I'm the only Gabriel in the whole school, I told my father. "You don't have to whisper it from the tomb, lad. You should thank your mother and me for giving you a handle that people notice. You ought to be pleased, not down in the dumps. Backstreet Gabriels aren't bumped into on every corner, remember.

Cassius... set tyrants over all Syria.

We beg, at armisonant / Pallas's altars, / The blessing and grace / Of the deity holy.

Ireland's sesquilingual situation is thus the inverse of the 'normal' European situation, where English is the prestige language and the native language of lower prestige.