Part 13 (2/2)

172. Tri dlegat aurfocrai: ael coire, fidba cen [.s]eim, ord cen dimosc.

[Note 172: dlegait urfograe N fidbaigh can tseim ord gan dimosc N dinsem L]

173. Tri doruis gua: tacra fergach, fotha n-utmall n-eolais, aisneis cen chuimni.

[Note 173: fothad utmall N eolus aisena oca_n_ coimni N]

174. Tri doruis a n-aichnither fir: frecra n-ainmnetach, ai fossad, soud fri fiadnu.

[Note 174: an aithnit_er_ fiorinne N freaccra n-ainmnedach N ainmeta L ai fosaid sodad N]

175. Tri buada airechta: brithem cen fuasnad, etirchert cen ecnach, coma cen diupairt.

[Note 175: fuasna L]

176. Tri tonna cen gaissi: tacra calad, breth cen eolas, airecht labar.

[Note 176: ton_n_a gaisi N donnadgaissi L tonna gan gaoise H. 1. 11 brethem N]

177. Tri buada insci: fosta, gais, gairde.

[Note 177: buadad innsce N gois N]

178. Tri c.u.mtaig gaisse: immed n-eolais, lin fa.s.sach, dagaigni do airbirt.

[Note 178: lion fasaid N]

163. Three usucaptions that are not ent.i.tled to a fine: fear, warning, asportation.

164. Three wages that labourers share: the wages of a caldron,[96] the wages of a mill, the wages of a house.

[96] _i.e._ of making a caldron, &c.

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 trespa.s.ses 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 [Greek: hapax legomenon] to me.

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