Note 059
From Chapter 59 of the Decline & Fall

Templarii ut apes bombabant et Hospitalarii ut venti stridebant, et barones se exitio offerebant, et Turcopuli (the Christian light troops) semet ipsi in ignem injiciebant (Ispahani de Expugnatione Kudsitica, p. 18, apud Schultens);

a specimen of Arabian eloquence, somewhat different from the style of Xenophon!

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