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XHE BRITONS ASSERTED. liy<br />

HAVING<br />

IV,<br />

now advanced his fix arguments<br />

againft Bede, <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon proceeds<br />

to overthrow <strong>the</strong> cited authorities <strong>of</strong> foreign wri-<br />

terso And Claudian comes firft.<br />

P. 1 1 1— 1 1 2. '* That poet, in his panegyric<br />

^« on <strong>The</strong>od<strong>of</strong>ius, has <strong>the</strong> following lines,<br />

f* Quid rigor ceternus coeli ; quid fidera pr<strong>of</strong>unt,<br />

Ignotumque Fretum ? Maduerunt Saxone fufo<br />

f^<br />

" Orcades : incaluit Piftorum fanguine Thule :<br />

Scottorum cumulos flevit glacialis lerne.<br />

f*<br />

*' But we may venture to affirm, that <strong>the</strong>re is<br />

^* nothing in this paffage conclufive in favour <strong>of</strong><br />

*' <strong>the</strong> old Milefian tale [<strong>the</strong> extraftion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scots<br />

" from Ireland].— It is idle—to fearch for faci:<br />

" in <strong>the</strong> hyperboles <strong>of</strong> poetry ; Marcellinus,<br />

" though particularly fond <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>od<strong>of</strong>ius, has<br />

" not recorded <strong>the</strong>fe prodigies <strong>of</strong> valour : even<br />

*' Latinus Pacatius, though a Panegyrifl, fays no<br />

'* raore^ than that <strong>the</strong> Scot was driven back to<br />

' "his

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