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Dageus is pronounced "Dey-gis" with a hard "g."

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Tuatha Dé Danaan is pronounced "tua day dhanna."

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Chloe makes reference (pp. 100) to Kairos. The ancient Greeks and Romans did not have a personification of time per se, they depicted aspects of time in two ways: the god Kairos, who symbolized "the brief, decisive moment during which one's fortunes might change", and the god Phanes, who symbolized "the divine principle of the eternal, in which time itself is the source of all the world's creative forces." Kairos can be loosely translated as a moment of destiny; a culmination of events that afford an opportunity that will never happen again.

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"Fé th fiada means (fé th, mist, fog) (fiada, lord, master, possessor): a magic mist or fog that renders those under it invisible...also known as ceó druidecta or ceo draiodheachte (druid's fog). The fé th fiada is thought to be a power given to the druids and Tuatha Dé Danaan by Manannàn mac Lir after their defeat by the Milesians."
—Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, James MacKillop, Oxford University Press

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Aoibheal or Aibell means radiance, spark, fire.

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Chloe's fascination with antiquities began when she saw a page from the Book of Durrow (written in Irish half-uncial script, origin debated, dated to the second half of the seventh century) and a page from a royal copy of Livy's History of Rome (which once belonged to Charles V King of France).

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The word "manuscript" means "written by hand."

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The earliest known "books" or their equivalents are the inscribed clay tablets of Mesopotamia and the papyrus rolls of Egypt, dated to the early third millennium B.C..

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Katherine O'Malley mentions Priapus on pp. 7 of The Dark Highlander. Priapus was one of the minor fertility gods in the pantheon of Imperial Rome, his most outstanding characteristic being a huge, erect phallus. This fertility god inspired a host of epigrammatic poems written by an unknown poet (or poets, some even contend Ovid as author) in ancient Rome. One of the more amusing is a verse in which the author can't resist a getting a bit of press for himself:

Though, Priapus, you're stuck with a well-stiffened cock,
though our poet considers it easy to mock,
cancel your blushes, for he's just as heavily laden,
who scribbles the verses the insults about you are made in.