Note 061
Benaud, Reginald, or Arnold de Chatillon, is
celebrated by the Latins in his life and death; but the
circumstances of the latter are more distinctly related by
Bohadin and Abulfeda; and Joinville (Hist. de St. Louis, p.
70) alludes to the practice of Saladin, of never putting to
death a prisoner who had tasted his bread and salt. Some of
the companions of Arnold had been slaughtered, and almost
sacrificed, in a valley of Mecca, ubi sacrificia mactantur,
(Abulfeda, p. 32.)]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 59