94. Claudian (i. Cons. Stil. 1. ii. 250). It is supposed
that the Scots of Ireland invaded by sea the whole western
coast of Britain; and some slight credit may be given even
to Nennius and the Irish traditions (Carte's Hist. of
England, vol. i. p. 169). Whitaker's Genuine History of the
Britons, p. 199 The sixty-six Lives of St. Patrick, which
were extant in the ninth century, must have contained a many
thousand lies; yet we may believe that, in one of these
Irish inroads, the future apostle was led away captive
(Usher, Antiquit. Eccles. Britann. p. 431; and Tillemont,
Mem. Eccles. tom. xvi. p. 456, 782, etc.).