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[5] It will, however, be in place to say, that at 1 that time the Picts, divided into two tribes, called Dicalydones 2 and Verturiones, as well as the Attacotti, a warlike race of men, and the Scots, were ranging widely and causing great devastation; while the Gallic regions, 3 wherever anyone could break in by land or by sea, were harassed by the Franks and their neighbours, the Saxons, with cruel robbery, fire, and the murder of all who were taken prisoners.

1 368 A.D.

2 Called Caledonians by Tacitus, Dio, and others.

3 The coast of Gaul opposite Britain.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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