by the command of the counts. And it was a Sabbath, not having a flight, which one might evangelically pray to avert, but the destruction of so great a city. The things from then on one could not describe, so as to omit nothing; but as many things as can be recounted, we ourselves would boast to be sufficient to record. All the knights outside and the admirals, and consequently those with them, having now cleared away the things fearsome to them and hating to sleep in the open any longer, fearlessly filled the dwellings of the city, the larger ones by individual leaders and those around them, and the smaller ones by certain other squadrons, for whom the lodging was of a suitable size. And from then on they themselves were inside the houses, while the entire citizen body wandered about, among whom were we also. And the barbarian host occupied the furnishings in the houses, but the householders were driven out and wandered here and there, hungry, thirsty, shivering, because they were also naked. And would that they were merely naked, so that they might perhaps even be pitied by those who stripped them; but now, contriving clothing because of the otherwise shameful appearance, they had no pity, as necessity allotted to each, even if unadorned, at least some sort of garment, the kind that one outside of grief, seeing it, would laugh because of its 122 theatricality, while one who had tasted the suffering would not hesitate to die from sorrow. Someone pierced a mat and, putting it on, with difficulty hid his private shame and was content being so covered, fortunate himself in comparison to others, who were satisfied by placing the palm of their hand and their fingers before them like a curtain and hiding what needed to be hidden, having nothing more they could do. And this itself was not a sight worth seeing; but if women also shared in this suffering, why indeed did the sun shine, so as to look upon such things? But he himself had another way to show something good, by turning away those who were insulting them, but the approaching evening did all terrible things, putting forth darkness for concealment and shamelessness. For the day held some modesty in fear of the superiors, but the night gave license to unholy things. There was at that time also someone who, having found a rag cast aside somewhere, perhaps from a sitting woman or otherwise, of the sort with which the main roads are strewn, and having patched many such things together into a seam, as best he could, and having fashioned it in the manner of a loincloth, unwillingly desired the unusual attire. Others, finding and putting on patched pieces of wet wool, covered their belly and back and lower parts, girding themselves