[5] In 1262, when a Venetian squadron was taken by the Greek fleet in alliance with the Genoese, the whole of the survivors of the captive crews were _blinded_ by order of Palaeologus. (_Roman._ ii. 272.) [6] See pp. 16, 41, and Plan of Ayas at beginning of Bk. I. [7] See _Archivio Storico Italiano_, Appendice, tom. iv. [8] _Niente ne resta a prender Se no li corpi de li legni: Preixi som senza difender; De bruxar som tute degni!_ * * * * _Como li fom aproximai Queli si levan lantor Como leon descaenai Tuti criando_ “Alor! Alor!” This _Alor! Alor!_ (“Up, Boys, and at ’em”), or something similar, appears to have been the usual war-cry of both parties. So a trumpet-like poem of the Troubadour warrior Bertram de Born, whom Dante found in such evil plight below (xxviii. 118 _seqq._), in which he sings with extraordinary spirit the joys of war:— “=Ie us dic que tan no m’a sabor Manjars, ni beure, ni dormir, Cum a quant aug cridar,= ALOR! =D’ambas la partz; et aug agnir Cavals voits per l’ombratge=....” “I tell you a zest far before Aught of slumber, or drink, or of food, I snatch when the shouts of ALOR Ring from both sides: and out of the wood Comes the neighing of steeds dimly seen....” In a galley fight at Tyre in 1258, according to a Latin narrative, the Genoese shout “Ad arma, ad arma! _ad ipsos, ad ipsos!_” The cry of the Venetians before engaging the Greeks is represented by Martino da Canale, in his old French, as “_or à yaus! or à yaus!_” that of the Genoese on another occasion as _Aur! Aur!_ and this last is the shout of the Catalans also in Ramon de Muntaner. (_Villemain, Litt. du Moyen Age_, i. 99; _Archiv. Stor. Ital._ viii. 364, 506; _Pertz, Script._ xviii. 239; _Muntaner_, 269, 287.) Recently in a Sicilian newspaper, narrating an act of gallant and successful reprisal (only too rare) by country folk on a body of the brigands who are such a scourge to parts of the island, I read that the honest men in charging the villains raised a shout of “_Ad iddi! Ad iddi!_” [9] A phrase curiously identical, with a similar sequence, is attributed to an Austrian General at the battle of Skalitz in 1866. (_Stoffel’s Letters._) [10] _E no me posso aregordar Dalcuno romanzo vertadê Donde oyse uncha cointar Alcun triumfo si sobré!_ [11] _Stella_ in _Muratori_, xvii. 984. [12] _Dandulo_, Ibid. xii. 404–405. [13] _Or entram con gran vigor, En De sperando aver triumpho, Queli zerchando inter lo Gorfo Chi menazeram zercha lor!_ And in the next verse note the pure Scotch use of the word _bra_:—