Note 192 — ON THE CAT-STANE, KIRKLISTON.
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Ammiani Marcellini Historiæ, lib. xxviii. c. 1. The poet Claudian, perhaps with the full liberty of a poet, sings of Theodosius' forces in this war having pursued the Saxons to the very Orkneys:—
----maduerunt Saxone fuso Orcades.