Ad hunc pauperculae Brettonum reliquiae mittunt epistolam, cuius hoc principium est: Aetio ter consuli gemitus Brittanorum: et in processu epistolae, ita suas calamitates explicant: Repellunt barbari ad mare, repellit mare ad barbaros; inter haec oriuntur duo genera funerum, aut iugulamur, aut mergimur.
The wretched leaving of the Britons directed unto him a letter whereof this was the beginning: to Aetius, thrice consul, the groan of the Britons: and in the process of this epistle they thus setteth forth their pitiful estate: the barbarous enemy driveth us upon the sea, the sea again upon the enemy; between these twain riseth two manner of deaths, either we are killed or drowned.
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