410), casually states that Honorius wrote to Britain, bidding the provincials defend themselves, so that the act of 408 cannot have been final--unless, indeed, as the context of Zosimus suggests and as Gothofredus and others have thought, the name 'Britain' is here a copyist's mistake for 'Bruttii' or some other Italian name.

In any case the 'groans of the Britons' recorded by Gildas show that the island looked to Rome long after 410.

On Constantine see Freeman, _Western Europe in the Fifth Century_, pp.

48, 148 and Bury, _Life of St.Patrick_, p.

329.] Such is, in brief, the positive evidence, archaeological, linguistic, and historical, which illustrates the Romanization of Britain.