 The preface cites a stanza by Armagh scholar Eochaid ua Flannacain (d. 1005) to assert that Restitutus belonged to the Lombards of "Letha", a place-name which referred to Gaul but was sometimes confused with Latium.In the stanza, Sechnall receives the paternal family name "moccu Baird".Although the presence of Lombards in Italy would be an anachronism, Thomas F. O'Rahilly considers it possible that Secundinus – and perhaps Auxilius, too – came from northern Italy.