Quorum tempore Carausius quidam, genere quidem infimus, sed consilio et manu promptus, cum ad observanda oceani litora quae tunc Franci et Saxones infestabant, positus, plus in perniciem quam in profectum reipublicae ageret, ereptam praedonibus praedam nulla ex parte restituendo dominis, sed sibi soli vindicando; accendens suspicionem quia ipsos quoque hostes ad incursandos fines artifici negligentia permitteret.
In whose time one Carausius, a man of low degree in birth but valiant in arms and politic in counsel, was appointed to ward the sea-coast against the Franks and the Saxons, which then with continual robberies much wasted that country, but he so behaved himself that he did more hurt than advantage to the commonwealth; for such pillage as he had wrested from the robbers he did not in any part restore it to the right owners, but reserved to himself alone; whereby he kindled suspicion that by not paying heed to his charge he even suffered the enemy to assail the boundaries at their pleasure.
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