A.D. 



c. 274. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The same in English. 



IT is not unlike that the Britons accompanied the 

 Cimbrians and Gaules in those expeditions to Italy 

 and Greece. For besides the common name, it is re- 

 corded in that most ancient British booke called Liber 

 Triadum, (wherein also mention is made of three huge 

 armies that were levied out of Britaine) that a certaine 

 outlandish Captaine gathered from hence a mightie 

 armie ; who having wasted a great part of Europe, at 

 length tooke up his abode (perhaps the Author meaneth 

 in Gallatia) neere unto the sea of Greece. 



Likewise, that the warrelike captaine Britomarus (of 

 whom Florus and Appian doe make report) was him- 

 selfe a Briton, his very name doeth testifie, which 

 signifieth A great Briton. Neither will I wrest that 

 testimonie of Strabo (who reporteth Brennus to have 

 bene a Prause by birth) that I may proove him also to 

 have bene a Briton borne. 



The travaile of Helena. 



Elena Flavia Augusta serenissimi Coeli 

 Britannici Regis Haeres, & unica filia, 

 Magni Constantini C^esaris mater, incom- 

 parabili decore, fide, religione, bonitate, 

 ac magnificentia pia, Eusebio etiam teste, 

 per totum resplenduit orbem : Inter 

 omnes aetatis suae foeminas, nulla invenie- 

 batur ea in liberalibus artibus doctior, nulla in instru- 

 mentis musicis peritior, aut in Unguis nationum copiosior. 

 Innatam habebat ingenii claritudinem, oris facundiam, ac 

 morum ornatissimam compositionem : Hebraice, Grasce, 

 & Latine erudita. Caruerat pater alia sobole (inquit 

 Virumnius) quae Regni solio potiretur. Illam propterea 

 his instrui fecit per optimos prasceptores, ut eo com- 

 modius Regni tractaret negotia. Unde ob incredibilem 

 ejus pulchritudinem, atque alias eximias animi & corporis 

 dotes, Constantius Chlorus Caesar illam duxit in uxorem, 



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