The Deeds of God Through the FranksGuibert, Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy
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The Deeds of God Through the Franks
Guibert, Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy
Crusades -- First, 1096-1099
[114] This single elegiac may contain a scribal error, confusing
Alemannus with Lemanus (Lake Geneva). The epitaph reads: Hic terror
mundi Guiscardus, hic expulit urbe Quem Ligures regem, Roma,
Alemannus habet. Parthus, Arabs, Macedumque phalanx non texit Alexim,
At fuga; sed Venetum, nec fuga, nec pelagus.
[115] A single dactylic hexameter.
[116] In the Latin, *de prima civitate Richardum*, glossed (p.
152) as *Richardum de Principatu, vel Principem*.
[117] Edirne (Turkish) in Bulgaria.
[118] Today, the Vardar.
[119] Ash Wednesday.
[120] Today, Ruskujan.
[121] "outside of the city wall" is my version of *brugo*,
uninhabited land, a field not under cultivation.
[122] Suetoniuis, Caesar 80: Gallias Caesar subegit, Nicomedes
Caesarem.
[123] For whatever facts can be assembled about the siege, see R.
Rogers, *Latin Siege Warfare in the Twelfth Century*, Oxford,
1992, pp. 16-25.
[124] Four dactylic hexameters.
[125] Tomyris dips Cyrus' head in a bag of blood in Herodotus I CCV.
Tibullus (IV.i.143 ff.) alludes to the story, and Valerius Maximus
(IX.x) uses the story to illustrate vengeance.
[126] 99 Adonic verses kata stichon, followed by 13 dactylic
hexameters.
[127] Lamentations II.9
[128] Matthew XX.12.
[129] Two dactylic hexameters.
[130] Three dactylic hexameters.
[131] Fourteen elegiacs.
[132] The *Gesta Francorum* had given the number as 360,000,
Anselm of Ribemont as 260,000. (Brehier 49).
[133] An elegiac couplet.
[134] Deut XXXII.30.
[135] Kilidj-Arslan
[136] one hexameter.
[137] Spikes of cactus, perhaps, or making flour?
[138] Konya (Turkish).
[139] Ereghli (Turkish)
[140] One dactylic hexameter.
[141] Paul.
[142] Adana.
[143] Mamistra (medieval), Mopsuestia (classical), Msis (Armenian),
Misis (Turkish).
[144] Thoros.
[145] Selevgia (West Armenian), Silifke (Turkish).
[146] Horace *Ars Poetica* 180-181.
[147] John III.32
[148] Kayseri
[149] Placentia, or Comana.
[150] Goksun.
[151] Riha, perhaps.
[152] Rouveha, perhaps.
[153] Marash
[154] Oct 21, 1097
[155] Aregh
[156] Sallust, Jugurtha 85.
[157] Aleppo.
[158] Eleven stanzas of sapphics.
[159] Lucan I.135.
[160] i.e., become emaciated
[161] Fourteen heptameters.
[162] Juvenal 6.443.
[163] Fourteen dactylic hexameters."
[164] Seven dactylic hexameters.
[165] February 9.
[166] Two dactylic hexameters.
[167] Rom X.2.
[168] Sultan.
[169] Psalm 81.8.
[170] Psalm 78.6.
[171] Psalm 92.3.
[172] Romans 9.25
[173] I Mac. v.62.
[174] Acts IX.25; II Cor XI.33
[175] Sixteen dactylic hexameters.
[176] One dactylic hexameter.
[177] Scatter them that they may know that no other than you, our
Lord fights for us. Scatter them by your power, and destroy them,
our protector, Lord. (Eccl. xxxvi.1)
[178] Iskenderum.
[179] Aksehir.
[180] Hebrews XII.6.
[181] Or "miracle" in B.
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