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Ireland and the Making of Britain
part of his life in gaiety and arrogance, and the latter
part swollen to a dreadful bulk of corpulency with running
and loathsomely smelling sores, and who died hor-
ribly the death of persecutors, such as Lactantius
describes. A future historian of empires may have cause
to read a moral and draw an analogy from the course and
end of persecuting empires and the careers and fate of
the persecutors who first conceived them and endowed
them with their spirit.
Forcubus caichduini imbia arrath inlebran colli
aratardda bendact forainmain in truagain rodscribai.
Colophon from the Book of Deir, ninth century.
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