Ob harum ergo infestationem gentium, Brettones legatos Romam cum epistolis mittentes, lacrymosis precibus auxilia flagitabant, subiectionemque continuam dummodo hostis imminens longius arceretur, promittebant.
The Britons then being thus afflicted by the said nations sent their ambassadors with letters unto Rome with lamentable supplications, requiring of them aid and succour, promising them their continual fealty, so that the enemy which threatened them were kept to a farther distance.
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