There issued from him a long line of powerful kings.
One of them, Draco the Great, attained great renown as a man of war.

He was defeated more frequently than the others.

It is by this constancy in defeat that great captains are recognized.

In twenty years he burned down more than a hundred thousand hamlets, market towns, unwalled towns, villages, walled towns, cities, and universities.

He set fire impartially to his enemies' territory and to his own domains.