The life of St. Patrick and his place in history

by J. B. Bury

[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.

[346] Compare Zimmer’s criticism, Celtic Church, 64-5.

[347] Stokes (Urkeltischer Sprachschatz, 198) and Rhŷs seek a Celtic etymology for Magonus. Rhŷs treats it as a derivation from Goidelic magus (whence the Irish mug, “servant”), meaning perhaps originally a “boy.”

[348] His day was Nov. 27; Mart. of Donegal, p. 319.

[349] Dichu of Saul appears in the Martyrology of Donegal under April 29 (p. 114).

[350] Instances are collected by Professor Rhŷs in Proceedings of R.S.A.I. Pt. i. vol. xxxii. p. 5; to which add the Donard stone (ib. Pt. ii. vol. xxxiii. p. 114).

[351] This comes from Muirchu’s Irish source for the legend. See above, [App. A, ii. 3].

[352] For scriptum erat I would read scriptum quod scriptum erat.