[363] Stokes, Tripartite, Introduction, p. cxxxvii. He refers to Gregory of Tours, Hist. Franc. x. 28, in uico Nemptudoro. Skene (Celtic Scotland, ii. 436, n.) identifies Nemthur with Neutur in the Black Book of Caermarthen (Four Ancient Books of Wales, vol. ii. p. 3).
[364] It is perhaps hardly necessary to observe that Ammianus when he says that Theodosius instaurabat urbes does not refer to Valentia (which he has not yet mentioned) in particular, but to Britain in general.
[365] In A.D. 383 he was sent on an embassy to the Persians (whom Keller calls “Parthians,” p. 15), and married Serena soon after (384 or 385). In A.D. 386 he was engaged in the campaign with the Gruthungi.
[366] This seems to me a just remark of Mr. Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders, vol. i. (2nd ed.), p. 716.
[367] “Tyrants of Britain, Gaul, and Spain,” Eng. Hist. Review, 1886, i. 55, note 3. This is the chief study on the subject (republished in Western Europe in the Fifth Century, 1905, chaps. ii., iii.). Cp. App. 20 to Bury’s edition of Gibbon, vol. iii.
[368] II. k. Jan. ed. Mommsen, p. 465.
[369] Prosper’s notice, sub ann. 407, agrees with the implication in Olympiodorus.
[370] Preface to edition of Gildas (Chron. Min. iii. 1), p. 7.
[371] The Picts are described as a gens transmarina (the Picts of Dalaradia?).
[372] Ann. Ult. sub a. 461.