175. Gens inter geminos notissima clauditur amnes,
Armoricana prius veteri cognomine dicta.
Torva, ferox, ventosa, procax, incauta, rebellis;
Inconstans, disparque sibi novitatis amore;
Prodiga verborum, sed non et prodiga facti.
Erricus, Monach. in Vit. St. Germani, 1. v. apud Vales.
Notit. Galliarum, p. 43. Valesius alleges several
testimonies to confirm this character; to which I shall add
the evidence of the presbyter Constantine (A.D. 488), who,
in the Life of St. Germain, calls the Armorican rebels
mobilem et indisciplinatum populum. See the Historians of
France, tom. i. p. 643.