Then, as Eumenius tells us, skilled artisans abounded in Britain far more than in Gaul, and were fetched from the island to build public and private edifices as far south as Autun.[2] Then also, and, indeed, as late as 360, British corn was largely exported to the Rhine Valley,[3] and British cloth earned a notice in the eastern Edict of Diocletian.[4] The province at that time was a prosperous and civilized region, where Latin speech and culture might be expected to prevail widely.
[Footnote 1: Mommsen, _Roem.

Gesch._, v.

97, 106, and Ausonius, _passim_.] [Footnote 2: Eumenius, _Paneg.

Constantio Caesari_, 21 _civitas Aeduorum ...

plurimos quibus illae provinciae_ (Britain) _redundabant accepit artifices, et nunc exstructione veterum domorum et refectione operum publicorum et templorum instauratione consurgit_.] [Footnote 3: Ammianus, xviii.