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    "verified_text": "maecianus, lucius volusius (2nd cent.) roman jurist, was the tutor in law of the emperor marcus aurelius. when governor of alexandria he was slain by the soldiers, as having participated in the rebellion of avidius cassius (175). maecianus was the author of works on trusts (_fideicommissa_), on the _judicia publica_, and of a collection of the rhodian laws relating to maritime affairs. his treatise on numerical divisions, weights and measures (_distributio_) is extant, with the exception of the concluding portion. see capitolinus, _antoninus_, 3; vulcacius gallicanus, _avidius cassius_, 7; edition of the metrological work by f. hultsch in _metrologicorum scriptorum reliquiae,_ ii. (1866); mommsen in _abhandlungen der sachsischen gesellschaft der wissenschaften_, iii. (1853). maelduin (or maeldune), voyage of (_imram maeleduin_), an early irish romance. the text exists in an 11th-century redaction, by a certain aed the fair, described as the \"chief sage of ireland,\" but it may be gathered from internal evidence that the tale itself dates back to the 8th century. it belongs to the group of irish romance, the _navigations_ (_imrama_), the common type of which was probably imitated from the classical tales of the wanderings of jason, of ulysses and of aeneas. maelduin, the foster-son of an irish queen, learnt on reaching manhood that he was the son of a nun, and that his father, ailill of the edge of battle, had been slain by a marauder from leix. he set sail to seek his father's murderer, taking with him, in accordance with the instructions of a sorcerer, seventeen men. his three foster-brothers swam after him, and were taken on board. this increase of the fateful number caused maelduin's vengeance to be deferred for three years and seven months, until the last of the intruders had perished. the travellers visited many strange islands, and met with a long series of adventures, some of which are familiar from other sources. the _voyage of st brendan_ (q.v.) has very close similarities with the _maelduin_, of which it is possibly a clerical imitation, with the important addition of the whale-island episode, which it has in common with \"sindbad the sailor.\" _imram curaig mailduin_ is preserved, in each case imperfectly, in the _lebor na h uidre_, a ms. in the royal irish academy, dublin; and in the _yellow book of lecan_, ms. h. 216 in the trinity college library, dublin; fragments are in harleian ms. 5280 and egerton ms. 1782 in the british museum. there are translations by patrick joyce, _old celtic romances_ (1879), by whitley stokes (a more critical version, printed together with the text) in _revue celtique_, vols. ix. and x. (1888-1889). see h. zimmer, \"brendan's meerfahrt\" in _zeitschrift fur deutsches altertum_, vol. xxxiii. (1889). tennyson's _voyage of maeldune_, suggested by the irish romance, borrows little more than its framework.",
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