There is a very interesting paper in the _Ulster Archaeological Journal_, vol.vii.

p.
334, on the remarkable correspondence of Irish, Greek, and Oriental legends, where the tale of Labhradh Loinseach is compared with that of Midas.

Both had asses' ears, and both were victims to the loquacious propensities of their barbers.
[151] _Etruscans_ .-- See _Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria_, vol i p.
295, where the bas-reliefs are described which represent the _praeficae_, or hired mourners, wailing over the corpse.
[152] _Laid down_ .-- Law, Saxon, _lagu, lah_; from _lecgan_==Goth.
_lagjan_, to lay, to place; Gael.

_lagh_, a law; _leag_, to lie down; Latin, _lex_, from Gr.

_lego_, to lay.
[153] _It_ .-- Four Masters, vol.i p.133.The Seanchus Mor was sometimes called _Cain Phadruig_, or Patrick's Law.
[154] _Seanchus_ .-- From the old Celtic root _sen_, old, which has direct cognates, not merely in the Indo-European, but also in the Semitic; Arabic, _sen_, old, ancient--_sunnah_, institution, regulation; Persian, _san_, law, right; _sanna_, Phoenicibus idem fuit quod Arabibus _summa_, lex, doctrina jux canonicum .-- Bochart, _Geo.Sae_.1.ii.c.