Stelle Qui Mauia C uirorum ad obsequendum ...; (Chronica Anni 754 Vel Chronica Muzarabica (754 - 2020), Chroniques Anni 754, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §23 (p. 340)) [5652]

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Text Chronica Anni 754 Vel Chronica Muzarabica (754 - 754) Anonymous - History
Quotation Qui Mauia C uirorum ad obsequendum uel Constnantinopolim pergendum filio tradidit. Quem dum per omni uerni temporis [hora] obsidione cingerent et famis hac pestilentie laborem non tolerarent, relicta urbe, plurima oppida capientes honusti preda Damascum et regum, a quo directi fuerant, salutifere post uiennium reuiserunt.
Translation This Mauia handed over 100,000 men to his son to obey and to head to Constantinople. Since they surrounded with siege through the whole springtime and could not bear work with this pestilence of hunger, they abandoned the city even as they had captured very many towns, and burdened with booty they safely returned to Damascus and the king by whom they had been directed after two years. (Al-Tamimi, trans., “The Mozarabic Chronicle”, 2019)
Summary Here the chronicle recounts the siege of Constantinople under Mu’awiya’ son, and the retreat to Damascus.
Quotation source Chroniques Anni 754, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §23 (p. 340)
Temporal Coverage 661 - 680
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