Stelle Huius temporibus in era DCCXLVIIII,...; (Chronica Anni 754 Vel Chronica Muzarabica (754 - 2020), Chroniques Anni 754, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §45 (pp. 350-51)) [5666]

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Text Chronica Anni 754 Vel Chronica Muzarabica (754 - 754) Anonymous - History
Quotation Huius temporibus in era DCCXLVIIII, anno imperii eius quarto, Arabum LXLII, Vlit quinto, dum per supra nominatos missos Spania uastaretur et nimium non solum hostili, uerum etiam adiens per Gaditanum fretum, columnas Herculis portendentes et quasi tomi indicio porti aditum demonstrantes uel claes in manu transitum Spanie presagantes uel reserantes, iam olim male dereptam et omnino impie adgressam perditans pentrat, atque Toleto urbem regiam usque inrumpendo, adiacentes regiones pace fraudifica male diuerberans, nonnullos seniores nobiles uiros, qui utqumque remanserant, per Oppam, filium Egiche regis, a toleto fugam arripientes gladio patibuli iugulatet per eius occasionem cunctos ense detruncat [...]
Translation In the times of this man in era 749, in the fourth year of his rule, and the ninety-second of the Arabs, the fifth of Ulit's rule, while Spania was being devastated through those he had sent previously named and indeed was being torn not only through enemy hostility but also internal uproar, Muza himself approached the very wretched land through the Gaditanian strait. The pillars of Hercules were revealing and pointing out the approach of the harbour as though they were the guide of a book or even keys in hand giving advanced knowledge of or even making accessible the crossing of Spania. He penetrated and destroyed the land long seized evilly and attacked with whole impiety. And breaking through all the way up to the royal city of Toletum, he inflicted on the adjacent regions a fraudulent peace while he bound by the sword of the scaffold of the cross several more senior nobles, who had still remained and tried to secure flight from Toletum through Oppa the son of king Egicha [...] (Al-Tamimi, trans., “The Mozarabic Chronicle”, 2019)
Summary Here the chronicle recounts Musa ibn Nusayr’s military campaign in Spain.
Quotation source Chroniques Anni 754, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §45 (pp. 350-51)
Temporal Coverage 711 - 716
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