[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
CHAPTER LIX: The Crusades
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Why must therefore the version and comment suppose the modest and insufficient reckoning of 90,000?
Does not Godfrey of Viterbo (Pantheon, p.xix.in Muratori, tom.
vii.p.
462) exclaim?
-- --Numerum si poscere quaeras, Millia millena militis agmen erat.] [Footnote 14: This extravagant account is given by Albert of Stade, (apud Struvium, p.
414;) my calculation is borrowed from Godfrey of Viterbo, Arnold of Lubeck, apud eundem, and Bernard Thesaur.
(c.
169, p.
804.) The original writers are silent.
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