with a rotten and dirty rope of linden-bast or some such thing, while the rest of their body, on their very skin, was exposed to the air. To see someone fully clothed was like seeing a king or another man of splendor. For prostitutes alone did the beauty of clothing shine, who were adorned with the sacred vestments, with beautiful borders, accompanying their defiled lovers and, as we watched, brazenly displaying their sin and dancing with them. Oh, the divine forbearance even here! The heads of most were uncovered, the Latins having arranged it so, that we might have a similar appearance. And this those who were able suffered; but for as many as whose heads were not well, but had to be covered because of sickness, seeing them one would become manifold in grief, carried away by the variety of things seen. For the most fortunate were rich enough to wear a monk's felt cap, but most of the others improvised such a covering from weavings of rushes or reeds or straw, many of them perforated at the top like a chimney, some eaten by mold, others by a barbarian's whim, and not a few by design, so that through the hole the cap, like some kind of funnel, might provide a contribution for the thirsty. 124 And all were in such attire, on which for many shone like purple stones wounds made purple with clotted blood, a sight both hard to look at and hard to imagine, on the one hand because they seemed to be certain shadows darting up from the netherworld, on the other because they no longer had their natural features, because the friendly humor, through which blossoms the

ἐπιτάγματος τῶν κομήτων. Ἦν δὲ Σάββατον, οὐ φυγὴν ἔχον, ἣν εὐαγγελικῶς ἀπεύξαιτ' ἄν τις, ἀλλὰ τηλικαύτης πόλεως ὄλεθρον. Τὰ δ' ἐντεῦθεν οὐκ ἂν μέν τις φράσαι, ὡς μηδέν τι ἐλλεῖψαι· ὅσα δέ ἐστιν ἐπιλέξασθαι, αὐχήσωμεν ἂν καὶ αὐτοὶ ἱκανοὶ ἔσεσθαι ἀπογράψασθαι. Πάντες οἱ ἔξω ἱππόται καὶ οἱ ναύαρχοι δέ, ἀκολούθως δὲ καὶ οἱ ἀμφ' αὐτούς, ἀνακαθήραντες ἤδη τὰ σφίσι φοβερὰ καὶ μισήσαντες εἰς πλέον αἰθριοκοιτεῖν, ἔπλησαν ἀδεῶς τὰς οἰκήσεις τῆς πόλεως, τὰς μὲν μείζους κατὰ κεφαλὰς καὶ ὅσοι περὶ αὐτάς, τὰς δὲ ἐλάττους κατά τινας ἴλας ἑτέρας, ὅσαις ἦν σύμμετρον τὸ κατάλυμα. Καὶ τὸ ἐντεῦθεν αὐτοὶ μὲν ἦσαν οἴκων εἴσω, τὸ δὲ πολιτικὸν ἅπαν σύστημα ἐπλάζετο, ἐν οἷς καὶ ἡμεῖς. Καὶ τὸ μὲν βάρβαρον ἐνέμετο τὰς ἐπ' οἴκων ἐνθέσεις, οἱ δὲ οἰκοδεσπόται ἀπελήλαντο καὶ περιενόστουν ὧδε κἀκεῖ πεινῶντες, διψῶντες, ῥιγοῦντες, ὅτι καὶ γυμνοί. Καὶ εἴθε μὲν γυμνοί, ὡς ἄν που καὶ ἐλεοῖντο ἐκ τῶν γυμνωσάντων· νῦν δὲ σοφιζόμενοι τὴν ἔνδυσιν διὰ τὸ ἄλλως κατ' ὄψιν αἰσχρὸν οὐκ εἶχον ἔλεον, οἷα τῆς ἀνάγκης ἑκάστῳ, εἰ καὶ ἄναλλον, ἀλλ' οὖν τινὰ στολὴν ἀφοσιούσης, ὁποίαν ἰδὼν ὁ μὲν ἔξω πένθους γελάσοι ἂν διὰ τὸ 122 σκηνικώτερον, ὁ δὲ συγγεγευμένος τοῦ πάθους οὐκ ἂν ὀκνήσοι μὴ ἐκθανεῖν λυπούμενος. Ἐτρύπησέ τις ψίαθον καὶ περιβαλόμενος ἔκρυπτε μόγις τὴν προσθίαν αἰσχύνην καὶ ἠγάπα οὕτω καλυψάμενος, εὐδαίμων αὐτὸς τῇ πρὸς ἑτέρους παραβολῇ, ὅσοι τὸ κατὰ χεῖρα θέναρ καὶ τὰ δάκτυλα καθά τι παραπέτασμα προθέμενοι καὶ κρύπτοντες ἅπερ ἐχρῆν ἠρκοῦντο, μὴ ἔχοντες ὅ,τι πλέον δράσουσι. Καὶ ἦν μὲν καὶ αὐτὸ οὐ θέας ἄξιον· εἰ δὲ καὶ γυναῖκες τοῦ πάθους ἐκοινώνουν τοῦδε, τί δὴ ἔλαμπεν ἥλιος, ὡς καὶ τοιαῦτα καθορᾶν; Ἀλλ' αὐτὸς μὲν εἶχεν ἄλλως ἐνδείκνυσθαί τι καλόν, ἐκτρέπων τοὺς αὐταῖς ἐνυβρίζοντας, ὁ δὲ ἐπιὼν ἕσπερος πάνδεινα ἐποίει, σκότον προβαλλόμενος εἰς ἀποκρυφὴν καὶ ἀναίδειαν. Ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἡμέρα εἶχέ τι σῶφρον δέει τῶν ὑπερεχόντων, ἡ δὲ νὺξ ἐπαρρησίαζε τὰ μὴ ὅσια. Ἦν τις τότε καὶ ὃς ῥάκος εὑρηκὼς παρερριμμένον που ἀποκαθημένης τυχὸν ἢ καὶ ἀλλοῖον, ὁποίοις πολλοῖς αἱ λεωφόροι κατέστρωνται, καὶ συχνὰ τοιαῦτα συγκεκρουκὼς εἰς ῥαφήν, ὡς εἶχε, καὶ λεντίου τρόπον συσκευασάμενος, ἄκων ἤθελε τὴν ἀσυνήθη περιστολήν. Ἄλλοι συνθέματα ἐρεᾶ μαδῶντα ἐξευρίσκοντες καὶ ἐναπτόμενοι, κοιλίαν μὲν καὶ ῥάχιν καὶ τὰ κατωτέρω ἔσκεπον, σχοίνῳ σαθρᾷ καὶ ῥυπαρᾷ τῇ ἐκ φιλύρας ἢ τοιοῦδέ τινος περιζωσάμενοι, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ ἐν χρῷ κατ' αὐτὴν σάρκα τῷ ἀέρι γινόμενοι. Ἱματισμένον δέ τινα ἰδεῖν τὸ ὅλον ὅμοιον ἦν ὡς εἰ καὶ ῥῆγα εἶδεν ἢ ἄλλον ἄνδρα λαμπρότητος. Πόρναις μόναις ἐνέλαμπε κάλλος ἱματισμοῦ, αἳ τοῖς ἱεροῖς πεπλώμασιν ἠγλαΐζοντο, εὐπάρυφοι τοῖς μιαροῖς ἐρασταῖς παρομαρτοῦσαι καὶ βλεπόντων ἡμῶν παρρησιαζόμεναι τὴν ἁμαρτίαν καὶ συγκαταχορεύουσαι. Ὢ κἀνταῦθα θείας ἀνοχῆς. Αἱ δὲ κεφαλαὶ τοῖς μὲν πλείοσιν ἦσαν ἀκατακάλυπτοι, τῶν Λατίνων οὕτω σκευωρησάντων, ὡς ἂν ἔχοιμεν τὸ ὁμόστολον. Καὶ τοῦτο μὲν οἱ δυνάμενοι ἔπασχον· ὅσοις δὲ τὰ τῆς κεφαλῆς οὐκ εἶχεν ἀπαθῶς, ἀλλ' ἔδει κατακεκαλύφθαι αὐτὰς διὰ τὸ ἄρρωστον, ἀλλ' αὐτοὺς βλέπων τις παντοῖος ἂν τὴν λύπην γένοιτο, τῇ ποικιλίᾳ τῶν βλεπομένων συμπεριαγόμενος. Πῖλον μὲν γὰρ ἀσκητὸν περιτεθεῖσθαι οἱ εὐτυχέστατοι κατεπλούτουν, τῶν δ' ἄλλων οἱ πλείους ψιάθων πλέγματα ἢ σχοίνων ἢ καλάμης ἐσχεδίαζον εἰς τοιαύτην σκέπην, τὰ πολλὰ καὶ διατετρημένα τὴν κορυφὴν κατὰ καπνοδόκην, τὰ μὲν εὐρῶτος καταβοσκησαμένου, τὰ δὲ καὶ κατὰ βαρβαρικὸν ἄθυρμα, οὐκ ὀλίγα δὲ καὶ πρὸς τέχνην, ἵνα διὰ τοῦ τρήματος ὁ πῖλος, οἷα καί τις χώνη τοῖς διψῶσιν ἐνερεύγηται συμβολήν. 124 Καὶ ἦσαν οἱ πάντες ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων στολισμάτων, ὧν πολλοῖς ἐνέλαμπον ὡς οἷά τινες πορφύρεοι λίθοι πληγαὶ πορφύρουσαι τῷ ἐξ αἵματος λύθρῳ, θέαμα καὶ δυσπρόσοπτον καὶ δυσείκαστον, τὸ μὲν οἷς ἐκ νερτέρων ἥκειν ἐδόκουν σκιαί τινες ἀΐσσουσαι, τὸ δ' ὅτι τοὺς κατὰ φύσιν χαρακτῆρας οὐκέτ' εἶχον διὰ τὸ ἔνδον που ἀναχωρῆσαι ἢ καὶ τέλεον ἐκλιπεῖν τὸν φίλιον χυμόν, δι' οὗπερ ἐξανθεῖ τὸ