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seeing him armed for battle. And Marianus, using their own dialect, urged the Latins not to be afraid and not to fight against their co-religionists. But one of the Latins shoots him on the helmet with a tzangra. 10.8.6 The tzangra is a barbarian bow and completely unknown to the Greeks. It is not drawn by the right hand pulling the string and the left hand holding the bow fast, but he who draws this warlike and very far-shooting instrument, as one might say, must lie on his back and press both feet against the half-circles of the bow, and with both hands pull the string back very stoutly. In the middle of this string there is a semi-cylindrical channel attached to the string itself and, having the size of a respectable arrow, it extends from the string to the very middle of the bow; from which all sorts of bolts fly out. The bolts placed in this are very short in length, but very thick and have a formidable weight of iron at the front. And by the release of the string with all violence and force, the bolts, wherever they may fall, do not bounce back, but have pierced a shield and, having cut through a heavy iron corselet, have passed out through the other side. So violent and unstoppable is the release of such bolts. This bolt has already pierced a bronze statue and, having fallen upon the wall of a very large city, either the point of the bolt protruded on the inside or it sank into the middle of the wall and disappeared. The affair of the tzangra is truly a daemonic thing; he who experiences a blow from it dies most wretchedly, without sensation, and without even perceiving how great the blow is. 10.8.7 The bolt from the tzangra, striking the top of the helmet, drove through it and flew away without touching so much as a hair of Marianus; for Providence prevented it. But he, swiftly loosing another arrow against the count, strikes him on the arm; which, having pierced the shield and gone through the scale-armored corselet, even touched his side. And a certain Latin priest, being the thirteenth of those fighting with him, seeing this, standing at the stern, sent many missiles against Marianus. But Marianus did not give in, both fighting furiously himself and exhorting those under him to do so, so that those with the Latin priest were replaced three times, being wounded and exhausted. And the priest himself, though he had received many wounds and was drenched in his own blood, was nevertheless fearless. 10.8.8 For our decisions concerning consecrated persons are not the same as those of the Latins; but we are commanded by the canons and laws and the evangelical doctrine: "Do not touch, do not grumble, do not handle; for you are a consecrated person." But the barbarian Latin both handles the divine things and places the shield on his left arm and holds the spear in his right hand, and at the same time he both administers the divine body and blood and sees slaughter and becomes a man of blood according to the Davidic psalm. Thus is this barbarian race no less priestly than warlike. This doer, therefore, rather than priest, at the same time both donned the priestly vestment and handled the oar and looked to naval war and battle, fighting at the same time both the sea and men. For our ways, as I have already said, derive from... Aaron and Moses and our own first high priest. 10.8.9 But as the battle raged fiercely from evening itself until the middle of the following day, the Latins yielded, even though they did not wish to, to Marianus, having asked for and received from him terms of quarter. But that most warlike priest did not cease from battle even when the peace treaty was being made, but having emptied his quiver of arrows, taking up a handheld stone

