Again, therefore, the wretched remnant, sending to Aetius, a powerful Roman citizen, address him as follow:-"To Aetius, now consul for the third time: the groans of the Britons". And again a little further, thus:-"The barbarians drive us to the sea; the sea throws us back on the barbarians: thus two modes of death await us, we are either slain or drowned". (Gildas)

Again, therefore, the wretched remnant, sending to Aetius, a powerful Roman citizen, address him as follow:-"To Aetius, now consul for the third time: the groans of the Britons". And again a little further, thus:-"The barbarians drive us to the sea; the sea throws us back on the barbarians: thus two modes of death await us, we are either slain or drowned".

Gildas

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