[73] Such might be the character of the hundred thousand horse; but the five hundred thousand foot by no means merited such a description.—Trans.
[74] Quis tot principes, tot duces, tot equites, tot pedites, sine rege, sine imperatore dimicante hactenùs audivit, neque siquidem in isto exercitu alter alteri præfuit, alius aliis imperavit.—Baldric, ch. 13.
The reader may keep his attention fixed upon this, as the source of most of their disasters; and in all the history of the Crusaders there is no miracle greater than that an army so constituted could achieve anything.
[75] The Armenian history of Matthew of Edessa is among the manuscripts of the Imperial Library, “Ancien Fonds,” No. 99. We quote it from a translation which M. de St. Martin has been so kind as to communicate to us, and likewise the translation which M. Cerbeid, Armenian professor at the Imperial Library, has made for the purpose of elucidating some manuscripts.
[76] The Pisans, the Genoese, and the greater part of the nations of Italy, after the Greeks, showed themselves most skilful in the construction of machines for war.
[77] These iron hands were nothing more than the machine called the raven by the Romans, which they employed in grappling vessels: they likewise made use of it in sieges.
[78] See William of Tyre, lib. iii.
[79] This valley, formed on the north by the mountain in-Eengni, and watered by a river which runs from west to east, and which is perhaps the Bathis of the ancients, having the villages of Taochanlu and Gourmen on the east, and that of Yen-Euglu on the west;(a) this last is but three marine leagues, or nine miles, from Dorylæum. Albert d’Aix calls this valley Dogorganhi, which appears to be the Oriental name, from which the Latin historians have made that of Gorgoni, which paints in some sort the horrors of this fatal day. Ozellis is apparently the name which the Greeks gave it. We owe these particulars to the learned inquiries of Walckenaer.
(a) See Arrowsmith’s Map of Constantinople and its environs.
[80] Hâc crudelitate atrocissimæ mortis stupefactæ teneræ puellæ et nobilissimæ, vestibus ornari festinabant, se offerentes Turcis, ut saltem amore honestarum formarum accensi et placati, discant captivarum misereri.—Alb. Aq. lib. iii. cap. 4.