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ἐξωπλισμένον πρὸς μάχην θεασάμενοι. Ὁ δὲ Μαρια νὸς τοῖς Λατίνοις τῇ ἐκείνων ἀποχρώμενος διαλέκτῳ παρε κελεύετο μὴ δεδιέναι μηδὲ μάχεσθαι πρὸς ὁμοπίστους. Βάλλει δέ τις τοῦτον τῶν Λατίνων διὰ τῆς τζάγγρας κατὰ τῆς κόρυθος. 10.8.6 Ἡ δὲ τζάγγρα τόξον μέν ἐστι βαρβα ρικὸν καὶ Ἕλλησι παντελῶς ἀγνοούμενον. Τείνεται δὲ οὐχὶ τῆς μὲν δεξιᾶς ἑλκούσης τὴν νευράν, τῆς δὲ λαιᾶς ἀνθελκούσης τὸ τόξον, ἀλλὰ δεῖ τὸν διατείνοντα τὸ ὄργανον τουτὶ τὸ πολεμικὸν καὶ ἑκηβολώτατον, ὡς ἄν τις εἴποι, ὕπτιον κείμενον ἑκάτερον μὲν τῶν ποδῶν ἐνερεῖσαι τοῖς ἡμικυκλίοις τοῦ τόξου, ἀμφοτέραις δὲ ταῖς χερσὶ τὴν νευ ρὰν μάλα γενναίως ἀνθελκύσαι. Ἧς κατὰ τὸ μέσον σωλήν ἐστι κυλινδρικὸν ἡμίτομον ἐξημμένον αὐτῆς τῆς νευρᾶς καὶ ὥσπερ τι βέλος ἀξιόλογον μέγεθος ἀπολαμβάνον διήκει ἀπ' αὐτῆς τῆς νευρᾶς ἐς τὸ τοῦ τόξου μεσαίτατον· ἀφ' οὗ βέλη παντοδαπὰ διεκπίπτουσιν. Ἐν τούτῳ τοίνυν τὰ βέλη τιθέμενα βραχύτατα μὲν τῷ μήκει, παχύτατα δὲ καὶ πρόσ θεν ἀξιόμαχον βάρος σιδήρου λαμβάνοντα. Καὶ τῇ ἀφέσει τῆς νευρᾶς μετὰ σφοδρότητος καὶ ῥύμης ἁπάσης ἀφιείσης τὰ βέλεμνα οὗ ἂν τύχῃ ἐπεισπεσόντα οὐκ εἰς τοὔμπαλιν ἀποπίπτει, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀσπίδα διέτρησε καὶ θώρακα βαρυσί δηρον διατεμόντα ἐκεῖθεν διὰ θατέρου μέρους ἐξεπετάσθη. Οὕτως ἐστὶ σφοδρὰ καὶ ἀκατάσχετος ἡ ἄφεσις τῶν τοιού των βελῶν. Ἤδη τοῦτο τὸ βέλος καὶ ἀνδριάντα διεπερό νησε χαλκοῦν καὶ τείχει ἐμπεπτωκὸς μεγίστης πόλεως ἢ ἐπὶ τἄνδον προὔκυψε τοῦ βέλους ἡ ἀκμὴ ἢ ἐνδεδυκὸς κατὰ τὸ μέσον τοῦ τείχους ἀφανὲς γέγονε. Τὸ μὲν οὖν τῆς τζάγ γρας πρᾶγμα τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν ὡς ὄντως δαιμόνιον· ὁ δὲ πει ρασθεὶς τῆς ἐκ τούτου πληγῆς ἀθλιώτατος ἀναισθήτως ἀποθνήσκων καὶ μηδὲ τῆς πληγῆς, ὁπόση τίς ἐστιν, αἰσθα νόμενος. 10.8.7 Τὸ μὲν οὖν ἀπὸ τῆς τζάγγρας βέλος ἐμπεσὸν τῷ ἄκρῳ τῆς κόρυθος διήλασεν αὐτὴν ἀποπτὰν οὐδ' ἄχρι τριχὸς τοῦ Μαριανοῦ ἐφαψάμενον· πρόνοια γὰρ ἀπεῖρξεν. Ὁ δὲ γοργῶς ἄλλον κατὰ τοῦ κόμητος ἐπαφεὶς ὀϊστὸν πλήττει τοῦτον κατὰ τοῦ βραχίονος· ὃς τὴν ἀσπίδα δια τρήσας τόν τε φολιδωτὸν διεληλυθὼς θώρακα καὶ αὐτῆς ἥψατο τῆς πλευρᾶς. Ἱερεὺς δέ τις Λατῖνος τρισκαιδέκα τος τυγχάνων τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ μαχομένων τοῦτο θεασάμενος πρυμνόθεν ἱστάμενος πολλὰς βολίδας κατὰ τοῦ Μαριανοῦ ἐξέπεμψεν. Ἀλλ' οὐδ' ὁ Μαριανὸς ἐνεδίδου αὐτός τε ἐκθύ μως μαχόμενος καὶ τοῖς ὑπ' αὐτὸν τοῦτο παρακελευόμενος, ὡς τρισσάκις τοὺς μετὰ τοῦ Λατίνου ἱερέως ὑπαλλαχθῆναι τιτρωσκομένους τε καὶ κοπιῶντας. Καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ ἱερεύς, κἂν πολλὰς τὰς πληγὰς δεδεγμένος ἦν καὶ τῷ ἰδίῳ αἵματι περιρρεόμενος, ἀλλ' ὅμως ἄτρεστος ἦν. 10.8.8 Οὐ γὰρ κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ ἡμῖν τε καὶ τοῖς Λατίνοις περὶ τῶν ἱερωμένων δέδοκται· ἀλλ' ἡμεῖς μὲν ἐντετάλμεθα παρά τε τῶν κανό νων καὶ νόμων καὶ τοῦ εὐαγγελικοῦ δόγματος· «Μὴ θίξῃς, μὴ γρύξῃς, μὴ ἅψῃ· ἱερωμένος γὰρ εἶ». Ὁ δέ τοι βάρβα ρος Λατῖνος ἅμα τε τὰ θεῖα μεταχειριεῖται καὶ τὴν ἀσπίδα ἐπὶ τοῦ λαιοῦ θέμενος καὶ τὸ δόρυ τῇ δεξιᾷ ἐναγκαλισά μενος ὁμοῦ τε μεταδίδωσι τοῦ θείου σώματός τε καὶ αἵμα τος καὶ φόνιον ὁρᾷ καὶ αἱμάτων ἀνὴρ κατὰ τὸν ∆αυιτικὸν ψαλμὸν γίνεται. Οὕτως ἐστὶ τὸ βάρβαρον τοῦτο γένος οὐχ ἧττον ἱερατικὸν ἢ φιλοπόλεμον. Οὗτος τοίνυν ὁ ῥέκτης μᾶλλον ἢ ἱερεὺς ὁμοῦ τε καὶ τὴν ἱερατικὴν στολὴν ἐνεδι δύσκετο καὶ τὴν κώπην μετεχειρίζετο καὶ πρὸς ναυτικὸν πόλεμον καὶ μάχην ἀφώρα κατὰ ταὐτὸν καὶ θαλάττῃ καὶ ἀνδράσι μαχόμενος. Τὰ γὰρ ἡμέτερα, καθάπερ ἔφθην εἰρηκυῖα, τῆς ... Ἀαρὼν καὶ Μωσέως καὶ τοῦ καθ' ἡμᾶς πρώτου ἀρχιερέως ἐξήρτηται. 10.8.9 Ἀλλὰ τῆς μάχης ἐξ ἑσπέρας αὐτῆς μέχρι μέσης τῆς ἐπιφαινούσης ἡμέρας καρτερᾶς γεγονυίας ὑπείκουσι κἂν μὴ ἐβούλοντο οἱ Λατῖνοι τῷ Μαριανῷ λόγον ἀπαθείας ἐξ αὐτοῦ αἰτησάμενοι καὶ τυχόντες. Ὁ δέ γε μαχιμώτατος ἱερεὺς ἐκεῖνος οὐδὲ τῶν εἰρηνικῶν σπονδῶν τελουμένων τῆς μάχης ἐπέπαυτο, ἀλλὰ τὸν γωρυτὸν βελῶν ἐκκενώσας χερμάδα ἀναλαβόμενος λίθον