[48] An area in northeast Persia, but used as a general term for the Near East by the Western chroniclers of the First Crusade.
[49] Gnaeus Trogus Pompeius, a contemporary of Livy, wrote 44 books, of which only an epitome by Justin survives.
[50] I Kings xii.10; II Chronicles x.10.
[51] Translation by J.D. Duff, *Lucan*, Cambridge, 1969. "of one's own blood," is the more literal translation.
[52] Lucan I. 8,9,12.
[53] Albert of Aix uses the same comparison several times within one paragraph to describe the joys of the Crusaders about to attack Ascalon: they are *tanquam ad convivium pergentes laetati*, then the pagan prefect of Ramna, noticing that the Christians are singing and rejoicing, *tanquam ad epulas omnium deliciarum invitati essent*, remarks: Miror, et sufficienter mirari nequeo unde populus hic in tanta laetitia et voce exultationis glorietur, quasi ad convivium iturus. (RHC IV.492)
[54] That is, children.
[55] Proverbs xxx.27.
[56] The first printed edition offers *genuinae*, where MS A offers *geminae*.
[57] That is, Helena.