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| ID |
4164 |
| Text |
De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius (1075 - 1100) Geoffrey Malaterra |
| Quotation |
Dux de nanciscenda urbe certus, scalas ad transcendendos muros ex ligno componit; Venetianus autem in adjutorium ducis ex funibus perplexas, advenientibus hostibus, de muro dependentes porrigit. Et quia sicuti scriptum est: Nullus perniciosior hostis est ad nocendum, quam familiaris inimicus. |
| Translation |
Now certain of obtaining the city, the duke made wooden ladders to climb the walls, while to assist him the Venetian placed rope ladders on the wall for the enemy scaling party. And since as is written in Scripture: 'No enemy is more dangerous to the wicked than the enemy within', the opportunity to break into the city was given to the enemy by the man who ought to have been its defender |
| Quotation source |
III, 28 |
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