Dennis wrote:

>> "Cia baidit cenna ni baidit mbruighe."

>Okay.  Do you think this is first and foremost a maxim that
>embodies this legal precept, or a general purpose proverb 
>that was made to serve here?  Or is this a meaningless question?

I suspect it might be the latter - a general saying about the mortality
of individual kin-leaders and the contrasting durability of the kin
itself (and in particular its land). Very much like your quotation from
Ecclesiastes (1:4). But it's hard (sorry, make that impossible) to know
for sure. The miscellany is made up of fragments from various texts, so
the context is missing.

Neil
 

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