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himself was being decapitated by two of his foes, whom MacCecht slew, and then poured the water into Conaire's mouth. The head thanked him for his act, and thus perished Conaire, through no fault of his own, victim of fate and of a god's vengeance.¹⁸ The story is as tragic as a Greek drama, if its art is less consummate.