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| ID |
4123 |
| Text |
De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius (1075 - 1100) Geoffrey Malaterra |
| Quotation |
Timebant denique Graeci, ne si ex nostrae gentis uxore haeredes procreati in palatio subcrescerent, occasio liberius illuc accedendi nostrae
genti daretur; et gens, deliciis at voluptatibus, potiusquam belli studiis ex more dedita, nostrorum strenuitate subjugata conculcaretur. |
| Translation |
The Greeks however were afraid that if heirs who were born from a wife from our race were to grow up in the
palace, then an opportunity would be created for our people to come there freely; and a people who
were customarily devoted to luxuries and self-indulgence rather than to warlike exercises would be
trampled under foot by the valour [strenuitas] of our men and made their subjects |
| Quotation source |
III, 13 |
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