[418] Some Arabic verses of a Christian poet of the eleventh century are still extant, which exhibit considerable skill in handling the language and metre. (Von Schack, II. 95.) [419] Abbot Samson gives us specimens of the bad Latin written by some of the ecclesiastics of his time, e.g. “Cum contempti essemus simplicitas christiana,” but his correction is hardly much better, “contenti essemus simplicitati christianæ” (pp. 404, 406). [420] Alvar: Indic. Lum., § 35 (pp. 554–6). [421] Von Schack, vol. ii. p. 96. [422] Orderic Vitalis, p. 928. [423] Alvar: Ind. Lum., § 29. “Compositionem verborum, et preces omnium eius membrorum quotidie pro eo eleganti facundia, et venusto confectas eloquio, nos hodie per eorum volumina et oculis legimus et plerumque miramur.” (Migne: Patr. Lat., tome cxxi. p. 546.) [424] Enhueber, § 26, p. 353. [425] Helfferich, p. 88. [426] “Postmodum transgressus legem Dei, fugiens ad paganos consentaneos, periuratus effectus est.” Frobenii dissertatio de hæresi Elipandi et Felicis, § xxiv. (Migne: Patr. Lat., tome ci. p. 313.) [427] Pseudo-Luitprandi Chronicon, § 341 (p. 1115). “Basilius Toletanum concilium contrahit; quo providetur, ne Christiani detrimentum acciperent convictu Saracenorum.” [428] There is little record of such, but they seem referred to in the following sentences of Eulogius (Liber Apologeticus Martyrum, § 20), on Muḥammad: “Cuius quidem erroris insaniam, prædicationis deliramenta, et impiæ novitatis præcepta quisquis catholicorum cognoscere cupit, evidentius ab eiusdem sectæ cultoribus perscrutando advertet. Quoniam sacrum se quidpiam tenere et credere autumantes, non modo privatis, sed apertis vocibus vatis sui dogmata prædicant.” (Migne: Patr. Lat., tome cxv. p. 862.) [429] Dozy (2), tome ii. p. 53. [430] Lea, The Moriscos, pp. 17, 18. [431] Samson, p. 379. [432] Eulogius: Mem. Sanct. Pref., § 2. (Migne, tom. cxv. p. 737.) [433] Id. c. xiii. (p. 794.) [434] The number of the martyrs is said not to have exceeded forty. (W. H. Prescott: History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, vol. i. p. 342, n.) (London, 1846.) [435] Dozy (2), tome ii. pp. 161–2. [436] Eulogius: Mem. Sanct. I, iii. c. vii. (p. 805). “Pro eo quod nullus sapiens, nemo urbanus, nullusque procerum Christianorum huiusce modi rem perpetrasset, idcirco non debere universos perimere asserebant, quos non præit personalis dux ad prælium.” [437] Alvar: Ind. Lum., § 14. “Nonne ipsi qui videbantur columnæ, qui putabantur Ecclesiæ petræ, qui credebantur electi, nullo cogente, nemine provocante, iudicem adierunt, et in præsentia Cynicorum, imo Epicureorum, Dei martyres infamaverunt? Nonne pastores Christi, doctores Ecclesiæ, episcopi, abbates, presbyteri, proceres et magnati, hæreticos eos esse publice clamaverunt? et publica professione sine desquisitione, absque interrogatione, quæ nec imminente mortis sententia erant dicenda, spontanea voluntate, et libero mentis arbitrio, protulerunt?” (Migne: tom. cxxi. p. 529.)