, forty or thirty years, Nennius gives a much smaller period, _per annos septem_. Thus Muirchu’s _Life_ does not explain Nennius, c. 52; he had some additional material. Nennius agrees with Brux, and V₂ V₄ in recording that Palladius died _in terra Pictorum_. [332] Todd Lecture, Series iii. The _Codex Palatino-Vaticanus_, 830, p. 354 _sqq._, cp. 252 _sqq._ [333] _Ib._ 247 _sqq._ [334] Cp. Columbanus, _Epist._ (M.G.H., Epp. iii.) 157, and the notice in the Würzburg MS. of St. Matthew, quoted by Zimmer, _Nenn. Vind._ 252, note (Scheps, _Die ältesten Evangelienhandschriften der Würzburger Bibliothek_, 27). [335] A genealogy of Brito is ascribed by Gilla Coemgin to _senior nobilis Guanach_, and Todd pointed out that the reference was to the _Liber Cuanach_ (Zimmer, _Nenn. Vind._ 250-1). Calling attention to the notice in _Ann. Ult. s.a._ 616, _usque hunc annum scripsit Isidorus cronicon suum_, Zimmer observes that the old recension (up to 616) of Isidore’s chronicle was known in Ireland, and conjectures that its arrival may have been the stimulus which prompted the work of Cuana. [336] An older authority, Maucteus, was quoted by Cuana (_Ann. Ult. s.a._ 471). [337] Dr. MacCarthy quotes appropriately the 20th canon of the Council of Milevi, A.D. 416. [338] See Migne, P.L. 87, 969. [339] For such entries in the blank spaces of a Paschal Table, compare, _e.g._ the _Paschale Campanum_ (_Chron. Min._, ed. Mommsen, i. 745 _sqq._). [340] Mr. Phillimore’s suggestion that _cum_ is a misrendering of the Old-Welsh _cant_ = by, seems improbable, as the notice is not likely to be a translation. I should say that _cum_ is simply a dittogram of the last syllable of _dominicum_, and has ousted _a_. [341] We are indeed enabled to infer that before the tenth century A.D. 457 had been maintained by some to be the date of Patrick’s death. [342] An examination of the dates in the sixth century suggests that the entries of contemporary events did not begin before the seventh. Certainly the erroneous date of the battle of Mons Badonis was a late insertion. [343] For references see Tillemont, _Mémoires_, xv. 769. Leo had taken the step of writing to the Emperor Marcian on the matter in 453. [344] _Vit. Hilarii. Arel._ 16. See Levison, _Neues Archiv_, xxix. p. 99. [345] Levison, _loc. cit._ pp. 125 _sqq._