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One of his attendants had carried the tidings; wild Keltic men and women had come down for one last sight of their Fearnagh MacFearccadorigh, as they called him by his true Gaulish name passionately kissing his hands and the hem of his mantle, beating their breasts amid howls of lamentation, and throwing themselves in his path, as, with the high spirit which could not brook to be fetched as a criminal, he made his way to the gate.
The Arvernii seem to have been Gael rather than Cymri, and the mountain chief, Titus Julius Verronax, as the Romans rendered his name of Fearnagh, was of the purest descent. He had thick, wavy chestnut hair, not cut so short as that of the Romans, though kept with the same care.
Set him before me that I may strike him dead with one blow!" Lucius crossed himself, looked upwards, and was stepping forwards, when Verronax with a shout of 'Hold! leapt into the midst, full before the avenger's uplifted weapon, crying "Slay me, old man! It was I who killed thy son, I, Fearnagh the Arvernian!" "Ho!" said Odo. "Give me thine hand. Let me feel thee. Yea, these be sinews!
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