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Fitness of Names. 335
110. Fedlimid Rechtaid, that is, he used to deliver judg-
ments of the Law (of the Old Testament), for he had falio:
that is, similis vindicatio, 'identical retribution', was enforced
by him, i.e. eye for eye, and foot for foot, and hand for hand,
et caetera sic. From the frequency with which he used to follow
the judgments of the Law (recMa) he was called FedUmid
Rechtaid.
111. Conn Cét-chathach, why is he (so) called? Easy to
say. In a hundred (cét) battles (caih) he defeated Muiister: in
a hundi'ed, Ulster; and in sixty, Leinster: whereof the poet said:
A hundred battles on great Munster
Conn Cetchathach the just broke,
A hundred battles on beard -brave Ulster,
Sixty battles ou the Lagenians.
112. Art Oenfer ('Only-man'), whence is he so called?
Easy to say. Because at last Conn had no son save Art alone,
for Connla and Crinna, Conn's other sous, had fallen by
Eochaid Find and by Fiacha Suigde. Whence the poet said
in the Elucidation:
Conn's two brothers, whom he had not put from him.
Eochaid Find, Fiacha Suigde,
Killed Connla and Crinna,
Two sons of Conn, two dear l)oys.
Eochaid Find was a horror (fuath) to Art
After the killing of Conn's two sons.
Art Oenfer was the name he got
After the death of his two brothers.
Or, again, Art was the only choice son which Conn had, for
Crinna fell by Eochaid Find and Fiacha Suigde, and Connla
went on an adventm-e with a fairy woman to Sid Boadaig, as
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