[165.] Three oaths that do not require fulfilment[97]: the oath of a woman in birth-pangs, the oath of a dead man, the oath of a landless man.
[97] Literally, 'a counter-oath, a second oath.'
[166.] Three ranks that ruin tribes in their falsehood: the falsehood of a king, of a historian, of a judge.
[167.] Three free ones that make slaves of themselves: a lord who sells his land, a queen who goes to a boor, a poet's son who abandons his (father's) craft.
[168.] Three brutes whose trespasses count as human crimes: a chained hound, a ferocious ram, a biting horse.
169. Three brutish things that atone for crimes: a leashed hound, a spike in a wood, a lath....[98]
[98] comneibi is a ἁπαξ λεγομενον to me.
[170.] Three things that ... salt-meat, butter, iron....[99]
[171.] Three signs that ... [99] in a judge's house: wisdom, information, intellect.
[172.] Three things that should be proclaimed: the flesh-fork of a caldron, a bill-hook without a rivet, a sledge-hammer without....[99]