A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans

HOMAN AHJUCATION.
in the year three hundred and sixty-seven, to repel this aggression and
to repair the great ravages committed by the invaders. Having been
successful in clearing the whole country between the walls, he made it
the fifth province in Britain, to which Valentinian gave the name of
Vale?itia in honour of Valens, whom he had associated with him in
the empire. The successes of Theodosius insured a peaceful pause of
nearly thirty years, but in three himdred and ninety-eight the Cale-
donians or Picts and Scots again renewed their attacks which they
continued from time to time. At length, in the year four hundred
and forty-six, during the Consulate of ^stius, the Romans, unable any
longer to keep their possessions in North Britain, intimated to the Pro-
vincials that they could give them no further assistance in resisting
the Scots and Picts, abdicated the government, and left them to pro-
tect themselves.
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