[84] The samaisc heifer of the Brehon Laws being ½ oz., and the dairt heifer ⅙ oz., the fattened heifer would naturally take the middle place between them as ¼ oz.
[85] Wasserschleben refers these canons to the fifth century Synod under St. Patrick.
[86] ‘Si colirio indiguerit’ seems to be equivalent to the Irish ‘that requires a tent.’ But Dr. Atkinson informs me that the Irish word literally means ‘a plug of lint.’
[87] Compare this clause with the ‘Book of the Angel,’ Tripartite Life, ii. p. 355. ‘Item si non receperit prædictum præsulem in hospitium eundem et reclusserit suam habitationem contra illum, septem ancillas (cumala) sive septem annos pœnitentiæ similiter reddere cogatur.’
[88] See Senchus Mor, i. p. 43: ‘Equal dire-fine for a king and a bishop, i.e. equal honour-price to the “rig tuath” and the bishop, i.e. of the church of a “rig tuath.”’
[89] P. 141.
[90] i. p. 127.
[91] Pœnitentiale Vinnicii, s. 23; Wasserschleben, p. 113.
[92] Tripartite Life, p. 378 n.
[93] Questions Historiques, pp. 105-117.