s flight; and after wandering
two days and as many nights in the mountains, he found some repose,
of body, though not of mind, in the walls of Lychnidus. The victorious
Robert reproached the tardy and feeble pursuit which had suffered the
escape of so illustrious a prize: but he consoled his disappointment by
the trophies and standards of the field, the wealth and luxury of the
Byzantine camp, and the glory of defeating an army five times more
numerous than his own. A multitude of Italians had been the victims
of their own fears; but only thirty of his knights were slain in
this memorable day. In the Roman host, the loss of Greeks, Turks, and
English, amounted to five or six thousand: [76] the plain of Durazzo was
stained with noble and royal blood; and the end of the impostor Michael
was more honorable than his life.

[Footnote 73: It is very properly translated by the President Cousin,
(Hist. de Constantinople, tom. iv. p. 131, in 12mo.,) qui combattoit
comme une Pallas, quoiqu'elle ne fut pas aussi savante que celle
d'Athenes. The Grecian goddess was composed of two discordant
characters, of Neith, the workwoman of Sais in Egypt, and of a virgin
Amazon of the Tritonian lake in Libya, (Banier, Mythologie, tom. iv. p.
1-31, in 12mo.)]

[Footnote 74: Anna Comnena (l. iv. p. 116) admires, with some degree of
terror, her masculine virtues. They were more familiar to the Latins and
though the Apulian (l. iv. p. 273) mentions her presence and her wound,
he represents her as far less intrepid.

Uxor in hoc bello Roberti forte sagitta

Quadam laesa fuit: quo vulnere territa nullam.

Dum sperabat opem, se poene subegerat hosti.

The last is an unlucky word for a female prisoner.]

[Footnote 75: (Anna, l. v. p. 133;) and elsewhere, (p. 140.) The
pedantry of the princess in the choice of classic appellations
encouraged Ducange to apply to his countrymen the characters of the
ancient Gauls.]

[Footnote 76: Lupus Protospata (tom. iii. p. 45) says 6000: William the
Apulian more than 5000, (l. iv. p. 273.) Their modesty is singular and
laudable: they might with so little trouble have slain two or three
myriads of schismatics and infidels!]

It is more than probable that Guiscard was not afflicted by the loss of
a costly pageant, which had merited only the contempt and derision of
the Greeks. After their defeat, they still persevered in the defence
of Durazzo; and a Venetian commander supplied the place of G