Note 085 See the vth crusade, and the siege of Damietta, in Jacobus a Vitriaco, (l. iii. p. 1125 - 1149, in the Gesta Dei of Bongarsius,) an eye- witness, Bernard Thesaurarius, (in Script. Muratori, tom. vii. p. 825 - 846, c. 190 - 207,) a contemporary, and Sanutus, (Secreta Fidel Crucis, l. iii. p. xi. c. 4 - 9,) a diligent compiler; and of the Arabians Abulpharagius, (Dynast. p. 294,) and the Extracts at the end of Joinville, (p. 533, 537, 540, 547, &c.)]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 59