[73] See Todd's Irish Nennius, p. 199, and Zeitschrift für Celt. Phil, v., p. 23.
[74] Nothing is known to me about this wonder.
108. Three oratories of Ireland: the oratory of Birr, the oratory of Clonenagh, the oratory of Leighlin.
[109.] Three maidens that bring hatred upon misfortune: talking, laziness, insincerity.
[110.] Three maidens that bring love to good fortune: silence, diligence, sincerity.
111. Three silences that are better than speech: silence during instruction, silence during music, silence during preaching.
[112.] Three speeches that are better than silence: inciting a king to battle, spreading knowledge (?),[75] praise after reward.[76]
[75] Sreth immais, which I have tentatively translated by 'spreading knowledge,' is used as a technical term in poetry for connecting all the words of a verse-line by alliteration, as e.g. slatt, sacc, socc, simend, saland. See Ir. Texte iii., p. 30.
[76] Cf. LL. 344a: Carpre asks Cormac what are the sweetest things he has heard, and Cormac answers: 'A shout of triumph after victory, praise after reward, the invitation of a fair woman to her pillow.'
[113.] Three impossible demands: go! though you cannot go, bring what you have not got, do what you cannot do.