Note 108 — Chapter III · BRITAIN AFTER THE ROMANS.
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In ea prius habitabant quatuor et gentes; Scoti, Picti, atque Saxones, Britones.—Nennius, Hist. Brit. 2. Omnes nationes et provincias Britanniæ, quæ in quatuor linguas, id est, Brettonum, Pictorum, Scottorum, et Anglorum divisae sunt, in ditione accepit.—Bede, Ec. Hist. iii. c. vi. Gildas terms the latter people simply Saxones. Bede, in narrating their settlement, ‘Gens Anglorum sive Saxonum.’