Quamobrem a Maximiano iussus occidi, purpuram sumpsit ac Brittanias occupavit; quibus sibi per septem annos fortissime vindicatis ac retentis, tandem fraude Allecti socii sui interfectus est.
Whereupon being commanded to be put to death of Maximian, he took upon him the princely authority and usurped the governance of the British provinces; which, after he had taken and kept seven years right valiantly, at length by treason of his fellow Allectus he was slain.
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