| Quotation |
Sed cum sine castro, quo se tuerentur a parte illius, incolis essent, castrum quod Melfa dicitur, construxerunt, ubi, cum quingenti tantummodo milites essent, Graeci, qui terrae illi principabantur, maxima multitudine ex Calabria et Apulia sibi coadunata, usque ad sexaginta millia armatorum, ut eos a finibus suis propellerent, versus illos ire coeperunt |
| Translation |
Since they lacked a fortress [castrum] through which they could protect themselves from the inhabitants of that area, they built one, which was called Melfi. There were though only five hundred knights there when the Greeks who ruled that land raised a huge army from Calabria and Apulia, numbering nearly sixty thousand troops, and marched against them, intending to drive them right out of the country |
