169.) Whitaker's Genuine History of the Britons, p.199.The sixty-six lives of St.
Patrick, which were extant in the ninth century, must have contained as many thousand lies; yet we may believe, that, in one of these Irish inroads the future apostle was led away captive, (Usher, Antiquit.
Eccles Britann.p.431, and Tillemont, Mem.Eccles.tom.xvi.p.

45 782, &c.)] [Footnote 95: The British usurpers are taken from Zosimus, (l.vi.

p.
371-375,) Orosius, (l.vii.c.40, p.

576, 577,) Olympiodorus, (apud Photium, p.

180, 181,) the ecclesiastical historians, and the Chronicles.