CA P. 9. 4 velatao i oftheApocalypfe. 3z; roar Andronius the Elder, This Turkij generation came force ages before from Ármenia ;and the countries that lie next unto Euphrates : Out of which places they did eafily drive theRmans, that hadbeen of longtime before put clean out ofheart, and confumedwithmany calàmities. Now about the beginningof the raign of theElder, An- dronicue Palxlogur, before the yeer t3oo. they fpread th.emfelves over all Afin, unto the effgeanSea. But yet to the intent that they might not break forth from any other place,then from theirappointed bounds and lifts, about that time when the reins weregiven them to range abroad, the Lord drove them again, and bound them to Eu- phrates, through the help of the people called Caraleni. Thefe men did ferve in the wars for pay under a/Indronicus, and hadRonzerius for their Captain ; whole proweffe was fo great, that for fear of them, the Turks fled away,not only from Philadelphia,which at that time they befieged, but even almoff beyond the ancient borders of the Roman Kingdome, as. regoras witneffeth, Book¿, 7. 3. This fear therefore drave them into the countries that are about Euphrates, and did, as it wer , caff fetters upon them for a time. Neither was it a fmall chainunto them, to keep themfrom-raging as they lifted for a while; fo that by reafon that their forceswere divided among ma ny Pi inces, each of them was weaker, apart by themfelves,then that they dutff attempt any great matter. Both thefe impediments were taken away, at the time when this power fpoken (of ht. re was given them. For firíf the Caraleni did not profecute the vico,ry which they had begun, but went away, and returned home a little whileafter. Moreover, about the fame time, namely, about the`yeer 1291. the Chriflîan Princes had loft all that which they had gotten, both in Palefina, and the countries adjoyning, by twelve battels,and which they hadheld in poffeffron for the fpace of 196. yeers; fa that they . were glad toforfake all thofe lands, and to goe every one tohis own habitation. Toconclude, all the no-kith families did fubjec themfelves to thatofthe Ottomans alone, either oftheir own accord, or elfe compelled by force thereto: By means whereof;the Turksbe- ing free from all fear ofenemies at their backs about Euphrates, and having no man before them that could withftand themwith fufficient ftrength, did renew their affault upon the Romans, and did at length utterly overwhelm themwithin a fhort time, like an inundationof waters. Bound at that great River Euphrates : So properly called, being thatfamoùs River Qf 1r seiia, that flows nigh to the Weft fide of Y u ,Mefopota-
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