Note 017
Fecit et Chaled plurima in hoc anno praelia, in quibus vicerunt Muslimi, et infidelium immensâ multitudine occisâ spolia infinita et innumera sunt nacti
(Hist. Saracenica, p. 20.)
The Christian annalist slides into the national and compendious term of infidels, and I often adopt (I hope without scandal) this characteristic mode of expression.
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