Stelle Porro Arabici, qui dolum composuer...; (De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius (1075 - 1100), II, 46) [4202]

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Keywords	Ethnonym: Arabici, [wurzel: Arabic]
ID	4202
Text	De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius (1075 - 1100) Geoffrey Malaterra
Quotation	Porro Arabici, qui dolum composuerant, cum septingentis militibus et duobus millibus peditum de Castro- Johannis digressi, haud procul a Ceramo in abditis locis insidias ordinant, septem tantummodo, ut Brachiem Serloni indicaverat, milites mandantes, qui Ceramo, praeda capta, Serlonem exstrahunt.
Translation	But the Arabs who had prepared this treacherous scheme left Castrogiovanni with seven hundred cavalry and two thousand footmen, and placed them in ambush in places of concealment not far from Cerami. They sent a group of only seven knights, as Brachiem had told Serlo, out to plunder to draw Serlo out of Cerami
Quotation source	II, 46
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