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S. Aug. de Civ. Dei, xv. 23; Isidore, Orat. viii. 2. 103. Dusios may be connected with Lithuanian dvaese, "spirit," and perhaps with [Greek: Thehos] (Holder, s.v.). D'Arbois sees in the dusii water-spirits, and compares river-names like Dhuys, Duseva, Dusius (vi. 182; RC xix. 251). The word may be connected with Irish duis, glossed "noble" (Stokes, TIG 76). The Bretons still believe in fairies called duz, and our word dizzy may be connected with dusios, and would then have once signified the madness following on the amour, like Greek [Greek: nympholeptos], or "the inconvenience of their succubi," described by Kirk in his Secret Commonwealth of the Elves.
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LL 12b; TOS v. 234.
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Rh[^y]s, HL 549.
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Skene, i. 276, 309, etc.
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Sigerson, Bards of the Gael, 379.
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Miss Hull, 288; Hyde, Lit. Hist. of Ireland, 300.
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RC xxvi. 21.
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Skene, ii. 506.
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D'Arbois, ii. 246, where he also derives Erigena's pantheism from Celtic beliefs, such as he supposes to be exemplified by these poems.
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LU 15a; D'Arbois, ii. 47 f.; Nutt-Meyer, ii. 294 f.