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Annals of the Caledonians, Picts and Scots (Volume 1)

Annals of the Caledonians, Picts and Scots (Volume 1)

Ritson, Joseph

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ISBN10: 1459034473
ISBN13: 9781459034471
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.11 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1828. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION. 1. In the year 296, we find the first mention of a nation or people, in Caledonia, or the north of Britain, called the Picti, or Picts. This occurs in a panegyrical oration, delivered in the presence of the emperor Constantius Chlorus, on occasion of his victory over Alectus, a usurper in Britain, at Treves, in Germany, by Eumenius, a professor of rhetoric at Augustodunum, (now Autun, ) in Gaul.* Speaking of the island of Britain as having been Tacitus, according to Pinkerton, is the first who mentions the people of Caledonia, or Piks. This is one of his usual misrepresentations. Tacitus, in fact, mentions the people of Caledonia, and especially the Horestii, but not the Picts; whether they were the same, or the latter were not then in Britain, remains to be determined by other autho. first entered by Caesar, who wrote that he had found a new world, he affects to diminish the value of his conquest, by adding, that, in Caesars age, Britain was provided with no ships for naval war, while Rome flourished not more by land than by sea. Moreover, he says, the nation he attacked was then rude, and the Britons, used only to the Picts and Irish, enemies then half-naked, easily yielded to the Roman arms and ensigns.* They are mentioned a second time by the same orator, in a panegyric pronounced, at the same place, before Constantine, the son of Constantius, in 309 or 310: The day would fail, he says, sooner than my oration, were I to run over all the actions of thy father, even with this brevity. His last expedition did not seek for British trophies, (as is vulgarly believed, ) but, the gods now calling him, he came to the secret bounds of the earth. For neither did he, by so many and such Cgrear] actions, I do not say the woods and marshes of ...

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