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Medieval Irish sympathy for Caesar:

"Marbsat Romain in rig rain
ina nglordail cen glanbaig;
tucsat i n-échtaib a alt,
tria cheithre créchtaib tríchat."

The Romans killed that splendid king
in their glorious assembly without a clean contest...
by means of thirty-four wounds.


Source: P. Mac Gabhann, 'Flann Mainistrech’s Flaithius Rómán ríge glonn ‘The sovereignty of the Romans was a kingship of feats of prowess’. '

In 'Classical antiquity and medieval Ireland' (2024)
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