The corruption of his name into _Sanguin_, afforded the Latins a comfortable allusion to his _sanguinary_ character and end, fit sanguine sanguinolentus.] [Footnote 391: On Noureddin's conquest of Damascus, see extracts from Arabian writers prefixed to the second part of the third volume of Wilken .-- M.] [Footnote 40: Noradinus (says William of Tyre, l.xx.

33) maximus nominis et fidei Christianae persecutor; princeps tamen justus, vafer, providus' et secundum gentis suae traditiones religiosus.

To this Catholic witness we may add the primate of the Jacobites, (Abulpharag.
p.

267,) quo non alter erat inter reges vitae ratione magis laudabili, aut quae pluribus justitiae experimentis abundaret.

The true praise of kings is after their death, and from the mouth of their enemies.].