Hist.), pp.

9-10.
Gildas is, however, rather more Celtic in tone than Mommsen seems to allow.

Such a phrase as _ita ut non Britannia sed Romania censeretur_ implies a consciousness of contrast between Briton and Roman.

Freeman (_Western Europe_, p.

155) puts the case too strongly the other way.] [Footnote 2: Magnus Maximus, as the opponent of Theodosius, seems to have been damned by the Church writers.