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Rather surprised to read this (in an article mostly about , who translated the bible into Latin):

"He never forgot his first sight of the Attacotti, uncouth natives of Ireland, who sometimes ate human flesh, and had a taste for the buttock-meat of stolen livestock." 😳

antigonejournal.com/2021/10/sa

No wonder then, that when Jermone made the first mention of the Irish in a vaguely philosophical context, it was as an insult (against ).
irishphilosophy.com/2013/04/12

#jerome #pelagius #irishphilosophy

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