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- noun Plural form of
Pict .
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Examples
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The label Picts had presuambly gone out of use and been replaced by Scotland for all practical purposes by 1435, or there'd have been no need to make up an origin legend about an Egyptian princess called Scota.
The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name? Carla 2007
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The earliest surviving document to use the name Picts is a Latin panegyric dedicated to Constantius Caesar and dated to 297 AD, which refers to the “Picti” as customary foes of the “Brittani” (Britons) (Aitchison 2003).
The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name? Carla 2007
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The earliest surviving document to use the name Picts is a Latin panegyric dedicated to Constantius Caesar and dated to 297 AD, which refers to the “Picti” as customary foes of the “Brittani” (Britons) (Aitchison 2003).
Archive 2007-12-01 Carla 2007
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Severus built a wall, from Stirling to Glasgow, to prevent the invasions of the Picts: It is commonly called the Picts 'Wall.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings Jonathan Swift 1706
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The Picts are the heros in every way-defending their people, land, children, and future from the Roman invaders.
Awesome Trailer for Neil Marshall's Roman Epic Centurion! « FirstShowing.net 2010
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The Picts are the people being attacked, invaded, killed, raped, etc.. by the Roman soldiers.
Awesome Trailer for Neil Marshall's Roman Epic Centurion! « FirstShowing.net 2010
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At the other end there is a body of opinion that claims that the Picts were the pre-Celtic pre-Indo-European indigenous inhabitants of Scotland shunted aside by all the successive waves of invaders.
Attacotti Carla 2009
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Bede was writing in 731 in Northumbria, so the Picts were his contemporaries and neighbours.
The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts? Carla 2008
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Bede was writing in 731 in Northumbria, so the Picts were his contemporaries and neighbours.
Archive 2008-02-01 Carla 2008
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It's been argued that the Picts were a confederacy of pre-existing tribes who combined together under the pressure of the Roman threat from the south.
The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name? Carla 2007
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