Note 074
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 sagittâ
Quâdam laesa fuit:quo vulnere territa nullam.
Dum sperabat opem, se poene subegerat hosti.
The last is an unlucky word for a female prisoner.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 56