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Well again thanks for taking part. Howard, Britain exists byname of its inhabitants prior to the Roman Empire! The inhabitants being called by their own Celtic name, which the Greeks of Merseille put in their vocabulary as Britanni (plural of Britannos). These Greeks had trade relations with the Gauls of modern France, who in turn had relations with the Britons, hence the Greeks got to know about us. The Romans, when making an alliance with Merseille probably some time in the second or third century B.C., got to know about the Britanni from these Greeks.
Hence the Latin name Britanni, which is also the plural, comes directly from the Greek, which in turn comes from the Britons of Britain. The name Britannia for our then Country is as much the Greek pronounciation as the Latin.
True, Howard, the Britains lived as tribes, but it may well be that some important tribes had a king, who would have been recognised as such by Rome, obviously on the grounds that he was an ally, or client king. There were many such local of provinces in the Roman Empire in the earlier periods.
May-be Britain was not independent in the time of a certain king Lucius, but at any rate he would haver been a client king. But, please, can I state, to deny that any such British personality existed then, is paramount to denying that anyone ever existed! Don't you think you are going a little far, Sid! After all, Christianity DID come to Britain before the Saxons, was quite wide-spread, and there IS a Roman Light-tower on Eastern Heights, and as Diana rightly points out, we didinherit from Rome the Classis Britannica, which was based in Dovr.
Some facts of history, Sid, can not be a legend, no matter how hard yutry!
Dover is a very good candidate town for being the place were a certain king Lucius built his first Christian church. I think you might be in the position of having to prove the opposite, that we have never had anything to do with the Roman Empire, that Christianity never came to the Britons, that everything is just a colossal myth. But still, thanks for the information, which I also had come across.