A.B. 467. THEODOEtJS FLOmiSHES. 237 Saxons, and will burn you yourself, having shut you up in the town of Genorium. The faces of the Saxons will be red with blood, and after Hengist is slain, Aurelius Ambrosius will be crowned." Accordingly, immediately the very next day Aurelius Ambrosius landed, with hie brother Uther Pendragon, and a very large company of armed men. Therefore, the Britons who had been scattered all about came together, and having convoked an assembly of the kingdom, made Aurelius king. And he, when he was raised to the throne, laboured to repair, as well as he could, the churches that had been levelled to the ground. He was very Uberai in giving presents, diligent in his obedience to the gods, modestly despising Hare and their flatteries, strong in his feet, and still stronger as a rider, and very skilful in managing armies of soldiers. Being distinguished for such virtues as these, he was a man of great celebrity and renown, even among distant nations. A.D. 466. When the Britons were urging Aurelius their king to attack the Saxons, the king objected. For he wished first to pursue Vortigern, and therefore he directed his army towards Wales, and attacked the town of Genorium. And when he arrived before it, remembering the treachery that had been practised against his father and his brother, he said to those who were standing by, "Look, ye noble princes, and see if the walls of this castle can protect Vortigern, who has laid waste a fertile country, destroyed holy churches, and eradicated Christianity almost from sea to sea, and who (and this I think the most grievous thing of all) has betrayed my father and brother. "Now, therefore, Ο most noble princes, strive manfully, and first of all avenge yourselves in hjrn by whom all these things have been done ; and then let us turn our arms against the enemy." They act at once upon his words, and endeavour with all sorts of niachines to batter down the walls. At last, when everything else had failed, they employed Are, and when that was properly kindled, it did not stop till it had consumed the castle and Vortigern. A.D. 467. Theodoras, bishop of the city which had been built by Cyrus, king of Persia, and bore the name of Cyria, a man thoroughly learned in the Holy Scriptures, flourished, as a most brilliant pillar of the church.