Victor ergo civilium bellorum quae ei gravissima occurrerant, in Brittanias defectu pene omnium sociorum trahitur, ubi magnis gravibusque proeliis saepe gestis, receptam partem insulae a ceteris indomitis gentibus, non muro, ut quidam aestimant, sed vallo distinguendam putavit.
After then he had vanquished his civil enemies with which he was very sore assailed, he is drawn into the provinces of Britain by the falling away of nigh all the allies, where, after fighting many great and grievous battles, he thought fit to have a partition made betwixt the part of the island he had recovered and the other wild and savage people, not with building a wall of stone (as some suppose) but with a dyke or rampart.
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