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BRITON CULTURE & CIVILIZATION 185

Briton sense of honour and self-respect with contempt for slanderers seems crystallized in the old motto of the Keiths (i.e. Khatti), the Earl marischals of Scotland :

“Thay say, Qwhat say They ? Thay haif sayd. Let thame say !”’

As regards refinement and education, it is noteworthy that the young Briton wife, Claudia Rufina, of a high Roman official, whose praises Martial sang in the first century A.D., held her own in the brilliant society at Rome :

“Clandia! Rose from the blue-eyed Britons ! Capturer of hearts! How is it thou’rt such a Latin person ? Such graceful form? It makes believe thou'rt Roman ! Thou'rt fit to be Italian or Athenian maid.’

She was traditionally the Claudia who was the friend of St. Paul.2 And not to mention the old tradition of the Chronicle and numerous other independent records that the famous Christian empress and canonized saint, Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great, was a British princess, the daughter of King Col of York, we have the beautiful monument to the dignified Briton lady of the Cat-uallaun ruling clan in North Britain, erected at S. Shields, by her sorrowing husband, Barates the Syrio-Phcenician. (See Fig. 19.)

The intellectual, social and religious culture introduced by Brutus into Britain about the end of the twelfth century B.c. must thus have been of the advanced standard of the Pheenicians of that period. This must have exercised still further an inspiring and uplifting effect upon the lower mentality of the Pictish aborigines, and have tended to alter their habits of life and character somewhat in the direction of those of their civilizing Aryan overlords.

The colonizing activities of the adventurous Briton descendants of Brutus soon manifested themselves again, after they had penetrated the greater part of Britain, in

2“ Clandia ceruleis cum sit Rufina Britannis,”’ ete. Martial, Epigram. It, 53. Her husband was Aulus Pudens.

22 Timothy, iv, 21. Her identity was upheld by Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury; and J. Bale. See C.B.G., I, xciii.