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Were my acquaintance with the oldest
remains of written Irish wider and more
exact than it is, I might, possibly enough,
find good cause to modify, or even to
abandon, the position here taken up. But
in the Old Irish texts which have been
edited by Zeuss and by Stokes, as well as
in authorities so excellent and accurate as
Windisch's Irische Texte and his Kurzgc-
fasste Irische Grammatik, I have met with
nothing to invalidate, but have found, on
the contrary, a good deal to strengthen
that position. On pp. ii6, 117 of Win-
disch's work last named, no fewer than four
examples of the idiom in question may
readily be found, and two examples of it
meet the eye on p. 121. Without quoting
the sentences at length, I will take the two
examples which can best be separated from
the context : ni acca nccJi acht Condla a
o'eiittr=\\& had none but Conn alone; vmc
sainmeal oc JViiadai^ =Nua.d3!s most dis-
tinguished son. See also Windisch's Irische
Texte, m "Seel mucci Mic Datho," p. 96,
btd cii oca — h\\'^i cu ai2re = he had a doQf