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[105] Guibert here rejects the perhaps more pathetic scene in the *Gesta Francorum* (Brehier 8): *alii mingebant in pugillo alterius et bibebant*.
[106] Eight elegiacs.
[107] Ten elegiacs.
[108] Sometimes given the epithet, *sine habere*, "the Penniless."
[109] Gemlik, now abandoned.
[110] Iznick, on the lake of the same name.
[111] Twelve Asclepiadeans. At this point, the *Gest Francorum*
gives only *quemdam sacerdotem missam celebrantem, quem statim super altare martirizaverunt*, "a priest celebrating ma.s.s, whom they immediately martyred on the altar."
[112] Two dactyls, the second line borrowed from Horace, Sat I.97.
[113] Durazzo.
[114] This single elegiac may contain a scribal error, confusing Alemannus with Lema.n.u.s (Lake Geneva). The epitaph reads: Hic terror mundi Guiscardus, hic expulit urbe Quem Ligures regem, Roma, Alemannus habet. Parthus, Arabs, Macedumque phalanx non texit Alexim, At fuga; sed Venetum, nec fuga, nec pelagus.
[115] A single dactylic hexameter.
[116] In the Latin, *de prima civitate Richardum*, glossed (p.
152) as *Richardum de Princ.i.p.atu, vel Principem*.
[117] Edirne (Turkish) in Bulgaria.
[118] Today, the Vardar.
[119] Ash Wednesday.
[120] Today, Ruskujan.
[121] "outside of the city wall" is my version of *brugo*, uninhabited land, a field not under cultivation.
[122] Suetoniuis, Caesar 80: Gallias Caesar subegit, Nicomedes Caesarem.
[123] For whatever facts can be a.s.sembled about the siege, see R.
Rogers, *Latin Siege Warfare in the Twelfth Century*, Oxford, 1992, pp. 16-25.
[124] Four dactylic hexameters.
[125] Tomyris dips Cyrus' head in a bag of blood in Herodotus I CCV.
Tibullus (IV.i.143 ff.) alludes to the story, and Valerius Maximus (IX.x) uses the story to ill.u.s.trate vengeance.
[126] 99 Adonic verses kata stichon, followed by 13 dactylic hexameters.
[127] Lamentations II.9
[128] Matthew XX.12.
[129] Two dactylic hexameters.
[130] Three dactylic hexameters.
[131] Fourteen elegiacs.
[132] The *Gesta Francorum* had given the number as 360,000, Anselm of Ribemont as 260,000. (Brehier 49).
[133] An elegiac couplet.
[134] Deut x.x.xII.30.
[135] Kilidj-Arslan
[136] one hexameter.
[137] Spikes of cactus, perhaps, or making flour?
[138] Konya (Turkish).
[139] Ereghli (Turkish)
[140] One dactylic hexameter.
[141] Paul.
[142] Adana.
[143] Mamistra (medieval), Mopsuestia (cla.s.sical), Msis (Armenian), Misis (Turkish).
[144] Thoros.
[145] Selevgia (West Armenian), Silifke (Turkish).
[146] Horace *Ars Poetica* 180-181.
[147] John III.32
[148] Kayseri
[149] Placentia, or Comana.
[150] Goksun.
[151] Riha, perhaps.
[152] Rouveha, perhaps.
