14/38 D'Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale, p. 691, and the particular articles of the Ommiades.] In the victorious days of the Roman republic, it had been the aim of the senate to confine their councils and legions to a single war, and completely to suppress a first enemy before they provoked the hostilities of a second. These timid maxims of policy were disdained by the magnanimity or enthusiasm of the Arabian caliphs. |