omewhere in Tacitus, or Grotius, Subjectos
habent tanquam suos, viles tanquam alienos. Some Greek officers ravished
the wife, and murdered the child, of their Syrian landlord; and Manuel
smiled at his undutiful complaint.]

[Footnote 74: See Reland, Palestin. tom. i. p. 272, 283, tom. ii. p.
773, 775. This learned professor was equal to the task of describing
the Holy Land, since he was alike conversant with Greek and Latin, with
Hebrew and Arabian literature. The Yermuk, or Hieromax, is noticed by
Cellarius (Geograph. Antiq. tom. ii. p. 392) and D'Anville, (Geographie
Ancienne, tom. ii. p. 185.) The Arabs, and even Abulfeda himself, do not
seem to recognize the scene of their victory.]

[Footnote 7411: Compare Price, p. 79. The army of the Romans is swoller
to 400,000 men of which 70,000 perished.--M.]

[Footnote 75: These women were of the tribe of the Hamyarites, who
derived their origin from the ancient Amalekites. Their females were
accustomed to ride on horseback, and to fight like the Amazons of old,
(Ockley, vol. i. p. 67.)]

[Footnote 76: We killed of them, says Abu Obeidah to the caliph, one
hundred and fifty thousand, and made prisoners forty thousand, (Ockley
vol. i. p. 241.) As I cannot doubt his veracity, nor believe his
computation, I must suspect that the Arabic historians indulge
themselves in the practice of comparing speeches and letters for their
heroes.]

[Footnote 77: After deploring the sins of the Christians, Theophanes,
adds, (Chronograph. p. 276,) does he mean Aiznadin? His account is brief
and obscure, but he accuses the numbers of the enemy, the adverse wind,
and the cloud of dust. (Chronograph. p. 280.)]

[Footnote 78: See Abulfeda, (Annal. Moslem. p. 70, 71,) who transcribes
the poetical complaint of Jabalah himself, and some panegyrical strains
of an Arabian poet, to whom the chief of Gassan sent from Constantinople
a gift of five hundred pieces of gold by the hands of the ambassador of
Omar.]

After the battle of Yermuk, the Roman army no longer appeared in the
field; and the Saracens might securely choose, among the fortified towns
of Syria, the first object of their attack. They consulted the caliph
whether they should march to Caesarea or Jerusalem; and the advice of
Ali determined the immediate siege of the latter. To a profane eye,
Jerusalem was the first or second capital of Palestine; but after Mecca
and Medina, it was revered and visited by the devout Moslems, as the
temp