Note 039
From Chapter 59 of the Decline & Fall

William of Tyre (l. xvi. c. 4, 5, 7) describes the loss of Edessa, and the death of Zenghi. The corruption of his name into Sanguin, afforded the Latins a comfortable allusion to his sanguinary character and end,

fit sanguine sanguinolentus.
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